Families wait for city to consider cracking cap on chicken coops

The chickens have not come home to roost in the Dupuis family’s backyard.
The family applied to join the city’s urban hen program last May and spent the summer constructing a coop. But Andrea Dupuis said Friday they’re still on a waiting list, and that it will likely be quite some time before there’s room in the program.
“It’s kind of disheartening,” she said.
The urban hen program is capped at 50 sites across the city, and there are currently 12 applica