This is what happens in the modern world to people who have too much time on their hands and too little actual grey matter between their ears. Their focus on chickens will someday extend to cockroaches, flies and mosquitos. We will have to euthanize the bugs before we raid them.
A few years ago, the legislators from my area ( a big cotton growing area) introduced boll weevil eradication legislation (the boll weevil wiped out cotton production in east Texas decades ago, that's why it's now grown here). I don't have documentation, but I heard some of the pointy-headed Austin type legislators had a problem with the word "eradication". The animal has no predators that I know of and eats only cotton bolls.
They've already tried legal means to put an end to beekeeping because, they say, it is cruel to the bees. Funny thing is, the bees usually get the best of me.