Here is a list of reasons I will take the city Commissioners asking them to rescind the ordinance the Animal Control Dept wrote and keeps saying is "LAW."
- chickens provide fresh eggs. It is hard for me to eat store bought eggs. even the ones at Natural food stores have unknown sources (and we know at least one organic company treats their cows, well, badly enough i think the people i've seen on video should go to jail for a long time). it is best i get them myself. this is partial sustainability.
- the reason the ordinance was said to be made was to keep people from having chickens in their backyard. once the Animal control board said it was b/c 'some' chickens are kept in unsanitary manner. well, following that rationale, all animals should be made illegal. it seems more rational to enforce the sanitary conditions for chickens the same way sanitary conditions are enforced for all animals in the city.
- chickens eat mosquitoes, ticks and many other insects. it is said that one won't need backyard fogger or an insectocuter. this is "GREEN" and our city is pushing "GREEN."
- just like dogs, not all hens are noisy. noisy ones can be culled. the "barking dog ordinance," as it is commonly called, applies to all animals.
- just like all animals, owners become attached to them.
- chickens kept in sanitary conditions pose no health threats (the people who believe their media and think a pandemic may start with four chickens in a backyard, please not reply). http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2010_04_09/en/index.html
- Myself and at least one other person called someone in one of the city dept's and were told chickens were "legal." i think limited to one dozen. this was last summer. but the law was said to be written in jan 2007. i wish i had printed the ordinances last fall as they read it was legal. it has changed and i swear something is fishy.
- they said they intend to enforce the ordinance based on complaints. as long as it is illegal to own a chicken, a neighbor will be prone to call a complaint in for just that. i called the Animal control and the man was adamant that ownership of chickens as illegal in a residential on property less than 1/4 acre.
- what else can i say to the commissioners to rescind the ordinance?
- chickens provide fresh eggs. It is hard for me to eat store bought eggs. even the ones at Natural food stores have unknown sources (and we know at least one organic company treats their cows, well, badly enough i think the people i've seen on video should go to jail for a long time). it is best i get them myself. this is partial sustainability.
- the reason the ordinance was said to be made was to keep people from having chickens in their backyard. once the Animal control board said it was b/c 'some' chickens are kept in unsanitary manner. well, following that rationale, all animals should be made illegal. it seems more rational to enforce the sanitary conditions for chickens the same way sanitary conditions are enforced for all animals in the city.
- chickens eat mosquitoes, ticks and many other insects. it is said that one won't need backyard fogger or an insectocuter. this is "GREEN" and our city is pushing "GREEN."
- just like dogs, not all hens are noisy. noisy ones can be culled. the "barking dog ordinance," as it is commonly called, applies to all animals.
- just like all animals, owners become attached to them.
- chickens kept in sanitary conditions pose no health threats (the people who believe their media and think a pandemic may start with four chickens in a backyard, please not reply). http://www.who.int/csr/disease/avian_influenza/country/cases_table_2010_04_09/en/index.html
- Myself and at least one other person called someone in one of the city dept's and were told chickens were "legal." i think limited to one dozen. this was last summer. but the law was said to be written in jan 2007. i wish i had printed the ordinances last fall as they read it was legal. it has changed and i swear something is fishy.
- they said they intend to enforce the ordinance based on complaints. as long as it is illegal to own a chicken, a neighbor will be prone to call a complaint in for just that. i called the Animal control and the man was adamant that ownership of chickens as illegal in a residential on property less than 1/4 acre.
- what else can i say to the commissioners to rescind the ordinance?
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