Chicken out law

[clarktx]

BODOR's friend :

I'm glad/sad to be in the company of other illegal chickeners. I had to give my chickens away before when the animal control nazis objected to my rooster. So a year later I ordered six little peeps--payed extra to have hens. Wuddencha know one of em is a he and now I have to find a home for a beautiful Dominques rooster. The dogs on both sides bark incessantly all day/night, but let Phyllis/Phil give a couple of barks (and he isn't loud)--way after the dogs have started up in the morning--and I'm in a position to lose all my babies.

Yeah. Its really crazy. Chickens are no worse than parrots (which are legal) and certainly no worse than a crazy dog.

I'm fixin' to get rid of my house dog... unless she starts laying eggs...​

 

[fullhouse]

You don't need to be established. You need to intend to farm commercially. Intending to sell a dozen eggs a week qualifies. Michigan has the most protection for farming of any state.

We live in a "nice"suburb. About 5 years ago someone decided they wanted to have an alpaca farm. As you can imagine that did not go over well with the residents around that had built custom homes. He has the right to farm, and enough money to fight for it. After several angry township meetings and a threat to sue, we have an alpaca farm within 100 yards of million dollar homes.

We also have a large horse farm now in the middle of homes built in the 50's and 60's.

 

[onebuggirl]

I have three barred rock and they are ILLEGAL! I figure I am going to approach the local government as if to ask them to change the ordinance so that I may have chickens. But they are PETS and are so clean and fun that my husband agrees if you don't get caught it's not illegal. Besides our neighbors love them and the one that could have a problem has his own problem ( his untrained wild naughty loud dog that steals anything and everything out of our yards including perfectly ripe tomatoes straight off the vine) So I figure I have leverage but won't rock the boat until I have to.

 

[Zanadi]

*raises hands*

OOO OOOO! We're illegal! Apparently here in Salem Oregon we need a single family residential agricultural zoning permit to have poultry and within city limits it pretty much impossible to do so. There was a big stink about it a couple years ago...even someone on city council got busted with back yard chickens but I don't think anythings been changed.

It's only been a few days so far but we've been warned in other posts that people in my area have had their chickens confiscated. Apparently there are about 100 calls a year in my city with chicken complaints. Hopefully we aren't one of them.

They're sure less noisy than the pit bulls in the alleyway... I've got records and audio of them barking it up on file since last May.

I hope there's a group of us here that could ban together and get the laws changed like they did for pot bellied pigs.

 

[erinm]

i had to shuck out 300 dollars just to appear before the zoning board to ask for chickens. Now I want a rooster and I will probobly have to do it all over agin. Extortion. i shouldnever have aked, and just did it! Anyone else run into this wackness of a fee? ErinM

 

[dixiechick]

GUILTY as charged: "Official Chicken Smuggler" here! I don't hide mine.....

We're small and rural (only 4 traffice lights in the whole city!)....but I know our small-town politics won't come after us being the majority of our community kids own these animals for 4H and FFA....

...it'd be bad PR, especially in an election year!

 

[balticbabe]

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Oh no, my brother just moved to Salem from Corvallis. He had chickens before, got me started. Now he'll have to be a chicken outlaw.

I'm technically a outlaw owner. Here cats and dogs need a license which requires a fee. All other animals need a permit which has no fee but requires all affected neighbors to sign off on the permit. I couldn't get my neighbors to agree to accept locking free mailboxes from the post office. How could I get them to agree that my chickens would be OK? And who would be affected? I did tell the neighbor next to me and the one behind me and they don't mind.

 

[Zanadi]

There was a news article I posted somewhere that was printed a few years ago about people wanting to change the chicken laws here in Salem.

I wonder if we all banned together we might be able to get the ball re-rolling because obviously things haven't been changed

If the city could change the law for pot bellied swine (er pigs).... chickens should be allowed too!

 

[Suess hens]

There is no ordinance written here about chickens. However, I can't have a rodeo or breed pygmy pigs (?what is a pygmy pig...not potbelly...pygmy). People on the street above us have like 30 roosters...I figure if there is something written and I haven't found it yet they will be caught before me...I hope.

 

[onebuggirl]

I just bought another illegal hen...Henrietta that makes 4...I am sooo BAD!