Hello from Alabama

[rjohns39]

Hi Jessica and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[N F C]

Hi Jessica, best wishes with all your plans!

 

[sourland]

Hello, Jessica, a belated Happy Birthday, and welcome to BYC.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal community!
Best wishes.....Be well!

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens!

Feel free to drop in and share your flock

Updates for 2020 with us here in my 2020 flock life thread



https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/2020-flock-life.1351080/

It’s nice to meet you!

 

[HomesteaderWife]

@BamaJessieJ - From one Alabamian to another, WELCOME!

We're so glad to have you here, and also so glad to hear you're finally able to get a few chickens! Stay safe and healthy during these times, and keep in touch here on BYC for any poultry needs. Such smart, helpful, and friendly folks that really know their stuff.

 

[drumstick diva]

Thank you for joining us at Backyard Chickens, the pulse beat of the chicken community

 

[007Sean]

Howdy Jessica and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Thanks for joining us!

 

[CarrieW83]

Hi everyone! I am Jessica and I live with myself, husband, and our 3 chihuahuas in Glencoe, Alabama. For years I have tried to convince my husband we needed some laying hens, but because he once worked on a chicken farm he vehemently refused, until the recent pandemic. So for my birthday this month I got a prefab coop, garden supplies and will be getting some chicks from TSC tomorrow. I.have spent so much time reading and studying, but I know that there is so much more to learn. I'm excited to start this journey and learn from all of you.

Hi, we used to live in Glencoe and had chickens so I just wanted to offer a bit of advice from experience. Depending on where exactly you live in Glencoe be careful. Glencoe has ordinances/zoning regs related to owning "livestock" as it's labeled in those stupid rules. I'm not certain if it's just in regards to the location of your home or land or if it's for the entire area, so if you haven't already checked into it be sure to do so before you invest to much time and money into it.

We lived over near the highschool in a little neighborhood with primarily senior citizens. They personally didn't mind our chickens at all, and enjoyed getting fresh eggs from us. But that code officer that drives around thru the city did. He even trespassed onto our property to see what we had a tarp covering (when we first got the chickens and were in the process of building our coop so it didn't have a roof yet.. hence the tarp). Anyhow.. our deed paperwork stated that you had to own at least 3+ acres to own or contain livestock on your property in the Glencoe city limits and then it had a written in addition above one sentence stating that poultry was not allowed. I think it even went into detail on types of livestock allowed and such.

We did not know this at that time when we got them and had been living there a few yrs at that point. We had never paid much attention to the fine print of our deed paperwork honestly. Our neighbors' son was friends with someone on the council and managed to get them to leave us be for maybe a yr at most, but then the code guy started leaving citations on our mailbox again. It got to the point we ended up having to move the chickens and coop a few miles away to my mother's house because she lived just outside of city limits in what's considered the county. Our neighbors were upset.. as I said, they enjoyed the chickens being around.

We got fed up with the constant hassle from them, it wasn't long after that that they began giving us grief about one of our dogs in our backyard, all because they were making assumptions on her breed.. (she's a boxer mix.. they kept listing her on the citations from the police Dept as a bulldog.. and she enjoyed jumping the fence to go raid tuna cans the neighbor sat out for some cat and would bring those and garden shoes home.. they never complained but some elderly people who got out to walk religiously every morning around 7 would complain anytime they saw her out saying she "appeared aggressive" or whatever.. yet this dog used to go to work with me at the nursing home I worked at and would freely walk without being on a leash and NEVER harmed a single soul, they all enjoyed her company). Eventually enough was enough and we ended up finding a home with more land out in a more rural/country type area/setting and moved last yr. I moved my chickens here and have since replaced my older flock with a younger one and currently hatch off chicks.

Good luck and I hope everything works out, just be sure to check into everything.

 

[schuc]

We just bought a house in Glencoe, AL and definitely plan on having Chickens. Uh ohh...I guess we have some reading to do. We thought the property fell in unincorporated Gadsden but just got word today that it's actually in Glencoe.