Posts by valereee

Animal rights groups are starting a new campaign against backyard chickens  -- advocating that supporters in towns that are considering changing chicken ordinances write letters to the editor and contact their goverment reps to...

If your neighboring towns can have chickens and aren't having problems with them, that's a good argument to make.  Quote:Originally Posted by onecent Quote:Originally Posted by Joz What town?  Look here to find your...

There are numerous online databases of local ordinances.  Here are a few: amlegal.com, findlaw.com, municode.com, bpcnet.com/codes.htmAlso, if your town has a website, often you can find a link to your ordinances there.  If...

Interesting -- I'm in the Ohio River valley.  We know about histo, and the way most of us who are informed of the dangers handle it is to make sure someone other than pregnant women are handling cat boxes.  I guess that would...

In our town, what they did was CRIMINALIZE the keeping of chickens.  Since it was a new crime rather than a zoning code change, no one was grandfathered in.  I suspect they did this because they thought no one had chickens, and...

My only thought is that we've got a database like this up in my local chicken-keeping group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cincinnatibackyardchickens/database ) just for our area (Hamilton County OH -- which has probably 40 different...

The 'grandfathering' probably means that people who had chickens in 1976 are still allowed to but no one who didn't have chickens then would have been allowed to.  Don't wait for people to call you back.  Find the ordinances...

First, figure out what the laws are.  Call your county government office and ask whoever answers the phone where you can search the ordinances -- if it's online, search it for references to animals, livestock, chickens, poultry,...

BigChickenMan, thanks!  I actually just saw this happening and couldn't let it go.  I have an unfortunate tendency when I see something that needs doing to believe that I'M the one who needs to get it done!    I'd...

NiftyChicken, I'm thinking maybe a sticky that won't accept comments.  People could submit such documents, and admins could put them into the sticky?  Maybe several stickies -- one for 'steps in the process,' one each for any...