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You have a remarkably rosy view of the nature of government agencies and their desire to accumulate power.

You may not be aware, but it was revealed on one of the Avian Flu threads that at least one federal government agency does not class backyard chickens as poultry because the owners are not engaging in commercial sales of meat or eggs. The precedent is already set to change a definition and...

Any government overreach into areas where government doesn't belong affects everyone by setting precedents for further overreach into additional areas.

Animal welfare is a local or, at most, state issue, not a federal issue.

Everyone knows where the road paved with good intentions leads. A couple decades ago before we entered a period where we moved very frequently, I was trying to get into breeding cockatiels and these regulations would have stopped me because I had 7 birds and, even at a modest $80 for a young...

BINGO! Except for the just concern of any citizen about the continual expansion of government regulation. I would like to know where in the Constitution of the United States of America the federal government is granted the power to regulate the treatment of animals.

Speak for yourself. I've got 21 hens at the moment and, though my first eggs from my flock are currently in the incubator, I've paid for my chicks by buying twice what I wanted and selling the extras as started pullet. 4 or fewer is tiny number -- not enough eggs to feed a family except maybe...