Phoenix zoning ordinances allow chickens so long as the size of your residential lot is 10,000 square feet or more.  That leaves most of us out.  Things in Albuquerque look much better for those inclined to raise chickens.

Accoring to this article, Albuquerque City Ordinances allow up to 15 chickens and one rooster in a household.

“We definitely have more than most cities, but New York City doesn’t have a regulation on the number; you can keep as many as you want,” said UNM graduate student KT LaBadie, who started the Urban Chickens project in Albuquerque in 2007.

Click Here to read more.