https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=469286&p=1
Peeps, check out some of the latest news accounts on this in the above thread. Would love your feedback over there (to try to gather comment in one place). It's gone crazy viral! Africa, India, Pakistan, France, UK, Canada, and...
You may want to switch over to here now:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=469286&p=1
Was able to get copy of the proposed ordinance and posted it and that thread grew, so added the articles there. Should have combined them from the beginning but alas, I did not...
And as we know, sometimes a roo makes less noise than a bunch of hens at a hen party. All make less noise than relentlessly barking dogs.
I always worry that my pretty quiet BJ will get targeted if people decide to go cuckoo here in the neighboring town.
JJ
Same topic, in the other local paper:
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP: Chickens may find new roosts
DATE POSTED: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:05 AM EDT
By John Tredrea, Staff Writer
Residents whose homes are on lots at least one-half acre in size would be able to keep up to six chickens on their...
N.J. town proposes limiting mating of roosters, chickens in backyard farms to 10 days a year
Published: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 8:35 AM
By Lisa Coryell/For The Times
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP It might not make the chickens happy, but the township committee hopes to keep the peace in neighborhoods...