Avery Street is an otherwise quiet residential strip in northwest Rochester. Children play basketball in the road. Family cookouts leave the scent of barbecue lingering in the air. And neighbors are on a first-name basis.
But for months now, a “filthy, roaming” band of roosters, hens and chicks have plagued the neighborhood, residents say. The fowl wander from yard to yard, leaving a trail of feces and eggs in their wake. The birds allegedly chase the local children and sometimes become the unfortunate victims of murderous raccoons.
“Nobody seemed to ever know what to do or how to enforce filthy, roaming chickens,” said neighbor Cora Murphy…