And how would they know you slaughter your chickens?
How indeed? It's obviously going to be compliant-based enforcement. They've never inspected the coop and run to ensure compliance.
SO - other people with tall runs - how high do you have roosts in the run? I haven't put any in yet, but want...
But I have a question for rocketdad: Where do you live that they have a height limit on your pens????? I know that some governing bodies can be strange, but I've never seen that one before
Longmont, Colorado. The city council argued for years about it, and finally agreed to 4 hens, chickens...
My temporary run was the height of the welded wire I had laying around. It irritated the heck out of me.
My run is 7' tall, the maximum height allowed by the city under the urban chickens rules. It's much nicer.