Ottawa Bylaw tells Orleans family to rehome their backyard chickens

Ottawa Bylaw has told an Orléans family to find a new home for their backyard chickens.

Ottawa Bylaw has told an Ottawa family to find a new home for their backyard chickens.

For Crystal Lurk and her family, backyard chickens are pets and a source of food.

"A lot of people in the community get eggs from us and our family gets eggs also," she told CTV News Ottawa. "We get pretty close to seven (eggs) a day."

But the chickens can no longer be kept in her suburban backyard in Orléans after a visit from Ottawa Bylaw last November.

"They came by and told us that we have to rehome them," she said.

Backyard chickens are not allowed in Ottawa.

Lurk said she wasn't surprised to see bylaw visit.