How do i go about changing/petitioning for village ordinance to allow ducks?

[LtDanFan]

Im a little heart broken right now and also I’m sleep deprived and traveling so i hope i make sense. sorry in advance for the long read, i promise there is a genuine question and need buried somewhere in this…..
6 months ago, in a moment of weakness, I got 5 ducklings at TSC. I already planned, prepped for and hatched out chickens at the time so the ducks were just an augmentation of my “egg” plan. Maybe with a side of “meat” or whatever. Then a friend convinced me to get layers because she has ducks and their eggs are bigger, richer and better for baking. I do a fair amount of baking so i was in. For the record, she lives 2 blocks away and is also as it turns out not allowed her ducks but her neighbors are apparently not the a$$holes mine are. i digress.

Long story short…. We had a fire at the house and 4/5 ducklings perished, along with a few chicks. So we had one lonely duckling, a handful of chickens and lots of plans for their outside accommodations. I ended up with 1 duckling brooded and raised with chickens to the point that he cooped up with them at night and legit prob to this day thinks he is a chicken. he regularly and readily walked right up the ramp to the chicken coop and took his spot amongst his crew, then hung out with his brood mates all day. I ordered a few baby duck ladies that lay to keep him company and finally received the hatching eggs i had ordered 6 months prior. All in all i ended up with 13 ducks. kicker is, the ordinance was confusing and I honestly thought ducks were ok, it was the number i was worried about. Turned out that ducks are not allowed at all.
Fast forward to 3 days ago when i get a letter from the village (cause that’s apparently a thing in Wisconsin….backwards but i guess as long as we call it a village we can legally have an idiot or two living here ) stating that i have 2 weeks to rehome, slaughter or otherwise get those quackers off my property. Thankfully, they were not able to access the separate chicken yard my wonderful BF built to see that i have more hens than allowed as well (although i know most people that have chickens in my area violate the ordinance in one way or another).
Although i have found what i think is a wonderful home for my beloved ducks, i would like to go about changing the ordinance if i can.
Can anyone help in how to go about this??? are there people in Wisconsin (Racine county, specifically) that would be willing to help me circulate, get signed and propose an ordinance change to allow ducks. From my standpoint, the reasons for allowing ducks is the same as allowing chickens as they are used for the same thing and the drawbacks are not there, provided their care is mandated by the statutes.

I understand that this might not help me as my girls have been rehomes and i am too heartbroken at the moment to think about repopulating my property with ducks, but perhaps i can help others prevent a similar situation or even give them an egg laying/meat alternative to chickens within my community.

while i am grateful and feel fortunate to have found a good home for my precious and lovely girls so quickly, especially given that i am out of the country for the next 2 weeks, i just want to change things going forward and i need help.
thanks for anyone that gets to the end of this and can offer advice as to where to start or how to go about changing local laws and whatnot.

 

[LtDanFan]

Also, any insight to making them emotional support animals would be appreciated. Is this real? Could i really do this? I haven’t yet asked my mental health provider if she’d be willing to sign off but i gather from our visits that she recognizes that in general they provide a welcome distraction from the people and animals i normally have to deal with.
When i tell my BF that i am in my happy place, he knows to look for me in the backyard watching the ducks or chickens.

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

Also, any insight to making them emotional support animals would be appreciated. Is this real? Could i really do this? I haven’t yet asked my mental health provider if she’d be willing to sign off but i gather from our visits that she recognizes that in general they provide a welcome distraction from the people and animals i normally have to deal with.
When i tell my BF that i am in my happy place, he knows to look for me in the backyard watching the ducks or chickens.

You have to legally be able to keep ducks before they can be emotional support animals. Yes it is real. The human has to be approved to have non-conventional animals, such as birds, with a document allowing you to do so. Any non-conventional animal you have would then be eligible. It is much harder to get, to my knowledge. However, since they are harder to potty train, I'm wondering how you would go about bringing ducks with you. Also, ESA service can be declined in any establishment, such as stores are not required to allow ESA animals into the premise, unlike registered service animals (they go through training and must meet requirements and in some cases, such as us airports, you have to provide documentation that you have to have the support animal with you.) You could get a dog ESA trained and approved to essentially meet some strict requirements of always being in your control, and then it'd fall under the same premise of a service animal. An example would be someone with schizophrenia with a fully trained, registered, and controlled ESA dog could bring that dog anywhere.