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Hi everybody! We met with the Zoning and Planning Department a little while ago and 5:1 were for a change in the current ordinance. With the help of the ZPD, we created an outline and implied our suggestions. I think the draft looks very good and we are trying to suggest a sliding scale when it...

A friend when to yardsales on Saturdays, it took a looong time but people are more approachable. Is it required that you obtain signatures?

Thank you so much! Our next step will be the meeting with the Zoning and Planning Department next week. We will offer some ideas for ordinances, rules and regulations. From there it will be handed down to City Counil again for a final vote. I will keep updating this topic

Our local newspaper (El Paso County and Fountain Valley News) posted a great article today in their weekly issue (front page, page 5 and page 14). Please visit their website and also vote on their poll for us! www.epcan.com Thank you for your support!

Oh wow Junkmanme, that is really interesting!I will send you a PM later on tonight It seems like everybody was stepping on their own toes

Hello Chicken Fans, so we indeed tackeled our issue on 1-1-11 in front of our City Council. We wrote a great research paper and put a very nice folder together for all Council members, the City Attorney and the Zoning and Planning Director, who were all present at the CC meeting. We had 15...

We did everything we could before we got our 5 girls a year ago: spoke to our neighbors who all ok'd it, called Fountain's Zoning Office and here is what happened: We spoke to a lady at the Fountain Zoning office and she explained we could have chickens, up to 8, no rooster. We explained that we...

Hi Jackee, I am in Fountain and starting the same procedure! I will send you an email! Elli

Hello everybody! Yes, I am taking on the challenge to relax the Ordinance in our City of Fountain Colorado. Currently, no poultry is allowed (nor rabbits) within the City limits, where we reside. Fountain has always advertised itself as being a country town and the logo for our neighborhood...

Hello everybody... We have a total of 5 chickens (4 Australorps and one Hybrid) and our chicken coop is pretty large (5x6x7) and our two oldest girls are 10 months old, the younger ones about 6. We are in Colorado and it gets quite frosty in the night, below freezing. One of our older girls...

Hi Lanae, I floated them and all stayed on the bottom, good sign! I ate three of them and they were fine. I was worried, too because they were out in the flower bed for 5-6 days but too precious to waste. I think my girl was too stressed to lay it in the coop when the young ones ran around...

Hello Everybody, I know this thread has been up for a while but I will just add something I am a newbie chickenowner, I got mine in January 2010 and my white chicken (a hybrid) is laying eggs since 2 weeks, pretty green in color. About a week ago, we introduced the two adults (born in January)...