Backyard chickens need more regulation: Safety of birds and people at stake

[happyfrenchman]

I would not worry about this..... it is just some student/grad student doing a paper.... an opinion, like any other. It will not come to anything even in California. They do not have enforcement ability for the rules they already have.

 

[centrarchid]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/03/12/592342970/do-backyard-chickens-need-more-rules

 

[sylviethecochin]

I don't like that article either.

It's not mandated that my father take his cattle to the vet either. Are they going to be lobbying for farmers to have yearly veterinary inspections now?

 

[lazy gardener]

Uncle Sam forbid that the average American citizen should become capable of growing and harvesting their own food. Oh, the horror of the upset in civilization as we know it if the populace were to ever become so independent.

 

[happyfrenchman]

They can have my chicken when they pry it from my cold dead hands....

 

[Conan]

I'm not sure exactly what people this article is referring to, but does everyone honestly bring their pets to the vet every year/every other year? That article insinuated that it was somehow a mandatory part of owning a pet. I can't speak for other folks, but I do not bring my pets to the vet unless I have no other option and can't treat them myself. I can count on one hand the number of times I have taken my dogs and cats to the vet in the past 15 years. These things aren't mandatory. You do not have to update shots every year. There is literally not a scrap of proof that it does anything beneficial for your pet.
My point is that while some people do keep chickens as pets, the majority of us do not. They are working birds! Like any other livestock. There are things that most of us do already. Worm your livestock, make sure that they have access to clean water, lots of food and healthy living conditions.
I love Colorado - have a brother that lives there, but the thought of acquiring a permit for chickens and having an inspector come out, as though I were adopting a human child, oversteps my personal boundaries. I get the rooster thing. I get having to have some sort of license (or whatever it is) to sell eggs to the general public but I draw the line somewhere along the line of having to bring a chicken to the vet to put it down...