The Hampton City Council spent its Thursday workshop reviewing its city code related to allowing chickens within city limits. Topics discussed included property size requirements, coop and chicken-run dimensions, fencing, limiting ownership to hens only, maximum flock size, egg sales, property inspections, and prohibiting chickens at properties with a nuisance conviction in the past year.
Chicken owners Butch and Jennifer Gruelke and Sarah Kolb attended the workshop and gave their input on what they would like to see in a possible ordinance.
The council agreed to continue the discussion at its next workshop on December 8th, giving members additional time to research possible provisions for a proposed ordinance before it is reviewed by an attorney.
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November 20th 2025 workshop-minutes
