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Blue Springs residents will soon be able to legally raise chickens and ducks in their backyards under a new city ordinance that takes effect September 16.

After years of debate, the Blue Springs City Council passed the ordinance in May, allowing residents in single-family homes to own up to six hens or ducks. The city will require permits to track compliance with the new regulations.

"I think the biggest misconception is that if anybody has had backyard hens in the past or has them now that they're going to automatically be denied because they didn't get a permit or had them before they were legal and that's not the case. This is a kind of starting fresh," Mike Mallon said, the senior director of city development for Blue Springs.

The permit applicatio

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