You could try to obtain a position on the HOA board and try to get an exception granted as an insider. Otherwise, your best alternative is to move to a less restrictive area.
What came first... the chicken or the egg?
... and lo, the Lord gazed upon the chicken and the egg, and not knowing which should come first, shoveth He the egg up into the chicken, and it was good.
They's nobody here but us chickens... (from my mom when I was little, probably from a tv show...
If you can find someone to be a m.b. counselor on this subject, like through the 4-H, or the FFA, and they are not currently members of BSA, you will need to ask them to do two things:
1) do the Youth Protection Training (online, about 20-30 minutes, see your council web site for online...
To Heather & Sourland, the Poultry Keeping Merit Badge was discontinued in 1973 or 1974 when its requirements were adjusted and merged into the Animal Science Merit Badge, which now has a section on avian livestock. The 4H program has a big leader's notebook available on poultry - everything...
J Egger - I'm glad to see a young man involved in Boy Scouting, especially one who likes chickens. As to the basis of your question, there isn't anything wrong with following the current requirements for the poultry section of the badge for Animal Science, while giving a nod to the historic...