No Chickens Allowed In My Area Of County?!!!

[LynneP]

4-H is such an amazing organization. I'm sure you'll find participants who will be thrilled to have the use of a part of your coop, and you will get to know so many wonderful folkd in your community!

 

[go-veggie]

Good luck to you......I just have to say, if it were me, I'd get maybe 3 or 4 hens and build a small, but sufficient chicken tractor, and see what happens. Some town employees are real jerks...sounds like you know that already. Our town chairman spent DAYS trying to find laws about chickens here and finally called to say he found nothing that says we couldn't have chickens. If he would have said no, I still would have tried to keep a few here. What is the worst that could happen? If you only have a few and you get busted, you could then look for a 4H person to keep them for you until the dust settles. I don't know, but we all know how keeping chickens in your backyard doesn't hurt anyone. Did you see that chicken tractor that looks like a garbage can? Pretty inconspicuous! If you do it, be sure you get chicks or hens from out of your town so no one knows. We all know how these people TALK! Even having them come to the post office by mail might not be a good idea. Find a hatchery an hour away or something. I'm not trying to tell you to do something illegal, but I just hate all these stupid regulations we all have to put up with, while they spend our tax dollars on new trucks to replace their 2 year old town trucks they just sold at an auction for 1/10th of what they're worth. GRRRRR! Ok, sorry, that just burns me up! Best wishes with everything! And

to the chicken hater lady you first talked to!!!!

Oh, and in Madison, WI, a HUGE town with small city lots, people can have up to 4 hens!!!!!
http://www.madcitychickens.com/

 

[McEgg]

this is EXACTLY what I am talking about.
can have a 160lb mastiff, no questions asked, who poops 4X as much as the hens do with twice the odor and thats ok. We won't mention the possibility of dog attacks. Don't worry Daisy (the dog) is a dork and immediate rolls on her back for ANYBODY to pet. She is afraid of other dogs. We got her not as an attack dog for protection, but hoping her size alone would scare off any unwanted people. It's working so far.
Don't get it with the crazy ordinances. I understand some people going overboard with the pets, but just put some restrictions on it. if you get X number of VALID complaints, no roos, X number of hens on X amount of property,etc.

 

[rooster0209]

The animal chart reads 8 chickens per acre or a fraction there of. Off spring of the chickens do not count toward the total until a year of age. If you have 1/2 acre = 4 chickens.

Depending on what district you are in, the way I read the ordinance on page 32-36, you can have chickens. There are notes that exclude swine.

http://www.co.yavapai.az.us/uploadedFiles/Ordinances/zoningordinance.pdf

 

[Florida chick]

If you need hatching eggs let us know! LOL

 

[AuntieRoo]

Thank you everyone for all of you support and ideas. I am going to send in my 4H leader application next week.

I can't wait to start getting my chickens. Thanks for the offer of hatching eggs.

Actually, I am a little concerned about the whole 4H thing as I am new to chickens. I hope that I can still be of help to another 4H chicken club maybe as an assistant or to my own club as a leader.

Actually, I kind of have my heart set on a few breeds of chickens. What I would really like is a few Black Copper Marans, Auracanas and Dominiques.

Thanks again everyone! I'll let you know if I get accepted as a 4H leader. I think it will take a bit of time so I may not get my chickens till spring unfortunately. I guess that will give me time to locate the breeds of chickens that I want.

 

[Karlachix]

AuntieRoo, I'm SO happy that helped!!! I hope everything works out for you and please do keep us updated on your progress.

That's actually the first time I've tried looking up an ordinance, but I just felt so bad for you and it seemed so unfair that I kept looking.


Yeah!!!

 

[taylorham]

I live in Northampton Cty, PA and have phoned the zoning office, emailed them regarding having two hens and they did not get back to me. Not sure where you are living...somewhere within the Whitehall area? But the other poster is correct. I believe they discourage any type of small livestock simply because they do not know the law. I am going to the court house and first seeing if they can help me locate the ordinance. After that I will phone an attorney to locate this for me and pay him a nominal fee. It would be worth it.:

 

[Akane]

Making it a 4-h project is easy. Just get the kids to look up info on keeping chickens, help build the coop/tractor, print out some stuff on different breeds, if you hatch from eggs try to find some way to let the kids record the incubator temps, have a chance turning them, demonstrate candling and the development of chicks inside the egg, get them involved in any record keeping, etc... I was in 4-h for 8years. It's real easy to look involved. One good presentation a year with a bit of hands on activity covers the yearly leadership requirement.

 

[Karlachix]

Maybe a good 4H project would be to work on changing the silly no chicken law and raising public awareness of the issue. Writing letters. Making signs. Eating pizza. Good clean fun!