NY chicken lover!!!!

[akaruby]

IF it is not open to the public - how is this government!?   I know I am in Vermont - but ANY meeting - even a brainstorming one - has to be subject to Open Meeting Laws if it is municipal, state or such.   ONLY clubs or things like that can have closed meetings.

I was on my local Planning Commission - and most of the time - the people deciding do NOT know the facts ... and the person who stomps the loudest gets their way - one reason I am not one any more and doing things from the other end.       The more people you bring - the more easy to read handouts you give and the more you can say and prove and video - the better.   BE PERSISTENT.

Well the planning board first met in March, it was a private meeting and that's when they proposed an ordinance banning all sorts of livestock, bees etc. the public meeting had many chicken supporters so they had to go back to the drawing board. And you are so right that the person who stomps the loudest gets their way because that's how this all started.

@rancher hicks I put together a whole report about backyard chickens and the benefits, why people do it. The report has the commonalities in ordinances I saw in New York State. There's also a spreadsheet that is easier to read with what ordinances seem to include. It's very detailed and the code officer seemed to really appreciate the time I took to put it all together.

I'm really hoping the meeting goes well on Monday. Thank you all for your support and advice!

 

[Metella]

Good luck ! remember it was people who made the rules, and all ALL all of the laws and even our constitution can be updated ! So hang in there and keep making it easy for them to change That helps a lot too.

 

[Metella]

Hello. I need help. I will buy your extra eggs weekly as I have a buyer . They want 20 dozen a week and I just can't do it alone right now. I travel to binghamton every other Tuesday and live in harpursville. Its not a lot of money but $2.00 per dozen. Send me a pm if your interested in helping provide fresh eggs.

Too bad we are not closer .... my DH switched jobs and I lost all my egg customers as he goes the opposite way now ... since he is a quiet guy- it will take years for him to offer my eggs to new coworkers.

and I am about sick to death of scrambled eggs !!!

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Too bad we are not closer .... my DH switched jobs and I lost all my egg customers as he goes the opposite way now ... since he is a quiet guy- it will take years for him to offer my eggs to new coworkers.  

and I am about sick to death of scrambled eggs !!!    

I know the feeling. We get 13-18 eggs a day and have a bunch of babies on the way.

 

[Pyxis]

Look what I got

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Look what I got

So cute!!! What kind of ducks are they? Freakin adorable ducklings!

 

[horsekeeper]

Look what I got

Oh, my! Are those little geese? I have a dozen already and more pipping right now. They are so cute and social.

 

[rancher hicks]

A spitzhauben in a peach tree.




Thanks Akaruby, my son loves the spitz he got from you. And the silkie.

Tell me you don't have flowers on you peach tree already. Seems to me a "Spitzen in a Pear tree", would have made more sense than a "Partridge". Spitzens would lay bigger eggs.

 

[Pyxis]

So cute!!! What kind of ducks are they? Freakin adorable ducklings!

Oh, my!  Are those little geese?  I have a dozen already and more pipping right now.  They are so cute and social. 

Thank you both! They are roman tufted goslings

 

[PhoredaBurds]

Thank you both! They are roman tufted goslings

I'm jealous! I love goslings!