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I have a chunky buff Brahama maybe six years old, still laying, but her eyes are getting very squinty and somewhat sunken. Her crop is full (she can find the pellets) but her pecking accuracy is diminishing. If this continues she will be blind. Any ideas?

Can't help with an actual template, but you are welcome to look at our Sarasota ordinance. In addition, our tips for changing laws contains references to documentation materials used in other communities. Most of the work was already done for us.

I hope this helps http://sarasotacluck.blogspot.com/p/tips-to-legalize-chickens.html

http://sarasotacluck.blogspot.com/p/tips-to-legalize-chickens.html

Here's a link to Coconut Creek Code of Ordinances pertaining to animals http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=10928 If that is helpful, check out our new guide to busted birds and let me know what you think. My chickens busted by code enforcement, What do I do now?

That's what I'm thinking... I can find all sorts of websites that list camphor as toxic, but I also see songbirds gorge on the seeds/fruit and they're not falling out of the sky around here.

We have some mid-sized camphor trees (Cinnamomum camphora) here in our backyard in Florida -- right where our chickens would be free-ranging. Anyone know if this will be a problem?

The Commissioners of the City of Sarasota, Florida voted unanimously to allow backyard chickens after a difficult 18 month campaign. The new ordinance will go into effect after second reading and final adoption. Chicken advocates working in other communities are welcome to mine our blog for...

We've developed a list of 20 "Funky Chicken Facts" that we are handing out at events. These facts (with links to sources) include intriguing generic chicken facts, but also include four facts specific to our campaign to re-legalize hens. These four deal with noise, code complaints in the City...

I would encourage you to resist the unstated, implicit standard (no noise can leave your property) and instead compare the egg-laying cackle to occasional barking or cat fights. A neighborhood is not a place of silence, but rather one of noises we don't control. Our noise ordinance says...

Thanks for your suggestion of pushing the City Manager to fulfill obligations. That's one route we considered but ultimately rejected. One one reads the wording (see below), it becomes clear that this is not really a solution. To start with it has to be for a "specified limited period of time"...

The LORE map indicates chickens are legal in the City of Sarasota. That's theoretically true, but as a practical matter people with chickens are subject to a fifty dollar a day fine. The City Manager or his designee can issue a permit, but it can only be temporary and there apparently needs to...

I'm a believer in the guillotine style door. Ours slid up and down in simple wooden guide tracks and the bottom settled in a slot so that no animal could get a nose under it. Since it was relatively heavy and smooth, nothing could lift it from the outside. We hooked the top to a pair of pulleys...

Go to the Sarasota CLUCK blog to see the proposed wording that would make chickens legal in the City of Sarasota. http://sarasotacluck.blogspot.com/2010/11/wording-of-proposed-residential-urban.html

We're finally going to the Planning Board November 29th. Here's how you can help: 1) If you know someone in the City of Sarasota Florida who is likely to be supportive have them contact us ([email protected]) 2) You show support by joining our Facebook Group ...