UPDATE -
Well, Nash / Metro chickeners have won this round of the chicken keeping issue! One more vote by the full Council and it will become law . . .
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120104/NEWS0202/301040104/Backyard-chickens-make-gains-Nashville
Good afternoon all! For those in Metro Nashville/Davidson County, remember your council meeting is tonight at 6! You have a famous fellow chickener attending on your behalf, too! Check it out - -
From The Tennessean's Michael Cass, December 28...
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I suggest lots of "eddication." I give away eggs out the yin-yang in cute clear plastic (recycled) 6-packs. People love them, they ask about the different colored eggs, the want stories about the individual chickens . . . and they learn a little about their chicken-keeping neighbors...
For those interested, below is a direct quote sent to me by the Metro Nashville, TN Planning Director when I inquired about keeping poultry. Hope it helps others!
The short version: It is allowed, subject to same nuisance laws as other noises/domestic animals...