BUTTE — Some Butte residents and their backyard chickens are looking forward to the passage of an ordinance that is still moving through the process of approval to allow for backyard chickens to be kept here in The Mining City.

"I was expecting the prairie blue bells to be laying blue eggs. It’s seeming like they’re laying brown, but I am still getting one blue egg, and I don’t know who it’s coming from," says Garrity Heir.

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Heir owns nine chickens that make up a variety of breeds. Earlier this year she was told by animal control that her birds were not legal under the current Butte-Silver Bow County ordinance.

Since Spring, Heir has been on a mission to change the law.

"Animal Services has put together a rough draft of what they think would be sensible for a foul ordinance," says

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