NY chicken lover!!!!

[horsekeeper]

Breela, leave out the part about starting an agricultural business. To city folk that conjures up an image of big manure piles, flies, rats, critters jammed in like factory farms, you get the idea. Focus more on your chickens as pets and a source of fresh healthy food. Perhaps add information that a chicken crow is not as loud as a dog barking and you are confining them until later in the day to mute any noise.

Have you thought of inviting them to meet the chickens and try some fresh eggs? Most of my city/urban visitors are fascinated by meeting the chickens and ask a lot of interested questions. Again, emphasize that this is your pet that someone wants destroyed.

 

[AQHAchick22]

Breela, leave out the part about starting an agricultural business.  To city folk that conjures up an image of big manure piles, flies, rats, critters jammed in like factory farms, you get the idea.  Focus more on your chickens as pets and a source of fresh healthy food.  Perhaps add information that a chicken crow is not as loud as a dog barking and you are confining them until later in the day to mute any noise.

Have you thought of inviting them to meet the chickens and try some fresh eggs?  Most of my city/urban visitors are fascinated by meeting the chickens and ask a lot of interested questions.  Again, emphasize that this is your pet that someone wants destroyed.

Thats what I forgot to add. Leave out the agricultural business part. That may cause people to visualize more roosters as well...

 

[armorfirelady]

Great letter brealla......hope it works

 

[miquwid]

Brella good letter and I agree with horsekeeper.

Rancher I will be putting up pics soon. Omg I will build through winter I'm trying to stop that this year. I hope you get your two girls back.

Ke5 love your girls they are beautiful.

Lynzi I think the reason why those coops break is usually damage in shipping.

I rebuilt one that was a rabbit hutch into my silkies coop.

Nutty I hope you feel better soon

Feathers goodness a week out in the woods wow, well there is no woods around me so if my girls get out that's it.

 

[marquisella]

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I agree, but one word about your lights & timer. Realize that your hens will most likely stop laying eggs if they don't have 15 hours of light during the winter. You could make up for the lack of light by keeping you coops lights on later at night. It doesn't matter as long as they get the 15hours a day.

People will say that the light going out suddenly at night will confuse the hens. It doesn't. Mine go off at 7pm when it is already dark. When I go in at 5pm during the winter,, they are already on the roost. They know when its time to roost, whether a light is on or not. but the light still keeps their laying cycle going.

 

[Glasshen]

Breella, that is a good letter. I like the suggestions others have made and wonder if mentioning that since you are in the old homestead that you are zoned for agriculture, or whether that would cause more trouble. Or perhaps saying ?have checked with the town and I am able to have ... Just a little more explanation than before.

Is this a time when My year and maybe a half old rooster should be molting? He has been pretty ugly due to some unhappy hen (could it be a love polygon?) but he has lost even more feathers so I feared he would morph from his current rump less look to a naked neck rump less Speckled Sussex. He does seem to be getting new head and neck feathers, if those girls would keep their beaks off him.

 

[boskelli1571]

Good letter, very reasonable. It shows that you are willing to negotiate even though you are technically in the right. I love the baby monitor idea - nice one! sue

 

[AQHAchick22]

I'm getting rid of my 5 month old Egyptian fayoumi rooster. I also have a 3 month old welsummer roo that I would be willing to part with, and a year old golden sebright roo. I have too many roosters...ugh free to anyone on here.

 

[Breella]

The officer left me a voicemail last night saying that Karen from Brouliette would call me, she never did. She doesn't want my rooster. Thanks for all the suggestions about my letter. I gave one out to every neighbor who's yard borders mine. I spoke to two neighbors who I saw and they said that they have no problem with my rooster, one neighbor said he liked it. The other neighbor who is right next to me and who's yard buts up right next to the coop (and who has several young children) said that he doesn't bother her or her family at all.

Also, the property I want just went down $10,500. I'm going to town hall monday to inquire about land rights agreements because it looks like someone is farming the back 10 acres of it. If they are hay fields I don't mind so long as this person would either pay me or pay me with hay to use part of the property I want. Fingers crossed and thinking positive!

 

[Tough Old Bird]

....and any gravel placement is temporary, as gravel is portable...The gravel is migrating down hill. They love to scratch it around....I advise against gravel.

With all this rain, I have had similar issues with the sand that I like to spread around the outside pen for dusting and just to combat the beaten-down, hard-packed clay and dirt. Much of the sand has been washed downhill outside of the pen. Grrrrr.....

TOB