Good news and bad news... Bad news first. I have been in communication with a county employee who works in zone planning, turns out that chickens are not allowed in my zone. But, the good news is that the county is currently going through a zone revision. The draft is out now but won't be...
I was hoping I could sneak by calling them pets. As I have seen mentioned before, PETCO carries pet chicken products and coops. I'll talk to the county and ask them about the covenants as they would be conducting arbitration if needs be. There is no HOA in my neighborhood, just a list of rules.
Here is the neighborhood covenant covering animals:
I'm trying to be objective when reading this, but I'm reading this as you can't breed animals commercially. Can you call chickens you collect eggs from household pets? There will be no rooster or breeding going on. I just need an objective...
I couldn't find a general discussion forum, so I'll just ask here. I live in a normal neighbohood, but it's in an unincorporated area of the county. I looked up the ordinance for my zone and there is no mention of animals of any kind, and my neighborhoods' covenants only mention chickens as you...
Thanks for the warm welcome!
TexasChickenRoo, I spent some time in Wichita Falls. I went to my first tech school at Sheppard AFB. I'm a city boy too, but the wife and I are planning to retire somewhere just outside of a city. Right now Tennessee is in the lead for our retirement state. But...
Hi everyone. I'm active duty Air Force stationed in Northern CA, originally from South Carolina.
My wife and I are thinking about building a small coop and keeping around 4 chickens. We want to keep chickens for the self-sufficiency aspect as well as a family togetherness activity, we have a 6...