need to vent....

[gatorgal]

hate to say it, but I have a similar mind to PickyChickie. What can you get that's more annoying than the roo and legal, too. I'd get that thing (chainsaw, hotrod, something REALLY stinky) and wear her out with it.

 

[Picky Chicky]

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[Camelot Farms]

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I keep telling DH that I am buying a donkey....the loudest braying donkey I can find and building it a pen on the property line....bahahaaa!

 

[mistyfeather]

Go and get neighbors to sign a petition to change the ordanance! it has worked for many places here in colorado. were i live we have always been able to keep chickens, there is no limit except you can only have as many as you can properly care for! just no roos as there is a noise ordanance

i want a roo! if enough people are for it they will cange it. they may charge fees tho. they pased a law in ft. colins co. near by us alowing chickens but you have to aply to own them and then pay there fee. but that is better then no chickens!

 

[AtHomeDaddy]

Wow, this is deja vu all over again for me. My neighbor called to get her key back after we disagreed over a fence. When I returned the key she decided to hassle me about my birds.

She announced that my rooster was keeping her up, but I had gotten rid of the illegal rooster 2 days after his first crow. Otherwise my birds are legal, so I did not have to worry too much about it, but it was a hassle to prove it all to the city.

Ditch the roo and keep the outlaws on the down low for a while. Maybe the neighbor will forget they are there. (but my girls work too hard for the eggs to share them with a cranky neighbor!)

 

[Whispering Winds]

I spent Monday night, missing my DS's Xmas program, to go with some clients of mine to a small town village board meeting. These sellers have a darling little ranch house on the edge of town, with ten acres. A cemetery is on one side of the pasture, an open field across the road, and a neighbor with 2.5 acres next door. We knew it was in city limits, and NO livestock was allowed. It all started back several years ago, when the seller beat out the village for the purchase of it at an auction. The village wanted it for additional cemetery plots and my client beat them out. So, hard feelings there, and that is when they determined NO animals of any kind if it was livestock. All we asked for was horses be allowed. Anyway, one of the board members spoke up and said he was told, "RIGHT TO MY FACE", he said, that if they rezoned my people's land for horses, they were going to get . . . .CHICKENS. You would have thought he said ten METH labs. I stood right up, said if you take the time to go to BYC and check it out, you will see where a lot of the smaller municipalities are relaxing their laws on chickens, and are allowing people to have 4-6 hens with NO roosters. I went on to state how we need to become more self-sufficient, and it might be a very worthwhile thing to think about. Well, we were shot down, and I was sick I missed a very special Christmas program for a bunch of stick in the muds that not even really discussed it, just said they were going to go by what the old laws said. I even asked them if they could annex their home and 10 acres out of the city, but they looked at me like I had two heads. I love small town politics.

I live in a small one horse town, and it must be zoned agricultural from one end to the other because almost everyone has some kind of livestock. If they ever rezone, we are in BIG trouble!!!

 

[chickflick]

Since you live in a rural area and have other farms surrounding you....look into the Right to Farm act. It worked for many people. Good Luck!!

 

[Mac in Wisco]

How close is your neighbor? I lived in a residential area in Texas that had 1 acre lots. We had a rooster in the backyard that crowed it's head off, several hundred times a day. When I first asked the neighbors if the rooster was bothering them, they pretty much all had the same response "You have chickens?"

 

[GOSPELSOLDIER]

now my ordinance do say that the town can regulate poultry pens to prevent the slaughtering of pultry in the land and its remains deisposed wrongly. but does NOT say i cant have chickens or farm pets you need to chck your towns ordinace....correctly.

good luck and dont be scared again im still here and so are my animals

**post edited due to overuse of profanity. (Profanity disguised is still profanity)**

 

[laruec]

Thanks everyone for the advice and understanding.

I HAVE talked to the town- did so as soon as she let me have any indication that she didn't like them- the town knows that I have chickens where I am not supposed to, but won't do anything until she formally complains (which is why I have kept them). Also, like many of you said, we live in a rural area- I doubt our town will be excited about passing an ordinance that sets standards that others will have to follow- since there are so many around with chickens...

I am by no means upset that she is reporting me, and recognize that she is within her rights- I am merely frustrated by her attitude and approach (screaming at me) to it- I just think it's babyish, .... but am trying to take the higher ground (no need to give her extra ammunition towards me, right?)