City passed chicken ordinance (YAY!) but HOA says no

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Egghead_Jr said:
The HOA rules trump the town ordinance. Nothing the town does has any effect on your HOA contract. Read your contract carefully, what they allow, what the fines and procedures are if in violation and anything else that's in your contract about the HOA rules and enforcement of them.

Towns, counties and states have a hierarchy but an HOA agreement is a contract you entered into when purchasing the house. There is procedure to change them, will be in your contract. Or you can ignore them but I'd think you'd want to know what their enforcement is first.
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We have neighbors 2 doors down with chickens and now we have a rat in our home. We have NEVER before had a problem with rats. The exterminator (Orkin) says that chicken feed attracts rats and that the issue is very common now that more municipalities allow chickens.
 
It depends on whether they enforce their HOA's. I have chickens, and have had roosters here for 20 years. then my neighbor decided he didn't like my rooster, and they changed the HOA to you can have chickens, but no roosters. I have had roosters still, and others do also. The HOA doesn't enforce anything though. I have been more careful and keep the noise of the roosters down by keeping them enclosed till about 10 am, and putting the rooster away, before my neighbor's wife come home for work, so she could have it quiet in the evenings. We have not had any complaints since. I have had neighbors with roosters, where I got the blame because they could see my coop and not theirs. If I was to do anything different, I would build my coop where people could not see it from the road.
 
lynnesmith2005 said:
We have neighbors 2 doors down with chickens and now we have a rat in our home. We have NEVER before had a problem with rats. The exterminator (Orkin) says that chicken feed attracts rats and that the issue is very common now that more municipalities allow chickens.
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Do you have chicken feed in your house?
 

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