Hoping to get Chickens soon - but first to make them legal!

[fldiver97]

Keeping fingers crossed! Sounds like you have done all the work needed to make an excellent case to allow back yard chickens!

 

[cmom]

If it's old fashioned old people you're dealing with, you have to fight fire with fire. Years ago the small town we lived in went after my husband for not repairing a window busted in a hail storm. We had no insurance but he had still replaced 4 broken windows, the siding on both the house and garage and the roof of the garage. But this one boarded up window and the city had a fit. Mind you they allowed empty trailer homes and for people to live in RVs in driveways on the same block.
Now I am a housewife and rarely seen in public. I went to city hall dressed in 4 inch heels, Pearl's and my grandmother's tight wiggle dress from the 1950s. I'm not a particularly attractive woman, but I stood up straight and wore red lipstick and spoke intelligently and politely. I both brown nosed and shamed them in my best motherly tone. I told them it was unkind and unjust for people in a position of such power (lol) to shame a hard working and honest man who was just trying to do right by his town and family. That he had worked hard to complete the work he had done and paid for it all out of his own pocket. I said that it greatly grieved him knowing how that boarded up window made the town look (lol) and that there was no sense in making matters worse by giving him a citation. I pointed out how there are few good men working honest jobs and allowing his wife to stay home to tend the children and do Gods work. I said it was simply unamerican and unchristian to target his shortcomings in such a public way.
They dropped the citation immediately and each board member apologized and shook my hand. One even kissed my hand much to my horror. The wife of one chairman brought me a cake the next day. My husband, being mature and not at all pretty, left that window boarded from the outside for 10 years after he replaced the broken window. True story.

 

[drumstick diva]

Great post Elsveta641

 

[Elsveta641]

Great post Elsveta641

If it's a panel of old men set in their ways, dress like a lady and act the part. Lay it on real thick. And I dont mean be sexy, I mean act and look like a lady. They'll eat out of your hand. Also works in small town traffic court lol

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[khorvath]

If it's a panel of old men set in their ways, dress like a lady and act the part. Lay it on real thick. And I dont mean be sexy, I mean act and look like a lady. They'll eat out of your hand. Also works in small town traffic court lol

The biggest anti-chicken alderman is an old lady actually.

 

[NonnasBabies]

Welcome!