Woman wants to make backyard chickens legal in Butte city limits

Woman wants to make backyard chickens legal in Butte city limits

At the base of a massive conifer located between a home and garage on a quiet lot on Butte's lower west side, Lucille, an Italian leghorn chicken, darts around a large fenced space with eight other hens as they look for food.Lucille's owner crouches to feed the flock a mixture of breakfast cereal that has expired and is no longer fit for human consumption.Garrity Heier lets them peck the oats from her hands.Heier is trying to make a Butte-Silver…