Help! Don't want to re-home the girls.

[Lazy Farmer]

Code Enforcement saw the coop from the street. I lied and told her it was a shed. A friend checked and apparently they discovered it yesterday and are sending me a letter saying, I need a permit for chickens.

Code enforcement doesn't ride around looking for incompliance violations. Someone made a phone call.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

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Can you put a second gate up? From the corner of your neighbors drive gate to the house? That way nobody could look over...

Gary

 

[pennyJo1960]

City Code Enforcement has been driving really slow up and down the streets looking for tall grass, weeds and chicken coops.

I do think they have to have a complaint and have the burden of proof... play monkey... hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil... let them then say oh we have had them well over a year let them prove otherwise

 

[CzyChikenMath]

Help! I live in Eastpointe MI. I think I may have jumped the gun. They recently legalized backyard chicken here in Eastpointe. However, the hoops the city is making you jump through are huge.
1. All adjoining property owners must sign off that it is ok
2. Coop plans must be approved before a license can be paid for.
3. Only 3 chickens are aloud
4. Coop must be inspected by animal control within in 30 days of licensing or license will be revoked.
And there is more.

The law that was on the books up until recently was u could have live chickens if you were an educational institution or a research institution and/or where using the chickens for educational purposes or research purposes and/or the chickens are available for public viewing. The wording is very strange.

I knew the changes where in the works. So I went and bought some chicks with the hope of being grandfathered in under the old rules. The licensing paper work and permit where not available until the first of June. I have had chickens on the property since April.

I really don't want to get rid of my nine chickens. I have a 16 year old daughter. Who has learned a lot about chickens. She is not being home schooled. The neighbor kids love coming and seeing the chickens they have learned a lot. Even my adult neighbors tell me how much they have learned. In addition one of the chickens is blind or nearly blind.

At this point, I don't think the city has discovered my hidden treasure.

Help don't want to re-home my chickens.

would ..contacting your children's school and making them a part of the education program ...around kindergarten... meet edu. law? visit w/them 1 day in the class? just a thought

 

[Bluechick2u]

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Make sure you have a no tresspassing sign up too, we had problems with the city cops entering yards without that sign, they have loopholes unless you have it posted clearly.

 

[Suzanne Aubin]

No they can't. I have fence weave up so it would be real hard for them to see through the fence and know the movement is chickens. I think

would ..contacting your children's school and making them a part of the education program ...around kindergarten... meet edu. law? visit w/them 1 day in the class? just a thought

Some of the families in the city are trying to claim homeschooling. I have one daughter she is 16. She is involved in 4-H. But not being home schooled.

 

[Suzanne Aubin]

I am also a certified teacher. My certs. include special education and I also have a cert. in science. I might try and make that work.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

4-H may help. She needs to do a chicken project ASAP

gary

 

[Suzanne Aubin]

4-H may help. She needs to do a chicken project ASAP

gary

I told her that. I called today to see if I could enter the chickens into the county fair in August. Nope to late. I did check and make sure that we enrolled this year in 4-H, we did.

 

[Suzanne Aubin]

Nice looking "shed" out back. Do not invite them in the yard for a look. If the shed is under a certain size, 120 Sq Ft where I live you do not even need a permit for it.

How many do you have? How many allowed you said 3? 3 is a joke. I am in the county, on a half acre in the woods and only allowed 4 which also is a joke, I could have a dozen and not bother anyone.

Gary

I built a shed years ago. No permit needed under 10x10. It is a nice looking shed.