Fighting the Good Fight for BYCs! - Page 3

So many people want to live in completely sterile conditions. We moved onto an acre+ in an unincorporated rural neighborhood. Took a couple of years for all the pesticides used by the previous owners to wear off. Now we have lizards and frogs and little snakes that we enjoy, and are not impacted at all by the obvious increase in their food supply. I think all the sterility will ultimately weaken us.

 

Fingers crossed for future hearing. At least there's still a chance!

Sounds like the trustees need a field trip--know a few people ( being legal) where  they can see there set-up?

 My husband worked in a layer house growing up-- I almost never talked him into having chickens. I did my home work, built the temporary coop to cut down on smells and manure by adding Sweet PDZ poop boards--he was amazed at the difference to what he had known.

Edited by amenfarm - 7/24/12 at 11:48am

I'd rather have 'chicken poop smell' verses 'dog poop smell any day....just goes to show ya "can't fix stupid".  Sounds like you got quite the fight in front of you.

Ew, same here. When we lived on base and it would rain, everything stunk like dog poo, because people were to lazy to clean it up. If you're cleaning up there is no smell...no poop, no smell. Especially if they did a 3-5 bird limit, it would take a lot of not cleaning up for that few of birds to smell.

Chickens are some of the most frequently misunderstood of the animals you can keep. People get this misconception that chickens are dirty, stinky, evil, disease ridden little feathery rats and this is simply the incredibly shallow, narrow-minded talk of the fear-stricken public, brainwashed by the media that sensationalizes every little thing.

 

The truth is, well cared for chickens can be excellent animals for even small backyards. My three hens are sweet, healthy, beautiful creatures and they have brought me only joy, eggs, and I don't even mind cleaning the coop every once in a while. Sure they escape sometimes or get into the neighbors yard sometimes, but it's not like I'm a bad person for that. They didn't burn the town or murder the neighborhood, did they?!?!

 

They are the complete opposite of the public's image of chickens. I am sickened by the way the commercial egg farms treat their laying hens. They are kept in tiny cages with thousands of chickens in huge buildings. The smell must be completely disgusting and the air made mostly of ammonia and dust and mold. The hens are debeaked, which means the tip of their top beak is removed to discourage pecking. They are driven to insanity by the small quarters and awful conditions. They peck each other to death and the dead are often left to rot because no one comes to collect the bodies.

 

Us small flock owners take good care of our flocks. Those who don't care for them or have cockfights are the scum of chicken society, and the commercial egg farms are the manipulative corporations.

 

My point is, make sure everyone has their facts right when they vote. I wish I could live out in the country and have a larger flock, but I can't do that right now. I hate having other people decide what I can and can't do.

 

Good luck on your fight for rights, and welcome to BYC!!!

 

 

 

Since most people have a great disdain for commercial chicken operations, I tell them that I'm doing my part to eliminate the need for them, "one small backyard chicken coop at a time", and then I ask them what they are doing about it.......cause if you're buying from the store, you're supporting them.....

good luck hope u guys win and where are u guys live

They need to see chickens in person! They are so fun to watch! I sometimes go down to my coop and just sit there to let myself unwind. You should tell them to join BYC. They could ask questions and see what other people think about them. Show them some chicks, that would change their mind in a heartbeat. Hope you can change some minds! :)