Please help!

If your town prohibits you for owning or having chickens, then there isn't much you can do without getting into trouble. Your parents are responsible for you and they can get into trouble with the authorities if they do get complaints about your chickens, directly or indirectly.

Go to the courthouse and find out the variances and ordiances of having poultry or chickens as pets. There are fine lines in keeping as commercial vs home raising chickens. Have an older adult that can read "legalese" languages if you do not understand the documents what they are saying about chickens. Do read up on neighbors spaces and if your home is HOA.

Good luck!

 

Sometimes chickens can be considered "poultry" and sometimes they can be considered "pets". It's all in the legalese language of the ordinances. If you want to raise "poultry", you need 2 acres according to what you wrote. For them to be considered "poultry", the legal definitions MAY include something about farming for profit, actively being engaged in a poultry business, etc. This might NOT be included in your legal definition there.

For them to be considered PETS, there could be a separate legal definition/exception. For example, you MIGHT be able to have a chicken as a pet if you don't have more than 4 per homestead and you don't have any roosters. Sometimes you can find that wording (or something like it) in your ordinances.

If you want to tell the board what town you live in (don't give us your street address, of course!) someone else might already know more, you might have a neighbor 10 blocks away who has already been through this. You'd be surprised how diverse we are! Also, if you find regulations and you want more interpretation, there are lots of people on here who have been in your shoes and gone through all this and know how the wording works.

 

I guess I don't get why you NEED a rooster? Work with your parents. If the town and your parents say no, then move on and find something else to do. Don't waist time on futile tasks.