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    Please help! My chickens keep dying!

    Not sure why you lost your birds, I've experienced an older hen dying in the middle of the night. Wife went to open the coop and this birds rolled out, wife first thought the bird was eager to get out, then realized it was dead. I've lost a bird to eating plastic that got stuck in her beak...
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    My chicken Tractor with pics and link to video

    It could probably be done without welding. The flag pole is 1/2 black pipe going into a reducer to one inch pipe. The axle is 1 inch pipe and is coupled to the flag pole with a "Tee" By drilling a hole into the "Tee" where the axle attaches to the flag pole, and putting a screw there prevents...
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    My chicken Tractor with pics and link to video

    Puling the flag pole toward the ground lowers two dolly wheels. you can see the wheels in the inside coop picture. Some welding and metal fab were required.
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    My chicken Tractor with pics and link to video

    Chickens on the Tree Lawn coop. I built a really neat chicken tractor. Flag pole doubles as a wheel lift. The cable you see raises and lowers the coop door for the birds to get in an out.
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    Chickens on the tree lawn

    Local ordinance reads "No person shall keep horses, goats, cows, chickens, sheep, mules, ducks, geese, turkeys or similar farm animals on premises of less than two (2) acres. In no case shall such animal be kept or maintained within 75 feet of any dwelling occupied by any person other than the...
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    Ohio v. any municipal ordinance

    Not interested in "fines" in legal mumbo jumbo a "penalty" is imposed by the court for breaking a "law." If the state says, doing "X" is a misdemeanor, no municipality may call doing "X" a felony. That's been decided and has precedent. So, if the state defines that raising chickens your penalty...
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    Ohio v. any municipal ordinance

    I think this should hold up in court,,, (will find out soon) ORC 715.23 which reads: “a municipal corporation may regulate, restrain, or prohibit the running at large, within the municipal corporation, of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats, geese, chickens, or other fowl or animals...
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    Illegal Fowl - Legal Article for Government Officials considering changing their Local Chicken Ordin

    This post ought to be a sticky,,,
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    Illegal Fowl - Legal Article for Government Officials considering changing their Local Chicken Ordin

    Thank you for writing that paper. I forwarded a copy to my city council. I need to PM you re. the paper.
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