Media Crows About Town's Cock-a-Doodle-Don't Rules

NJ town famous over trying to legislate how often hens and roosters can mate

Hopewell Township, N.J. has provided jokes and puns galore for savvy headline writers and talk show hosts around the world .

Why? Because the town wants to limits date nights in the henhouse due to all of the “clucking” that ensues.

Media outlets from the Wall Street Journal to the French press are finding humor in the New Jersey town’s consideration of an ordinance to regulate how often a rooster can “roll in the hay” (as it was called on Live! with Regis & Kelly) with the hens each year, reports the Times of Trenton.

Roosters would only be allowed 10 conjugal visits a year to the henhouse, if that rooster lived on a property less than five acres.

The purpose is to keep the noise level down in the suburban town with farming roots.

But even some town officials have been getting in on the jokes.

"We've been pecking at this for quite some time," Mayor Jim Burd told the Wall Street Journal. "Don't egg us on, please."

The proposal is set for a final vote in April. We’ll see how henpecked town officials get as the jokes just keep on coming.

Hope they don't chicken out?
 

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