Recent content by jakedaniel

The “Greatest Generation” usually refers to the generation of Americans who came of age during the Depression and WW2. You’re referring to THEIR kids, the “Baby Boomers”. All these terms are subjective anyway, but what I’d say is that protesting the Vietnam War is a bit different from and a...

They’re really cheap where I live, every now and then one of our local grocery stores gives them away to get folks into the store. That’s not too often though and even though they’re cheap as dirt right now I prefer to get them from my hens. Who knows what disaster will blow up the supply...

Let this be a lesson to everyone who has backyard chickens in-compliance with local laws/ordinances. If you’ve got them, KEEP THEM, and make sure to check back periodically in case ordinances have been changed so you can have the fight over being “grandfathered” right then instead of years...

Clermont County? Off-topic but ever run into this guy at church or a Country Club or maybe Pompilio’s? He was a big wheel in Clermont County, (according to him), before his bust.

Well, you’re talking about a very rural area. There are only 1k people living in the City of Barnsdall and only 40k in all of Osage County. Step one would be to take a look at the EXACT location of where you’re going to be living there. Are you going to be within Barnsdall City Limits or...

Nice to see a fellow Baytonian on here!

I stand corrected. Glad someone in here with better knowledge of the specifics here chimed in. Sorry to hear that they're that restrictive there.

You’re all good. Tell your neighbor, (nicely, of course), to call Code Enforcement if they feel so strongly about it, and when CE arrives, just show them a copy of this ordinance if they don’t already have it and let them tell your neighbor to pound sand. The 10k sq foot requirement is for...

I don’t know about Houston but I can tell you that in Baytown, (just outside of Houston), the setback restrictions were recently doubled to 200’ which outlaws chickens for 99.9% of residents, (though they DID agree that I was grandfathered without putting up too much of a fight over it). What...

Define “know”. How do you “know” that you are required to do anything? Were you told by someone? If so, then what authority do they have to demand anything of you? Furthermore, if they require something of you then they ought to at least be able to define that thing and let you know how...

Like Greg Abbott or anyone else in the Capitol Bldg can do anything about this. This is an absolutely unprecedented event, like a lot of other recent events. I was telling my sister-in-law just yesterday that the linemen down here know all about working in the rain but they don’t know a damn...

That’s how the City verified my claim that I had my coop in before they changed the ordinance. They sent me back a recent overhead shot of my lot and asked me to confirm my coop in the shot. I then asked them to draw an outline of the area of my backyard that complied with the old ordinance so...

The answer is “it depends”. The ordinance states “75 ft from any other residence”. It doesn’t include your residence in that so it can be closer than 75 feet from YOUR house AND it doesn’t say “from any other property line” but “from any other residence”. The ordinance where I live is...

My advice to you is this. Keep checking back with the City periodically because they’re bound to vote on some restrictions at some point, and unless you check every now and then, you’re probably not going to know about any changes until Code Enforcement is at your door. Your coop is in while...

Where’s the “pushback”? You’re “pushing back” by knowingly breaking the rules? If so, then you are left with no recourse when the HOA and/or City show up. If you really wanted to “push back”, you’d organize and get the laws changed and THEN you’d get your chickens. Failing that, you could...