NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

http://www.waynepost.com/feature/x1039446299/Dispute-nothing-to-cluck-about?zc_p=0

Well this story hits close to home...The town is trying to tell this family that they can't have chickens on their residential property. How exactly is it a financial gain to raise your own eggs?! It cost more!
Anyone else run into this? We are a small, very under populated area. On top of the fact that our entire county is zoned agricultural...I'll stop ranting.

What galls me is the trouble we used to have in the city of Syracuse with loose and barking dogs. I am quite sure their neighbors never stepped in pile of dog poop nor stuck their hand in cat crap that the loose cats buried in their flower beds. I have!!

As for rats?? They can be attracted by many things and I say prove it was the chickens and not the neighbors cat food. I had skunks come into the garage for the cat food but have seen none since I got chickens and no longer have cats. If fact I keep feed in plastic jugs inside my runs and have no problem with rodents of any kind!! I catch more mice in the back room where food is not stored than anywhere near my coops.

As for "gain"?? You must be joking. With four chickens?

 

[Lynzi777]

http://www.waynepost.com/feature/x1039446299/Dispute-nothing-to-cluck-about?zc_p=0

Well this story hits close to home...The town is trying to tell this family that they can't have chickens on their residential property. How exactly is it a financial gain to raise your own eggs?! It cost more!
Anyone else run into this? We are a small, very under populated area. On top of the fact that our entire county is zoned agricultural...I'll stop ranting.

Thats a shame...Especially over 4 chickens! And the whole "financial gain" dispute, that just goes to show you how little those people know!

Well I placed the 3 silkie eggs along with the one additional one that was laid this morning, in the nest box of the silkie coop. Now it's time to wait and see if someone decides to sit on them. I placed the two larger silkie chicks in with the adults yesterday and they seem to doing better than last week. they had a little growth spurt this week so I think now that they're almost as big as the smallest hen no on is going to bother them much. I haven't heard much squawking coming from that coop so I'm assuming all is good.

My window is replaced on the car so now I'm sitting here contemplating where I can go. LOL

 

[JLaw]

what kills me about that storie is they are only considered a farm because they eat the chickens. So i guess all the egg farms aren't really farms. An what happens if some one moves in and they raise and eat dog or cat? Are they now a farm? Some people do eat them.

 

[Cass]

Sorry to hear about your hen.

Thats so odd. When I found one of my white silkies injured out in the yard last summer I buried him in the woods when he didn't end up making it thru the afternoon.

If I liked the dead bird I bury it. If it made me mad or was a mean hen I throw it in a bag and send it to the dump. If it dies in the winter, it's landfill. If I had to kill it because it had a problem, I cry and cry and cry and then I bury it out by the pond and a couple of mallards that didn't make it.

 

[Lapeerian]

Finally got a chance to get on the real computer to upload the stuck duck pics.


And today we were able to identify it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Merganser

 

[stonykill]

read the story. Sucks yes. BUT if the town is solely zoned residential and there is not a chicken ordinance, sorry to say it but ....... the town has a right.
Raising chickens to eat for personal consumption isn't farming, it is homesteading. But none the less, they have a fight with zoning.
My entire town is zoned AG and light commercial. My town supervisor who has been a lifelong friend is a farmer and encourages everyone in town to farm to one extent or another.

Sucks for these people. The rats thing is a bunch of garbage. I wish them the best

 

[stonykill]

Finally got a chance to get on the real computer to upload the stuck duck pics.


And today we were able to identify it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Merganser

that is not a duck. Looks like a Merganser. Poor thing.


edit...ooops you identified it as a Merganser. Didn't see that

 

[JLaw]

ok miss read the artical alittle about them being a farm. But i think the rat problem has to do with the smiths who just moved in and are eating all the cats. The chicken feed isn't the problem. Or there are some dirty neighbors. Or dog catcher catching too many cats.

 

[Glasshen]

Lap, I'm having a hard time making that look like a duck, except for its feet.

We dug a hole with the back hoe, always can use the practice, and I put Lady in, and covered her up.

It's been so nasty here I had to pu on layers of fleece!

 

[Cass]

The moving eggs have hatched. Three of four. Given how many times I moved this batch of eggs from hen to hen, nest box to nest box I am surprised ANY hatched, but glad some did.

Stony, I'm catching up with your hatching. I have 5 so far. (so I'm not catching up very fast.

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