Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[jimmywalt]

Mara1, we agree that we should be able to keep chickens on our 59 acres. We hope to defend our case in court using Right To Farm. We live in Lake township, and there is a local township ordinance stating we are not permitted to keep farm animals or fowl on our residentially zoned property. Our home is 6/10ths of a mile off the road, and chickens cannot be seen nor heard from neighboring property. We are hoping to get rezoned agricultural so we can get goats as well. We will likely aquire more animals reguardless of zoning citing RTF.
I think this is a battle that will get larger as time goes on. Farm land gets rezoned to residential all the time. We likely won't have a chance in the world to get rezoned as agricultural. And giving townships say over weather we can keep chickens on OUR property that WE pay for, AND pay taxes on will likely push many of us out of legally owning chickens. RAZ knows this song all too well.

With 59 acres, how did anyone even find out you have chickens???? How many do you have???

WOW. I sure hope you win your case!

 

[RaZ]

Working on the front porch I found this beauty in a potted plant. Apparently also working on a front porch..,.

 

[RaZ]

Anyone for canary pictures?






Notice the wing colour and how they are carried.


This is the Saturday hatch. Let's call her Cal


This is the Sunday hatch with the splayed leg. Let's call her Hobbs.

I can't believe how much they are eating.

 

[1muttsfan]

Anyone need a dose of chick cuteness?

Farmerboy, very sorry to hear about your emus. Heifer is very cute, though.

 

[RaZ]

I like the grey ones with the black backs.
What kind are they?

 

[Opa]

Just wonderin', are canaries legal in Garden City?

 

[Folly's place]

Not sure about canaries; could they be cockatiels? Are they legal in GC? They grow them canaries BIG in Garden City!!! Mary

 

[RaZ]

§ 90.01 PETS; SALE OF ANIMALS; PROHIBITIONS.
(A) No person shall keep or house any animals or fowl within the city except dogs, cats, canaries, or animals commonly classified as pets, customarily kept or housed inside dwellings as household pets.
(B) No person shall sell, or offer for sale, barter, or give away baby chicks, rabbits, ducklings, or other fowl as pets or novelties, whether or not dyed, colored, or otherwise artificially treated. This division shall not be construed to prohibit the display or sale of natural chicks or ducklings in proper brooder facilities by hatcheries or stores engaged in the business of selling the same to be raised for commercial purposes.

 

[RaZ]

Oddly enough, in GC, the city mascot is a pig named Willy.
And then there is this,


If sarcasm is a crime, then I am a capital offender.

 

[1muttsfan]

The two that look like little penguins are Swedish Flower Hens; the four greyer ones are Cream Legbar cockerels