Chickens at Pet Stores?

[brandywine]

You may want to find out whether anyone has kept potbelly pigs or rabbits and gone unmolested. Or pigeons.

I think you will agree that a facility that, say, raises feeder pigs from weaning to slaughter, would count as "animal husbandry," and would also not be something you would like next-door in town. So getting argumentative over hair-splitting on the definition because you are not breeding chickens is not likely to get you very far with the authorities.

Since the definition of "agriculture" would, if uniformly applied to exclude agriculture from areas not specifically zoned for it, make it illegal to plant a garden, you need to challenge them on that sort of thing.

Just because something is defined as agricultural for the purpose of permitting it in areas that are zoned agricultural, doesn't mean that it is by definition excluded from other areas.

And of course, a "domestic animal" is also a cat, dog, guinea pig, canary. Is Troy banning those?

 

[Shared Acres]

I would just start calling around--feed stores, pet stores, vet offices.

 

[Trollkiller]

dang it never mind.. arrggg

 

[AngryHippie]

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Sadly that's the wrong "Troy" Troy, OH is in Miami County.

 

[AngryHippie]

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I actually plan on bring that up as well. If the committee finds that we are conducting husbandry by simply having them I'm going to state that they need to dismiss all domestic animals across the board.

 

[Shared Acres]

You might want to contact the Metro section of your newspaper and get them involved or call the news stations.

You said you only have two right? I would see if they would do a story about how you are being picked on or something like that.

 

[AngryHippie]

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I've already been in several papers on on 3 TV stations. I've actually got all that information posted on our website.

 

[conny63malies]

Whu not buying Buckeye chickens? they are a native to Ohio species( Warren) and a endangered breed. cant kill something that native and endangered, can ya? you should be encouraged to breed nd save them.

 

[Trollkiller]

Ohio law makes a distinction between animal husbandry and poultry husbandry.

From http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/gp1.61

animal husbandry, including, but not limited to, the care and raising of livestock, equine, and fur-bearing animals;
poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products;

As I am reading the Troy city code they do not make a distinction.

Because they don't make a distinction I would tell them that the particular ordinance they are using is irrelevant and the exotic animal ordinance would be relevant.

Make sure you have a copy of the code I linked to above.

You will need to think like a lawyer. Still working on this.

 

[AngryHippie]

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They're not exotic because they're a domestic animal, not a "wild" animal