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When I was growing up in Southwest West Washington my mother only had about 10 laying hens and I don't even think she had a rooster. This was in the 1950s. Many people only had a hand full of laying hens and that was just fine with them. Even during my early days of 4 H I did not have thirty total birds. How in the heck can they thing those silly people in Power in Olympia that a child who wants to show a fiew bi9rds can average a minimum of 30 t0tal birds. I know only a hand full of people have this inspector come to their home to check their birds. but here is the rub. Can you imagine a mom ordering a $2,000 chicken house and having it set up on their back yard she gets 10 Chicken Egger pullets from the City Feed store has them in the pen and then this Chicken police inspector finds out she has only ten and says you have to have them inspected and if you don't have at least 30 you got to get rid of them or me and my boys are coming to kill all of them by this Friday afternoon. What is theirs world coming to.
My inspector who has been testing my birds for at least ten years is responsible for this section of my state or Baldwin County Alabama. She lives in Montgomery area and comes to our homes to check our chickens. In my county that is 100 miles long and 50 miles wide there are only maybe six of us she checks per year. Yet there are hundreds of us with back yard chickens. I am the only one in my feed store of maybe 100 customers who buy chicken feed who has this service done on.
Why does Washington State need to be in our lives and tell folks like you this is how it has to be is it because you need this paper work to ship eggs or chicks to people? What about the folks who just want ten R I Reds the H ones for pets?
I am glad I dont live there anymore. What happens if you live like many do that I have communicated with on this tread who cant have roosters or the people in their subdivision says they can have 12 birds but no roosters because of the noise factor.
Well lets get back to chickens. Ice Landers you keep as many as you can. Then get you some big old fat Rhode Island Reds or What ever the top breed you want and hand full of young birds that you can keep and raise that are old enough to rate in the 30 birds that they have to touch every 90 days.
If you cannot transport ten birds from Cousin Ricky's house back and forth to your house five miles away and they are your birds Then I dont know what to think.
What you said about this and you would like to live somewhere else shows the freedoms we dont have any more in this country and how in a flick of a eye these people who are in power could put us right out of our hobby. Heck when I was living in a Apartment complex in Tenn I was going to have four Red Bantam females in a pen on my porch as pets. What if Walt sent me six Seroumas in cages and I had them in my house or on the porch of my apartment. They would say you cant have five Seromu they have to be at minimum of 30 that's the law.
O boy let me get back to my kitchen table and look for some pills to take. I got some more glue but its wooden glue. I am going to make three 7 1/2 pens by 3 feet wide in my 9d large fowl 8x8 breeding pens to put my bantam bre3ders in. I am going to divide it in half with a wall of rabbit wire and put one hen in each pen. This will give me 8 little pens to rotate the male to each female. Then I am going to make a 2x2 foot divider between the whole pen with a gate and put a female in catch one of these on tthree pens. This will give me a total 12 pens ten which will have a female and two empty to let a male rest one day then rotate him to the pens of then females. I plan to toe punch each egg and wing band them as I go along. In the other 8x8 pen I am going to have nest made out of milk crates that are sold at wall mart about six of them I will have ten eater egg dummy eggs in each one paited brown and in there I will have five silikie pullets and three buff Brahma female hens and hope they will go broody on me then after they do put the good eggs under them and leave them under them till the 19 th day and then put them in a Hatcher to hatch the eggs in pedigree baskets. Somewhere a person said they are going to buy fronts for trap nesting. This is how I am going to do it with my R I Red bantams. I just hope I dont hatch and raise any Red Rock bantams as if I do the meat cleaver is coming out.
So glad you wrote you story. This should make many of you think how lucky we are that we have the freedom to have chickens without the Police inspectors coming around and telling us what we can and can not do.
Now the question to the fellow who inspects peoples cichens who is a breeder and maybe goes to a chicken show now and then. Is it required by the law in your state that you have to have someone like you come to thier home if they have a backyard lot of bantams or laying hens ?????
Off to bed to count goats. By the way I went to Cheryl Cohen's web site in Calif and she no longer has the line of Silver Penciled Rocks that where pictured on the Plymouth Rock Thread. Where did those birds end up at?
My inspector who has been testing my birds for at least ten years is responsible for this section of my state or Baldwin County Alabama. She lives in Montgomery area and comes to our homes to check our chickens. In my county that is 100 miles long and 50 miles wide there are only maybe six of us she checks per year. Yet there are hundreds of us with back yard chickens. I am the only one in my feed store of maybe 100 customers who buy chicken feed who has this service done on.
Why does Washington State need to be in our lives and tell folks like you this is how it has to be is it because you need this paper work to ship eggs or chicks to people? What about the folks who just want ten R I Reds the H ones for pets?
I am glad I dont live there anymore. What happens if you live like many do that I have communicated with on this tread who cant have roosters or the people in their subdivision says they can have 12 birds but no roosters because of the noise factor.
Well lets get back to chickens. Ice Landers you keep as many as you can. Then get you some big old fat Rhode Island Reds or What ever the top breed you want and hand full of young birds that you can keep and raise that are old enough to rate in the 30 birds that they have to touch every 90 days.
If you cannot transport ten birds from Cousin Ricky's house back and forth to your house five miles away and they are your birds Then I dont know what to think.
What you said about this and you would like to live somewhere else shows the freedoms we dont have any more in this country and how in a flick of a eye these people who are in power could put us right out of our hobby. Heck when I was living in a Apartment complex in Tenn I was going to have four Red Bantam females in a pen on my porch as pets. What if Walt sent me six Seroumas in cages and I had them in my house or on the porch of my apartment. They would say you cant have five Seromu they have to be at minimum of 30 that's the law.
O boy let me get back to my kitchen table and look for some pills to take. I got some more glue but its wooden glue. I am going to make three 7 1/2 pens by 3 feet wide in my 9d large fowl 8x8 breeding pens to put my bantam bre3ders in. I am going to divide it in half with a wall of rabbit wire and put one hen in each pen. This will give me 8 little pens to rotate the male to each female. Then I am going to make a 2x2 foot divider between the whole pen with a gate and put a female in catch one of these on tthree pens. This will give me a total 12 pens ten which will have a female and two empty to let a male rest one day then rotate him to the pens of then females. I plan to toe punch each egg and wing band them as I go along. In the other 8x8 pen I am going to have nest made out of milk crates that are sold at wall mart about six of them I will have ten eater egg dummy eggs in each one paited brown and in there I will have five silikie pullets and three buff Brahma female hens and hope they will go broody on me then after they do put the good eggs under them and leave them under them till the 19 th day and then put them in a Hatcher to hatch the eggs in pedigree baskets. Somewhere a person said they are going to buy fronts for trap nesting. This is how I am going to do it with my R I Red bantams. I just hope I dont hatch and raise any Red Rock bantams as if I do the meat cleaver is coming out.
So glad you wrote you story. This should make many of you think how lucky we are that we have the freedom to have chickens without the Police inspectors coming around and telling us what we can and can not do.
Now the question to the fellow who inspects peoples cichens who is a breeder and maybe goes to a chicken show now and then. Is it required by the law in your state that you have to have someone like you come to thier home if they have a backyard lot of bantams or laying hens ?????
Off to bed to count goats. By the way I went to Cheryl Cohen's web site in Calif and she no longer has the line of Silver Penciled Rocks that where pictured on the Plymouth Rock Thread. Where did those birds end up at?
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