any one know how i can get arowned this law????

[DuckLady]

If I had illegal chickens I wouldn't announce it on a message board! LOL

Your best bet is to go to your city hall and get your codes. Get a petition going and address your city council. Have your ducks in a row. Make sure you have the space and a PLAN in place to house and care for your future chickens.
Do your research and look up codes from other cities on chicken keeping.
You have a lot of work ahead of you. Good Luck!

 

[leghorns_rule]

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lol good point but i dont

 

[wegotchickens]

You will someday.
Just give Mom the "They followed me home" line about the chickens...

But only after you see what the consequences are for disobeying zoning.

No fun to get them, become attached to them, watch Mom get attached to them, and then have to get rid of them

 

[usbr]

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The onlyproblem is were a small subdivision in the middle of no where and im not shure what the nebors would think about chickens

Check zoning but here, if a house sits on rural land, the part with the house is always zoned residential and the land around it is the ag land. Example, you live on a 80 acre traditional farm. Here, 78 acres will be zoned ag (if it is 100% fields) and the last 2 acres are residental. Residentail land it taxed much, much higher than ag land. If you have some woods on your 80 acre farm, those woods are taxed differently too (usually around 2X ag land but still cheaper than residental). Just because you are in the country and farms all around you dont mean you are a farm (ag use). Your in a different state than I am so check your local rules and ask your parents to dig out the tax bill to see what your actually zoned as.

If you are in a subdivision, no matter if its in the middle of nowhere or not, its probally residental land and the rules you stated apply and you will need to change that rule. Several discussions around on how people did that.

Good luck.

 

[mdbucks]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=11943 check out this thread

he says the city considers chickens as livestock, along with horses, cows, and sheep. he said that i will probably receive a fine for having them, which will be $160-500, and they HAVE to go

this is from above thread, so I would definatedly do my research or someone(MOM) will have a hefty billl to pay if you get caught​

 

[hollyclyff]

We live in a subdivision that is zoned residential/agricultural. We can have any livestock we want based on county zoning, but our subdivision covenants don't allow swine. Anything else is OK though - horses, cows, sheep, chickens - whatever. If you live in a subdivision, that is something else you have to consider - protective covenants.

 

[leghorns_rule]

You will someday.
Just give Mom the "They followed me home" line about the chickens...
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tried that with many critters

 

[leghorns_rule]

this is from above thread, so I would definatedly do my research or someone(MOM) will have a hefty billl to pay if you get caught
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o i wuzent going 2 get some if they were illigal (id end up paying off the bill)

 

[apbgv]

I kind of do. They told me as long as I don't get any roosters they will look the other way. After all my chickens are pets, they all have names. Plus I swear if they make me get rid of them I will get the noisiest parrot I can H Ha

 

[mdbucks]

Hey I don't care what anyone says about you I think your a good kid, not expecting mom to pay your bills. Can you teach that philosophy to my kids.