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I would be okay with having to be registered as a breeder/hobbyist. I would even be happy to disclose the breeds that I have and allow an inspection. I would even pay a reasonable permit fee, if absolutly neccessary, but I wouldn't bring that up unless I had to. lol
I agree with RHRanch-and all of the above. I have 3 month old EE's, 2 American Javas, 3 Leghorns, and hopefully Creveceours to hatch this week. I live on .49 acre, homeschool, and I plan to have my 9 yr. old daughter and I build our rare breed collection, slowly but surely, so that we are preserving and supporting critically endangered breeds AND, so that IF, and I mean if, everyone's right about my daughter not being able to function on her own when she's older, we wanted to make this a life-long enabling ability for her since we really love our chickens.
I am completely bewildered in reading the County's own ordinance plan that they are skipping logical reasoning in their own ordinance proposal. On page one, they said surrounding states say its a felony to cockfight, so why didn't they propose to make it a felony to cockfight instead of jumping to this level? I'm also wondering if they plan on rounding up all the rooster they can find and shipping them out of county? How weird! Or were they going to eat them? It also stated that there would be no impact on the environment. (Have they NOT READ the Critically endangered list and that there are many of us supporting and raising those numbers of those lists so that they dont go extinct? Since it takes a male to have a baby, well, how is that supposed to happen with only hens?) I get it, there's how many chickens in the world? Millions, but there is also an importance to keep important existing lines of breeds open, even fi they are just chickens. Am I wrong? (I didn't finish the ordinance proposal, just the first page so far. My daughter and I will go to the meeting BowmansBirds...I need to sign up still.
And, my rant...my 2 neighbors and I just spent at least a couple thousand dollars between all three of us building coops, runs, purchasing chickens, geese, farm animals. That's a lot of money (although most of my stuff is from the shed