Ok, I'm back so a little back drop in what's going on ok. ( if you look in today's paper Montana standard .com ) there is a article by Ed randdel bob we call him, any ways he works for the pound, sort of a pound police lol. He loves to make laws and is constantly at it. Trying to make new ordinances blah blah blah . I dealt with him years ago when he worked as a social worker and tried to force me to give my grandson back to the mother who left him alone as a new born on a pile of laundry while she slept upstairs. Or stopped feeding him all together. Stating she was a young mom and would grow to do better. ( yeah she gave up 3 kids so far and had 4 ) when I got the second grand child he said I was not being fair to her, ( this time she left a month old infant in the swing while she was visiting neighbors. And over night on the floor when she was out cheating on my son. Both had issues, but my son loved the kids so I got them and refused to give them back. By the grace of God she has never fought me again, but of course it cost me a fortune to begin with. Any ways I digress...... So on the books they wanted to limit chickens, 6 in town ( 25 was allowed before if you had half an acre) well I have 8 and want 4 more. Six as I explained to them would give me only a few eggs in winter since I do not light my coop, mine are not production birds so not apt to lay like mad, and I have never heard of chickens being dangerous or running rampant so what is the problem ? In fact no one really knows who has chickens as there pretty hush hush ! I explained I raise grand kids, on my income which is small I need the eggs and if they have never been a problem, no one has ever complained, what's mr. Randall's problem?
A comissioner who i spoke with earlier in the day ( yes i was that mad) says well, i see nothing about being grand fathered in, in case they try to take some of yours away, brings it up in the town meeting And one of the commissioners says well it says in article blah blah blah.... And she speaks up in my defense and says that does not say anything about how many, so in other words she is ok with what she has . I speak up and tell him, yeah 25 chickens maybe to much for a small back yard, but.... 10 for me is a small flock, and my neighbors all love my girls. They come feed them and they et eggs during the summer months. I told them about molting, no eggs, I told them about light, no eggs, I explained if you limit to 6 chickens, chances are you will get 3 or 4 on a good day in summer. That some breeds do not lay every day, even more then a few a week ( like that silly BCM I have lol. I get an egg every few weeks!
And only a few during winter months if your lucky. One guy tried to close the talks with putting on the back burner until they can discuss it more, but one man spoke upand said it was never a problem for Butte, heck who really cares as long as there not rampant and dirty and people were complaining ,which only one woman did and she hated her neighbor any ways so when she got chickens she had something to complain about. He said I say we just drop this, delete it from the books and call it a day. Any one disapprove? Not one did! We won .......! Oh and not one other person in my town showed up
so I fought for everyone! And I won!
