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[SunnyDawn]

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Oh man! Now I'm bummed out! That looks like fun! Why don't we get things like that here?

 

[gitlost80]

So I just read on here that you cant have chickens in Sparks? I live in Spanish Springs, and I called Animal Control before I got them and they said it was ok. What gives? Now Im stressing out! Anyone help me out with info....?

 

[evonne]

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sometimes animal control doesn't read the codes.....
and that falls into the same category as i'm in... unless someone complains about my "illegal" roosters animal control doesn't care... and my neighbors are to ignorant to know just becasue i can have the goats and the donkey doesn't mean i can have everything....
also, i'm less than 1 mile from the R.C. pig farm, but i can't have a pig either... but i bet if i got one noone would know i wasn't sposed to have it... we think they instituted the pig theing to keep the farm from trying to expand.. lol...
poor guy has been there forever and people but out here and then pitch a fit because of the smell.....
research.. but again.. these are the people who are too stupid to know that my rooster that crows and annoys them shouldn't be there... lol...

don't worry about it till they come knocking...

 

[evonne]

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oohhh i'm totally going now.. i was thinking about it.. but i'd love to see that dressing demo....
i'll email them tomorrow AM and reserve my spot.... might bring a few of my birds.. i have some roos i need to get rid of.. lol...
OOOHHHHHH maybe i'll bring my MFC's to show off.... hhmm maybe not... don't want to expose them to anything.... hhhmmmmm

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Who said you can't have them? I've heard of people getting incorrect information from the police, from the city offices etc, etc. Ask whoever told you that you want to know the specific code # so that you can look it up. Unfortunately this area loves it's CC&Rs so you might be an an area that forbids it even if the city allows it. Besides if Animal control said you can who are you gonna be in trouble with anyway? Do you have roos? Most neighbors are OK with just hens and wouldn't make a fuss even if it's not allowed.

 

[gitlost80]

Washoe County Code...Article 330 doesnt say anything about it being prohibited,it does say something about 6 hens per 6,000 feet(i think its a code for 4H?), but nothing about Roosters. My back yard is 21,000 feet! Im gonna wing it. My neighbors on one side already know about my babies under the heat lamp, but my other neighbors dont,but they have a dog that barks anytime im in my own yard,so screw it. They can lock me up!LoL P.S I have 4 hens for sure, and 2 straight run chicks,1 of which i believe is a Roo, and will keep reguardless. Im a mother of 2 sons, and cant justify getting rid of any boy i raised, even if he is loud, obnoxious, and the neighbors dont like him. That could be describing any one of my boys,including my boyfriend!

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Are you within City limits? You don't fall under county codes you fall under city codes if you live in Sparks proper. Sounds like you'll be fine either way though. Awesome!
I heard a rooster crow earlier today at a house a little ways away from mine and called my neighbors to be sure they knew it wasn't mine, since I had agreed to not keep any roos. I also told them that I was getting a few new chicks in April but would stick to our agreement and sell the roos off even though I would love to keep one for breeding.
She shocked me by saying that she didn't care if I did keep a roo! This is so different from the reaction I got last year! Her DH was raised on a farm so he doesn't care but she was horrified by the idea of being woken up by a rooster crowing. Last year anyway.
I asked her why she had changed her mind and she said it had bothered her so much that we had had to dispatch one of our chickens last year because of her objections (ordered pullets but got 1 roo out of the 21) that she had decided then and there that if it happened again she was going to tell me to go ahead and keep the roo. It was just too hard to think of me having to kill another bird. So I can finally have fertile eggs and hatch my own chicks! I wouldn't have killed the purebred ameraucanas since I can find homes for them easy enough but it's sure nice to be able to keep one!

Well I actually have 2 more neighbors to convince but they are the easy ones. I'm so happy! This time next year I can hatch my own eggs!

 

[ke_ben]

Congrats on being able to keep the roo, Sunny. It is fun hatching out your own chicks even if you are not keeping them.

Hey, Evonne, we processed our last meat bird yesterday and surprise, she had started laying eggs. They aren't supposed to be prolific layers but she had already laid 4 eggs under a little shelter I had set up for her. I thought for a second about keeping her but I knew/know better because she was a slow mover and if you got her even a little excited she had a hard time breathing so I went ahead. I had kept a couple to get bigger for frying whole, like a turkey, so she was 20.5 weeks old and weighed 14lb 4oz. She dressed out at 10lb 8oz (carcass only, no 'extras') because she was full of yolks.

UPDATE on the hatch, 69 of 80 with eggtospies coming today on the remaining 11 that the eggs candled full but just didn't hatch. The incubator doesn't get quite as much TLC as it does when I have it at home so that reduced the hatch rate a little but we have 19 ducks and 50+ chicks locked down for Thursday.

My wife is downsizing her goat herd, she got a mama and 2 kid Dwarf Nigerians for anniversary/Valentines on Sat.

Have a great week everyone and welcome newbie's!

 

[evonne]

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lol.. you guys have goats too??? darn... if i wasn't in the middle of trying to figure out living situations i might see about getting some more.. lol...
what type of ducks do you guys have???
and speaking of living situations.... anything interesting for rent out there that you know of??

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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That is how you downsize huh - add to the flock?

(I know, just

me

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SunnyDawn - Fantastic about the roosters!