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Take a look at these ordinances and rules for Dickinson Twp in Cumberland County. There is a 100 ft set-back from other properties (not just buildings) that you need to meet to be able to have chickens. If you can't have the coop 100 from property lines, then no chickens, but if you do meet the 100 ft set back, you can have 1000 chickens? What a strange rule. Nearby municipalities are much more reasonable. Even Mt Holly allows chickens in town (no roosters). Our friend moved from Mt. Holly (small back yard in town) and now lives on 1 acre and was visited by the zoning officer and now has to get rid of her flock. They don't meet the 100 ft due to odd plot shape, but the neighboring properties are farmed land!

Anyone else ever run into this kind of archaic ordinance about chickens? She formed a group on facebook to get support to have the ordinance amended. I wish them luck, we'll be adopting her flock for awhile and hopefully they can return home. Offer support if you live in the area.
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Take a look at these ordinances and rules for Dickinson Twp in Cumberland County. There is a 100 ft set-back from other properties (not just buildings) that you need to meet to be able to have chickens. If you can't have the coop 100 from property lines, then no chickens, but if you do meet the 100 ft set back, you can have 1000 chickens? What a strange rule. Nearby municipalities are much more reasonable. Even Mt Holly allows chickens in town (no roosters). Our friend moved from Mt. Holly (small back yard in town) and now lives on 1 acre and was visited by the zoning officer and now has to get rid of her flock. They don't meet the 100 ft due to odd plot shape, but the neighboring properties are farmed land!

Anyone else ever run into this kind of archaic ordinance about chickens? She formed a group on facebook to get support to have the ordinance amended. I wish them luck, we'll be adopting her flock for awhile and hopefully they can return home. Offer support if you live in the area.
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I actually have heard of this.
 
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) said:
Take a look at these ordinances and rules for Dickinson Twp in Cumberland County. There is a 100 ft set-back from other properties (not just buildings) that you need to meet to be able to have chickens. If you can't have the coop 100 from property lines, then no chickens, but if you do meet the 100 ft set back, you can have 1000 chickens? What a strange rule. Nearby municipalities are much more reasonable. Even Mt Holly allows chickens in town (no roosters). Our friend moved from Mt. Holly (small back yard in town) and now lives on 1 acre and was visited by the zoning officer and now has to get rid of her flock. They don't meet the 100 ft due to odd plot shape, but the neighboring properties are farmed land!

Anyone else ever run into this kind of archaic ordinance about chickens? She formed a group on facebook to get support to have the ordinance amended. I wish them luck, we'll be adopting her flock for awhile and hopefully they can return home. Offer support if you live in the area.
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That's so upsetting! I hope she can get that ordinance changed! We'd be in trouble if they said that here. Or coop is MAYBE 20 feet from the property line but it's only an occasional neighbor who really could care less about them. My coop isn't movable but you better believe there would be a new one, exactly 100' from the line. Do you have the link to the Facebook page she started?

MotorcycleChick said:
A student at the Bellwood/Antis high school brought a gun to school today. Fortunately, they only took pictures with friends, and posted them on Facebook.
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So very scary. That's way too close to home and way too soon after the lockdown situation at my kids school (which turned out to be nothing but an unrecognized high school student walking in to use the bathroom). I honestly home they don't tell the kids at our school. They're already crepes or enough with ask the new lockdown drills they're dealing with. Don't parents teach their kids about guns anymore and install morals?
 
No, they don’t.
Did you know preschoolers have lockdown drills? It’s not shared with parents, so if their child has night terrors (because you know their brains aren’t developed enough for nightmares), they won’t know why.
 
MotorcycleChick said:
No, they don’t.
Did you know preschoolers have lockdown drills? It’s not shared with parents, so if their child has night terrors (because you know their brains aren’t developed enough for nightmares), they won’t know why.
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That's crazy! Parents should know what's going on in school! My daughter told me that they'd only had like 1 lockdown drill a year in the past but now they have to have them every month (I think). With the preschoolers, I think they should name it something different and keep details to a minimum when don't drills like that.

Our kids were taught young about guns. We have about 7 in the house, not counting their BB/pellet guns. Both kids can shoot, both kids know how dangerous they are and have seen what they can do (to a target anyway). They have solid respect for them. It's actualy time for a refresher course with them over it all.
 
Had things not turned out the way they did for me, I can tell you that my children would learn gun safety and motorcycle safety young.
Let me tell you why.
At five, a child will listen when you explain how to do something, and why not to do other things. At sixteen, that kid ain’t listening to anything! So they try stupid stuff because they didn’t pay attention to what little you’ve had a chance to say, and don’t have the experience to know better.
 

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