California - Northern

[Nikon]

We are R2a in Eldorado county.
means we can not have people buy stuff here we have to take it somewhere to sell. we can not sell chickens under our business license. so I have to do that under my name.
it is ok because we can do farmers markets or meet people places

Psshhh. Auburn. Just make a stealth coop

I go there for the Home Depot and the Best Buy. Grass Valley is too stodgy for them apparently.

 

[Gomes Bantams]

X2

 

[Nikon]

It is because we are AWESOME!!!! Or maybe we don't have anything better to do? Or maybe it is because those of us in California are more chicken obsessed?

Anyway I have a cheater question to ask. It is a cheater question because I am sure someone has asked it in the past, but I can't find the answer searching......

Is Lincoln, CA and/or Auburn, CA chicken friendly? I see that Auburn allows 6 hens for 5,000 sq ft and up, but I can't find anything except some older ordinance (that may still be valid) about 1 "poultry" for every 20,000 sq ft. Or to translate and make it less difficult, just say NO for most of the City. A good portion of their lot sizes in the city are small.

Just curious if anyone know for sure about Lincoln "legal" definition.

Thanks for your answers on the reason why on using Egg cartons for the hatching. I would have thought they would have made it harder for the chicks to break free, but I am all for easier clean up and no egg hockey.

Sorry about the exploding egg Ron.... does that happen a lot?

Lol, go to the doctor and get a note prescribed for "companion pets'.... you know like how people in apartments get so they can bring their cat or dog!

 

[lizanne]

I don't know about Lincoln, but I'm raising illegal chickens in Citrus Heights. I have 12 hens, 9 layer chicks (at least 4 are going to my dad when they are old enough), and 22 Cornish cross chicks (who are only going to be with us for 3-5 more weeks). The rule in Citrus Heights is no small livestock (under 60 pound, chickens included) unless your property is a total of 10,000+ square feet and even then it's up to 10 chickens. You have to have 20,000+ to have a rooster. My property is 90 Square feet short =(.

 

[ronott1]

I don't know about Lincoln, but I'm raising illegal chickens in Citrus Heights. I have 12 hens, 9 layer chicks (at least 4 are going to my dad when they are old enough), and 22 Cornish cross chicks (who are only going to be with us for 3-5 more weeks). The rule in Citrus Heights is no small livestock (under 60 pound, chickens included) unless your property is a total of 10,000+ square feet and even then it's up to 10 chickens. You have to have 20,000+ to have a rooster. My property is 90 Square feet short =(.

I love it! Chicken math has me in it's grip too....

 

[capayvalleychick]

Kim, the fluffy in the picture doesn't look very to tasty to me.

Is that one of the baby's I hatched out?

Yes, she would not be here, if it weren't for you.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I don't know about Lincoln, but I'm raising illegal chickens in Citrus Heights. I have 12 hens, 9 layer chicks (at least 4 are going to my dad when they are old enough), and 22 Cornish cross chicks (who are only going to be with us for 3-5 more weeks). The rule in Citrus Heights is no small livestock (under 60 pound, chickens included) unless your property is a total of 10,000+ square feet and even then it's up to 10 chickens. You have to have 20,000+ to have a rooster. My property is 90 Square feet short =(.

I'm not tellin'.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm zoned agricultural - so I can have up to 100 chickens on my property. My DH would have a coronary if I had that many, but I'm able to have them. Besides, with a couple of neighbors with dogs that bark CONSTANTLY (meaning all day long non stop - and no I'm not kidding), they'd better not complain about my roosters. Newsflash people, when your dog barks so much that it is hoarse, it's a problem.

And I'm on 5 acres, so it's not like they are close.

 

[redriver]

I'm zoned agricultural - so I can have up to 100 chickens on my property. My DH would have a coronary if I had that many, but I'm able to have them. Besides, with a couple of neighbors with dogs that bark CONSTANTLY (meaning all day long non stop - and no I'm not kidding), they'd better not complain about my roosters. Newsflash people, when your dog barks so much that it is hoarse, it's a problem.

And I'm on 5 acres, so it's not like they are close.

I used to live in the city of Alameda. The next door neighbor's dogs barking at us while we were INSIDE our own home is what prompted us to buy our first home... without dogs next door!

 

[gryeyes]

My property is within the correct zone to keep chickens but is less than an acre. This is supposed to make it illegal for me, but I .... Well, I get to keep them. The attorney selected by the County of El Dorado who served as the judge at my Administrative Hearing rendered the decision in my favor.

Neener, neener.

With that being said, and after a neighborhood meeting which winnowed valid objections down to simple noise from the roosters, I have agreed to keep no more than two crowing roosters.