Raising chickens is illegal in Detroit.

Is it worth the risk!?!
Why break the law when you don't need to?
Speeding to take your in-labor wife to the hospital, widely acknowledge as an extenuating circumstance.
Making extensive plans for days and weeks to commit a crime when you can already afford chicken?

Put your efforts into something legal and beneficial to your community.
Help bring the food of your choice to market by opening a booth inside your neighborhood grocery.
Or help raise the money to renovate the grocery deli counter and split the resulting sales.
Or have a community meeting with the grocery expressing support for fresh natural/organic meats to be sold at the deli counter.
Or if you really want chickens get together with the criminals raising chickens and ask city council to create a tax revenue generating permit.

I'm in Detroit, so I do what I wanna do!