Is it legal

[ChickensXOXO]

I quote:
"(8) The chicken hens may not be killed by or at the direction of the owner or keeper thereof except pursuant to the lawful order of state or county health officials, or for the purpose of euthanasia when surrendered to a licensed veterinarian or the Humane Society for such purpose, or as otherwise expressly permitted by law."

This has to be the DUMBEST thing I've ever read. The government loves to take away people's rights.
Back in the old days, I'm sure folks would have laughed if someone said that!
Good thing I live in Nowhere, North Carolina.

 

[Ole rooster]

I think that law was designed to keep the witch doctors from using chickens in their rituals. That makes as much sense as the law. I'm feeling better and better about Georgia.

 

[duckinnut]

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Sorry to say, they do regulate that. I believe that Fort Collins, Colorado, allows chickens but specifically states that you cannot butcher them.

I quote:
"(8) The chicken hens may not be killed by or at the direction of the owner or keeper thereof except pursuant to the lawful order of state or county health officials, or for the purpose of euthanasia when surrendered to a licensed veterinarian or the Humane Society for such purpose, or as otherwise expressly permitted by law."

Seems like a dumb restriction to me, but what do I know? What are you supposed to do if a coon gets in your coop at midnight and injures a bird so bad that you need to kill it out of mercy? Wait till 9am and take it to a vet to humanely euthanize it? How is that humane, letting it suffer for 9 hours until you can PAY BIG BUCKS to have someone do the dead.

Ummmm yes officer,well you see the chickens were playing in the yard and 2 slipped and fell onto the ax. I told them not to play around it.

 

[Martha80]

I think a court in Wisconsin just ruled that you are not entitled to drink the 'raw milk' from cows that you own.

 

[NanaLantana]

Please, whatever you do, don't go to any county building to ask permission to kill your chickens for food! They'll quickly make up some CRAZY new law for all the rest of us! Just do it, and enjoy your home-grown food. Put the innards in a baggie, freeze them, and let them go out with the next garbage pickup. Or cook them up and chop and give them back to the chickens. I'd bag the feathers, too, if your not going to bury them.
I have a friend who buys raw milk from a neighbor - she brings her own jugs, and is handed a piece of paper that says the milk is not for human comsumption! The farmer is required to state that . She says she's giving it to her dogs - We live in an over-regulated America, in my opinion. But then, I'm old, and I remember the days when government was minimal in our lives. I'm not sure what happened - - -

 

[wrestling_mom]

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HENS, didn't say nuffin' bout no rooster. LOL. There's your loophole!!

 

[Ole rooster]

Good eye. Kill all the roosters you care too.

 

[Alas]

Just more government intervention to keep us living as consumers instead of producers.

 

[Haywire]

I bet if you read the rest of that law, you aren't allow to have roosters at all because of a noise ordinance.

Ian

 

[ChickDaze]

Do it without asking, unless someone would see you most definately. I didn't check to have chickens, but then again, I don't have to have a permit to have a yard sale. I live outside the city limits. If you do as well, it may be okay for that reason. You need to be ingenious to own chickens. Find a loophole.

About that milk. Aren't you supposed to boil it to make it okay?