Bummed...in PA

[KettermanHillCoop]

Where in PA are you located?

 

[FarAwayBoy]

1. You own your home...and the land it sits on...and pay real estate taxes...correct?
2. You are NOT part of a HOA...correct?
3. Your local zoning board are fine with chickens...as per your post ..."I checked with the township and we're fine to have them, zoning is A OK. The coop just has to be a certain set-back from the property lines."
4. Go get your chickens. Follow the rules of zoning on placement of coop.
5. Go tell your neighbor to go pound sand.

Yup, own home, pay taxes (ever increasing!)

No HOA - just what my wife and I call "the old guard" who made "rules" 30 years ago. We intentionally looked for non-HOA homes and non-deed restricted areas.

Yes! to 4 and 5! haha

Thanks for your support!

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

Yup, own home, pay taxes (ever increasing!)

No HOA - just what my wife and I call "the old guard" who made "rules" 30 years ago. We intentionally looked for non-HOA homes and non-deed restricted areas.

Yes! to 4 and 5! haha

Thanks for your support!

For a little added satisfaction...egg her house with your first egg...

 

[FarAwayBoy]

 

[FarAwayBoy]

Where in PA are you located?

Southeast PA, nearly in DE and MD.

 

[KettermanHillCoop]

Southeast PA, nearly in DE and MD.

I'm about an hour north of Lancaster...luckily surrounded by farm land...and Amish. Best neighbors ever!

 

[FarAwayBoy]

UPDATE: Chicks reserved for an ETA of March 20th!

 

[FarAwayBoy]

I realized I never came back on here to report how things went. Facebook took over with their local Chicken groups I frequent! A lot has happened in two years.

• All 4 chicks reached maturity and laid.
• We had some drama with pecking during a tough first winter, blood, feathers gone, all that fun. But they and we made it through with the right treatments and TLC and advise from friends.
• We lost one hen, our Silver Laced Wyandotte, for reasons unknown, just found her outside lying there dead, no signs of predator. She was our problem child but still sucked to loose her
• All other healthy. Then two fox cam in the yard about 2 months ago and killed two hens. Now we're down to 1, an Easter Egger, who got away from them and hid! She's laying but lonely.
• We now have two week old chicks, peeping away in a brooder! Started with 4 but lost a small Welsummer last night for unknown reasons. Hence I'm back into chicken world...kinda freaking out for the remaining 3's health.
  
  
• Oh! And the neighbor! She doesn't talk to us much. I built a coop and run and a chicken never hopped the fence into her yard, or anyone's for that matter. No complaints directly to us or via other neighbors. Everyone else loves them. New neighbors on the other side are planning on chickens within the year!
  

Thanks again, two year later, for the support and help. I like coming back and now helping others get into chickens.

 

[CapricornFarm]

If you live in the country then someone somewhere best be producing that document.

Is the house in some sort of HOA development?

No chickens eh? How about peacocks?
They have a call that cuts through everything!

Or guineas!

 

[eulogos]

Hello all,

I wasn't sure where to post this but needed to write this all out tonight because I'm bummed out and know this is a place to go.

Trying to keep it short: We found out just a few minutes ago that in the original developer of the homes (7 total) in our, literally, road in the woods imposed restrictions on poultry being raised on the properties. It had to be written up in the 1970s when the houses were built. The only reason I asked the previous owner about any knowledge they had of restrictions is due to the a neighbor who was fine with us planning to get chickens one minute and a few weeks later, not. She actually came over to "talk" (down to me) about it on my son's birthday, while I was cleaning up the yard prior to his a chicken-themed party. She brought up it being "in the deed"; but apparently, according to the previous owner, it's in the title or title insurance paperwork somewhere, though I haven't checked yet.

So, my awesome 6 year old had to be told that there was a chance that he couldn't get chickens. In his astounding, youthful optimism he said to me: "It's OK, we can still read about them, right? And maybe move to a place we can have them someday." I nearly balled.
Anyway, I might figure out how to change the old restriction since, I've heard I'm not the only one over teh years who has moved to the area and wanted chickens only to be shut down by the matriarchs of the little road. If it wasn't for her attitude towards me, I'd go for it, however I don't trust her and it'd be even harder to see the chickens go away AFTER raising them.

Thanks for ears/eyes folks. I truly needed this time and space to vent/be bummed.

Best,
Matt

Get a real estate lawyer and ask him if there is a way to get this changed. It seems odd that the builder could restrict it forever.