Little story of the Incident that cemented my decision to get hens...

[Hoosierchickengal]

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Does the ordinance allow for a nice HIGH fence? Sometimes good fences do make good neighbors.

 

[CSWolffe]

@Hoosier,
Because most of my backyard borders a parking lot, I can get away with an 8' fence, instead of the 6' city ordinance requires for residential properties. I finally had the funds this year to put my privacy fence up against the two sides that border the lot. It looks much nicer than chain link, and kept nosy church goers from spying my coop before it was legal. Most of the folk who border the lot have an 8', and even Mr Jerk has raised the fence between our two properties up to 8'. I don't mind, it gives us each a little more privacy, but his carpentry skills match his etiquette. IE, they are both lacking. I cringe when I see his fence leaning and wavering all over the place. Even with a fence he can't peek over, he is bound to discover we have a coop, and knowing him, he will report us. Let him, I'm legal. Next year I tackle that side of the property, build my fence, my bbq pit and my wood fired pizza oven.
I also believe that raising meat animals ethically pretty much eliminates any of the ethical motivations for being vegetarian. If your food does not suffer, what do you have to object to? I'm jealous of how you get to raise your family. Country living is just not feasible for us right now, so we do what we can with what we have, and that means a garden, chickens and bees.
Can I take a moment to say how awesome this forum is? I belong to several other forums, but not one of them was nearly so welcoming as this one! You peeps are awesome!

 

[ChicksterJo]

Please let us know how your bee keeping turns out. I LOVE honey but am just scared of bees. I appreciate all the work that honeybees do, but I'm still respectfully afraid of them

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For people in situations like mine, I would suggest doing two things: getting to know your immediate neighbors and making sure you don't keep a roo if he's crowing. We have two immediate neighbors but we know them...and the house next door is practically empty so no one really hears the "bock bocks" ba-cocking

And yes, this forum and the people are amazing!!

 

[Jerseycoop]

Couldn't agree with you more..and it's the reason why I just recently got 7 chicks to raise for eggs. My grandparents and theirs before had a farm with livestock, my Mom and her siblings never took to it. Glad to get back to basics. I'm also happy to know that I'm in control of what my chickens eat and how they are raised. I think people have gotten use to commerically processed foods and many have never known what it is like to eat a fresh egg or a strawberry/tomato fresh off the vine..good for you

 

[gryeyes]

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That just made me snort my Diet Pepsi.