Help!!!

[AmyLM]

I signed also even though Im in Texas. I wish I could be there in person to support you. If I was still living in Jersey I would have been there for sure!

Have you called local radio stations? Especially the AM side... its a great way to get the word out.

 

[Red12]

If you set up a "crowd-funding" site for attorney fees for such a project, let me know and I will contribute to your cause.

 

[AmyLM]

If you set up a "crowd-funding" site for attorney fees for such a project, let me know and I will contribute to your cause.

I WILL TOO!

 

[andrewsdf]

There is a chicken swap at Back Bay Botanicals on March 10th on Muddy Creek Road. This may be a good place to recruit support.

 

[I'm1chickencuddler]

I signed the petition and I was #289. I was born and raised in Virginia Beach and grew up in the Great Neck Area. We always had chickens and I have kept that tradition going. We still live in the same area. If you don't mind me asking what area of Virginia Beach do you live?

I live in Aragona. Sorry it took so long to get back to you. There is much happening around getting them legal in the city. Very exciting. Come out to Back Bay Botanicals this Saturday for a seed/chicken swap. She will have my hard copy petition and information on what else we can do.

 

[k3llyVA]

Is it helpful for folks outside of Virginia Beach to sign your petition?

I'm in Arlington VA, where zoning ordinances prohibit almost everyone from owning chickens- no one has yards big enough! I'm involved with a group called The Arlington Egg Project. They are working to have the county ordinances changed to allow for a limited number of hens (no roosters) and are making very good progress. You might like to check out their website: http://www.arlingtoneggproject.org

Good luck!

 

[NoZolbitty]

Asking questions always helps but you may have to be careful how you ask and who you're asking, but be prepared you may find yourself becoming the local backyard chicken advocate in yoir area,
14 years ago we were living in the hyde park neighborhood in Norfolk Va. One afternoon the kids next door came in saying there's a chicken in a tree down the street: Me bein an ex country kid went to see what they were talking about. Well in the lower branches of this tree sat a rooster a game rooster and later we found a game hen hiding in the brush of the fence line I caught both and brought them home, I put them in a pen I built so I could deal with a female cat's heat cycles until i could get her fixed, the hen had some sort of staple affixed to her upper mandible that made it hard for her to eat anything I offered her I removed it, wanting to give the guilty party a swift kick in the "tender bits" She seemed to be a sweet bird and happily ate every thing I put in front of her
As much as I would have liked I did not have the right facilities to keep them so I call the local SPCA They came the next morning and the gentleman who picked them up told me If your neighbors don't mind you could have kept the hen.

 

[I'm1chickencuddler]

It is official.....I am the chicken advocate of Virginia Beach. I now have a blog site www.virginiabeachchickenoutlaw.com . A guy named Kevin set it up in support of the backyard flock movement in our area. I have been speaking at our city council meetings the past couple months. It seems most people are just plain fearful of "coming out of the coop" (hehe...closet) because they don't want to lose their flocks. That is not the way to go. Open up and let them know, I say. That is the way to make the changes necessary. If I hide in fear then nothing changes. I will do what is necessary to keep my chickens at my home on my property in my yard in my life. They are important to me. Only a few have shown up at the council meetings so far. We need a bigger showing or as Andy the chicken whisperer, told me, I will end up known as the crazy chicken lady.

 

[WannaBeFarmers]

What time is your hearing tomorrow?

 

[I'm1chickencuddler]

My hearing has already happened. They voted 4 against 1 for. I am speaking at city council again tonight.