animal control came and said to get rid of my chickens!

[b.hromada]

Wayne, you got that right!!! For some strange reason city hall thinks otherwise. Believe me, I am gonna give this my best shot, I want to keep my girls, and they have bothered NO ONE!
Barbara

 

[nerfy]

Yep, ordinances.... I'd like to take a nasty rusted out tractor and post my mailbox on it. It is a suburb and we are in the "old" section of houses that were once cabins by a near man made lake from the 40's.
If I get busted it would be from a neighbor. We are surrounded by rentals now. 1 is empty.
As I walked to my driveway this morning, I could hear my girls singing the egg laying song. I also hear geese by the lake. To an untrained ear it could be similar.....

 

[cwc362]

Quote:
When I lived in the city- there was a lot of things that I didn't want to 'hear either- I'd much rather hear a chicken or geese or even a donkey braying that some of bumpy bump music and somebody fighting!! Now non stop barking dogs- They tend to get on my nerves!! LOL

 

[b.hromada]

they certainly could be mistaken for. My city ordanances say I can keep my ducks! Go figure, right? stupid cities, and the people who run them!

 

[cwc362]

b.hromada :

they certainly could be mistaken for. My city ordanances say I can keep my ducks! Go figure, right? stupid cities, and the people who run them!

Yeah that's strange- Ducks usually are much messier than chkkens !! But I like ducks too . Some of these people who make these rules are really lugnuts!!​

 

[b.hromada]

They sure are messier and noisier too!

How stupid can they be. I do love my ducks too, don't get me wrong, its just the stupid ordanance that gets me the most. Our city has just turn 100 years old this year, they need to get with the program. It started as a farming community in the first place, not that I'm saying to turn my backyard into a farm, I just want to keep my chickens.

 

[nerfy]

Oh yes, we to have the dogs that bark constantly, the street I live on that has a 20 mph limit that most do at least 35 to 45 or more. "a main road through the subdivision" But that's OK ,I have seen people pass others because they drive the limit. Increase on house and car burglaries. What really got me was when I went to a local Menard's and presented a personal check for payment.
The teenage cashier looked at the check and commented "Wow, I heard there's a lot of drug dealers in your town".
Yup, and they have a thing about tractors and chickens.

 

[b.hromada]

The teenage cashier said that? Wow. What nerve, I mean for a kid to say something, especially like that.
Our speed limit here in our neighborhood is 25, our house is on a corner lot, so the street opposite our front door is a thru street from U.S. 1, or Federal Highway, as we call it, and people fly through here, just a month ago some idiot ran over someones cat,we thought it was one of ours, but it belonged to a woman in the apartments on the other street behind us! People are so inconsiderate and vicious too!

To think people complain about a tractor, give me a break! Like you said, much better the tractor than a bunch of drug dealers, huh? A question, when was the last time you heard of a flock of chickens having a drug deal on their property?

thats what I'm going to mention to the commissioners, chickens bother no one, they're harmless.

 

[nerfy]

I have lost many animals on my street. The jerk that was flying down the road as he hit my 3 year old black lab didn't even stop. Someone that saw it happen did. She opened the screen door while we were at a neighbors house. Broke her back.
As far as the cashier at Menard's she just made a comment, no harm done considering she is probably right. Hey, ya never know what them chickens got stashed under their wings..

Still pulling for you big time to keep your girls.

 

[jvls1942]

isn't it in the bill of rights that you have the right to know your accusor?? that was supposed to help curb this kind of accusation..

If people realized that they could not be incognito they would not be so quick to accuse..

I would push hard to make the "authorities" reveal your accusor.. maybe take it to court and drag them in as witnesses..

no accusor, no law broken..