Commercial is engaging in something to make a profit. To raise far more birds than you need for personal consumption to sell is a commercial enterprise. I'm not a fan of HOA's but if I lived in one and recently voted to allow people to raise some birds for their own egg and meat consumption would be beside myself that a neighbor took liberty to raise 100 birds. It wouldn't surprise me if they voted to revoke that recent gift to raise livestock in a few months. A person can raise 2 or 3 batches of meat birds from spring to fall. There was no need to get your weekly chicken dinner all at once. 40 laying birds is not personal consumption. Conservative estimate of 200 eggs a week is a commercial enterprise. That's not selling a few extra, that's starting a business or simply flaunting the new freedom of livestock to those that graciously voted to allow them in a reckless manner that will ruin it for those that wanted to raise a few livestock responsibly.
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