Mangum, OK law

[Hei 20]

Nope. I thought that was a flannel baby blanket he was snuggling in to, LOL!

I'm of the livestock persuasion. It literally never occurred to me that was a diaper for a chicken. Sorry!

Yes he wears diapers and sometimes pants too.
I know, I know, I got issues. LOL
But he is my baby

 

[Pye Wacket]

Yes he wears diapers and sometimes pants too.
I know, I know, I got issues. LOL
But he is my baby

OMG those look like teeny tiny leg warmers! What are they for? Or are they diapers too?

 

[Hei 20]

OMG those look like teeny tiny leg warmers! What are they for? Or are they diapers too?

LOL. Well is a long story. LOL
I made the pants myself. After I dressed him up as a girl one day. I thought it was hen in the beginning. So I felt bag for dressing him up as a girl. LOL
It was just a photo session. LOL

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

What kind of chicken is hei hei?)

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

LOL. Well is a long story. LOL
I made the pants myself. After I dressed him up as a girl one day. I thought it was hen in the beginning. So I felt bag for dressing him up as a girl. LOL
It was just a photo session. LOL

(What type is he?)

 

[Pye Wacket]

LOL. Well is a long story. LOL
I made the pants myself. After I dressed him up as a girl one day. I thought it was hen in the beginning. So I felt bag for dressing him up as a girl. LOL
It was just a photo session. LOL

AHAHAHAHAHA! Now he looks like he's dressed up for a Mexican Fiesta! NOBODY TELL HIM WHAT'S IN THE BURRITOS!!!!

 

[Hei 20]

(What type is he?)

Sorry, I still don't know. I was told in this site that he is a mix of mixes. LOL

 

[rosemarythyme]

3. A lot for authorized animals, properly fenced so as to contain the animal within the lot, shall be of sufficient length to contain six hundred (600) square feet of space. Not more than one-fourth (1/4) of the space in square feet herein indicated shall be used for the purpose of maintaining a shed or barn to house any animal that may be permitted under this section to be kept within the City limits.

4. The outside limits of any lot within which an animal is to be confined, and of the shed or barn, shall not and must not be located a distance any closer than fifty feet (50') from any residence or dwelling inhabited or intended to be inhabited by human beings, and the maintaining of the lot, shed or barn at any distance less than fifty feet (50') from the dwelling is expressly prohibited.

So ... that IS a joke, right? Because I have never seen a front yard where it would be safe to put a coop, not inside a town where you can't put up (a) field fencing anywhere it can be seen and/or (b) any fencing at all taller than 2.5 to 3'.

Plus chickens in town, even where they are allowed (and particularly in a town like Mangum where it appears they've put an ordinance in place that only TECHNICALLY allows chickens inside city limits)

Do you have the legal definition for "authorized animals" as noted above, like is there a specific list? This sounds like housing for larger livestock (i.e. goats/pigs up to horses/cows) and not necessarily for smaller livestock, such a poultry, rabbits, etc.

If this is meant to include ANY livestock including poultry then that's really rough, a 50' setback requirement is nearly impossible to get on most in-city lots unless you have acreage to work with.

Re: front yards. Very rarely are animals allowed to be housed in a "front yard" unless you're in a rural/agricultural area. I technically have no backyard (on 4 acres, but "backyard" is no bigger than an average suburban one) so all animals, outbuildings, etc. go in my front yard. But I'm exempt from any city ordinances.

 

[Pye Wacket]

Do you have the legal definition for "authorized animals" as noted above, like is there a specific list? This sounds like housing for larger livestock (i.e. goats/pigs up to horses/cows) and not necessarily for smaller livestock, such a poultry, rabbits, etc.

If this is meant to include ANY livestock including poultry then that's really rough, a 50' setback requirement is nearly impossible to get on most in-city lots unless you have acreage to work with.

Re: front yards. Very rarely are animals allowed to be housed in a "front yard" unless you're in a rural/agricultural area. I technically have no backyard (on 4 acres, but "backyard" is no bigger than an average suburban one) so all animals, outbuildings, etc. go in my front yard. But I'm exempt from any city ordinances.

Yup, those paragraphs were SPECIFICALLY for chickens and other barnyard fowls. They have definitions that specifically excuse "exotics" like hawks and whatnot from being kept AT ALL. I'm pretty sure there was a specific exclusion for peafowl, also not allowed to be kept at all. Not that any of those are particularly surprising - but chickens? *sigh*

I wish I could remember which city it was that had the same rules for gerbils, hamsters, rabbits, ferrets and other small mammals which had the same language as that city had for chickens, which included not having them closer to the house or anybody else's house than 50' (and specifically stating they were not allowed to be kept INSIDE the home). I'm pretty sure it was somewhere I couldn't afford to live anyway.

Again, the vast majority of the homes in Mangum are on plots that are only 50' wide - one I looked at was only 44' wide. I'm a midwestern girl and the propensity of southwestern cities to put houses on long narrow lots still astounds me. And when I say city I don't really mean "city", but small semi-rural towns and suburbs. Those are cities to me but not to much of anybody else these days, LOL! I mean Mangum has a population of something a bit over 3,000, and to me - still a city.

When I was rural, I didn't have a yard. I had land or acreage, LOL!

I'll go look it up so I can quote it exactly but Mangum/Greer County doesn't use the same setup most other OK municipalities use to publish their ordinances, so I have to google around to find it again. It'll be awhile.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Are quail permitted? Could be a suitable alternative to backyard chickens, but you would absolutely need to keep them in cages as EVERYTHING eats quail.