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I am familiar with the works of Mr. Swift. Thank you for your well crafted, civil, and scholarly response.

Unfortunately, yes, but from the position of the code enforcement officer. I have never experienced this as the chicken owner.

........... Satire.

Not so fast: The OP apparently doesn't have enough land for one chicken. No warrant is needed for that for code enforcement. You do not know what you are talking about.

If that were true, everyone would have privacy fences and animals in town and the town couldn't do a thing about it, rendering the codes void. But it is not true. I have worked in municipal code enforcement. There may be some preliminary expectation to knock and talk, but if there is still...

Satire.

The sound of clucking constitutes probable cause for code enforcement to come onto the property.

Satire.

Actually though... all of those are gray areas, at least where I'm from. There is no magistrate in his right mind who would issue a warrant for arrest because some crabby lady came in and said "MY NEIGHBOR FED MY CAT BACON GREASE!!!" Fertilizing someones grass technically is not vandalism here...

Satire.

Then find a paralegal friend who will send her a letter threatening lawsuit for emotional suffering and gaim lost from the eggs your chickens would have produced over the course of their lifetime if she had not deprived you of them, and the cost of wasted housing.

Stash your chickens with a helpful neighbor and their coop, pass the inspection, then bring your chickens back. Then check the ordinances for as many violations as you can find on your problem neighbor, send her a letter by certified mail entailing each and every one of those violations with...