Indianapolis chicken wranglin'

There are no ordinances about keeping chickens in Indianapolis.

Michael “Mick” Armbruster and Jay Lee have raised chickens in their backyard in the Meridian Kessler area of Indianapolis for the last 10 years. Armbruster, the chief poultry wrangler of the two, raised chickens as a child in New Mexico.

“I do it now for the same reasons I did it then: the satisfaction of producing your own food and the pleasure of caring for these beautiful creatures,” he says of the five hens and a rooster that reside with the couple.