I searched in the little search window on chickens and got a LOT of other letters and articles. Heres a list of most of them if you dont want to wade through those.
I love the comments about how if you want to live on a farm you should move. I'm sorry, but who are they to tell me I have to buy my food based on where I live. Next they will tell us that we shouldn't be growning our own vegetables unless we live on a farm. Whatever, people depress me.
As I said to someone the other day, you'll have to pry my chickens from my cold dead hands. I have every right to provide myself with the means of my survival and the most basic of those rights is food. HA!
i posted a comment on the papers website to the story. people won't control there cats around here. i would much rather a chicken. just so thankful we can live on land without neighbors close by.
I live in the city. I hear we are allowed 4 chickens. However I have way more then that. I have many in my area who have dogs that bark all night long. My chickens are in their bedroom snoozing at night and are quiet. I mean they make some noise because they have free range of my yard to eat grass pick at my fruit trees etc. I have no bugs or ants and I don't have pet control
I think if people opened their minds to see how great they are, my kids love them. They contstantly bring friends over to show them. I'm willing to move before I give up my chickens.
There are neighborhoods that were built with the specific idea of keeping the peace....They have HOA's which don't allow anything that would create a noise problem or an eye sore. If people prefer living their life in absolute harmony this way, I believe they should seek out a neighborhood like this. My opinion is that an entire town should not ban the right to have a few chickens for pets. There once was a time when every family was allowed 1 hog, 2 goats, a dozen chickens and two horses when living inside town limits. I think I was born a hundred years too late
though now I can't separate my fingers from this keyboard
From the Centre daily Times in Sate College Pa. - Home of the Nittany Lions!
Tuesday, Dec. 09, 2008
Welch won't veto chicken ordinances
By Mike Joseph- [email protected]
STATE COLLEGE Mayor Bill Welch announced Monday he will not veto a new ordinance allowing the keeping of chickens in the borough, and council worked to try to reduce next years proposed property tax increase by two-thirds.
Council last week voted 4-3 on two ordinances to allow single-family homes to keep up to four hens, providing that chicken coops are kept 30 feet from surrounding homes and outdoor running pens for the birds are fully enclosed.
Welch said he would neither veto the ordinances nor sign them, allowing the ordinances to become law within two weeks.
Bottom line if chicken-keeping proves to be an intolerable nuisance, council has the option of repealing the ordinances, Welch said, adding that he personally doesnt like chickens.
However, I believe we should be making data-based decisions regardless of our personal opinions, he said. The risks and dangers claimed for small number of chickens in restricted coops and runs at one-family dwellings do not support a veto and I wont cast one.