Paul J Shanley 
The Chickens & the City Council of San Juan Bautista [EPUB ebook] 

In 2006. the City of San Juan Bautista, California, passed a law against feeding wild chickens. A tourist from Maine, and a rooster named SIR, decide that the City Council»s law is wrong, oppressive, and trivial. In an act of Civil Disobedience, they and the other chickens in town band together to disobey the City Council»s law and get the tourists and the free food they give the chickens back again.This novel is their story.