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[disneytvl]

Thanks for the tips, I've actually continued conversations off line with a couple people that may be able to take him/her. I'd love to keep the chick, but our town has bylaws prohibiting chickens and other "livestock." There are people considering working to change them, apparently another town with similar laws repealed theirs when the argument was made that other birds are allowed to be kept as pets, so why not chickens .... so maybe someday we'll be able to get our own.

My daughter is hoping she/he will go someplace that we could visit, so I'm hoping a friend of ours may reconsider; otherwise I'll have to see if the lovely people on this forum, who offered to take the chick, would mind an 8 yr old coming to check on her chick from time to time

 

[Joy1]

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Are you sure it's not just cockerels that are banned?They need to change that law!

 

[disneytvl]

Yes, I'm sure, it's all chickens - anything that could be considered livestock. A family friend had hens for almost a year, until a new neighbor complained and animal control came and gave them a week to find them a new home - they are now living happily on a farm in Maine, I believe, and get visits from their family as often as possible.

I'd love to change the law, and I know many others that would as well. It may end up on Town Meeting's schedule next spring, as that's the soonest a change could be made, I'm told.

 

[SewingDiva]

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Oh gosh you have my complete and total empathy, and even though my town (Westwood,we're on the south shore) allows chickens I know that each town and city in MA very much does its own thing with this regulation; One town can say "no" and the next town over can be okay with it, there no logic to it whatsoever from the research I've done.

However, very recently (like within the last 2 months), I read in the Globe that Salem finally amended their bylaws and allowed pet chickens. So it can happen, and I think with Town Meeting government it might actually be easier to accomplish than with city or town government.

You can change that law!

~Phyllis