Someone Complained, Chickens Must Go -- Joliet, IL

[agrippina]

Just shot off an e-mail to the mayor of Joliet regarding the letter he wrote to a fellow byc keeper. Boy, he's not the smartest ball in the bag, is he?

Eh, that's putting it one way...

I went back and forth with him all day yesterday and he really is having some sort of knee-jerk reaction to this due to some odd childhood memories of getting chicks at Easter. He's completely unreasonable.

 

[chitown chicks]

I just read an article in the backyard poultry mag. That has guide lines for this you should read it.

Can you provide a online link to the article?

 

[chitown chicks]

Eh, that's putting it one way...

I went back and forth with him all day yesterday and he really is having some sort of knee-jerk reaction to this due to some odd childhood memories of getting chicks at Easter. He's completely unreasonable.

He got chicks at Easter and then what? He didn't feed them? They didn't have proper protection for them?

 

[sandmbaker]

He got chicks at Easter and then what? He didn't feed them? They didn't have proper protection for them?

He said they kept them a few days then put them in his grandmas chicken pin then ate them once they were big. so he considers them food not pets.

 

[Roxannemc]

Seems like Mr Mayor is a little antiquated in his thinking.Wonder what else hes behind the times dealing with..Hum... Sounds like Joilette needs a little more progressive mayor.Maybe someone should put that in the local papers editorial column..idea for next election.

 

[ladyrsanti]

Well, I wrote him a letter about basic chicken reproduction that came across as more of a sex-ed class. He wrote me back and said that if I don't live in Joliet (which I don't) then my letter is basically worthless. BUT, he did read it and if he's got a living cell in his brain, he should now understand that without a rooster (a male chicken with sperm), the hen (a female chicken with eggs) cannot uncontrollably reproduce on the streets of Joliet and somehow turn the city into rubble. A woman doesn't get pregnant every time she ovulates after all (yes, I pointed this out). But she still ovulates and so does a chicken by laying eggs (with or without a rooster). I also pointed out that the Jurassic Park scenario is impossible with chickens. Hens will not spontaneously mutate and reproduce via parthenogenesis. So... for what it's worth, I tried to educate the man. Dunno if it worked. Just my two bits.

 

[goldfinches]

Sorry friends. I lived in Joliet for many years. What I learned from my time there: move out of Joliet!

It's a good old boys club, hard to change anyone's mind about anything.

 

[chitown chicks]

He said they kept them a few days then put them in his grandmas chicken pin then ate them once they were big. so he considers them food not pets.

Well, in some cases, they are food! He can't see them as layers in addition? Does he not eat eggs?

 

[chitown chicks]

Well, I wrote him a letter about basic chicken reproduction that came across as more of a sex-ed class. He wrote me back and said that if I don't live in Joliet (which I don't) then my letter is basically worthless. BUT, he did read it and if he's got a living cell in his brain, he should now understand that without a rooster (a male chicken with sperm), the hen (a female chicken with eggs) cannot uncontrollably reproduce on the streets of Joliet and somehow turn the city into rubble. A woman doesn't get pregnant every time she ovulates after all (yes, I pointed this out). But she still ovulates and so does a chicken by laying eggs (with or without a rooster). I also pointed out that the Jurassic Park scenario is impossible with chickens. Hens will not spontaneously mutate and reproduce via parthenogenesis. So... for what it's worth, I tried to educate the man. Dunno if it worked. Just my two bits.

If anyone ever thinks the Jurassic Park scenario could actually happen and that person is also mayor of a town, village, or city...I don't even know what to say. How on EARTH did he get elected?

Interesting, I just read online that Mayor Thomas C. "Tom" Giarrante only received 26% of the votes to become mayor of Joliet. There were 9 candidates. So, he doesn't even necessarily represent the majority of Joliet.
Also, he seems most concerned with, according to his bio, with cleaning up the town and bringing/keeping businesses in Joliet. I can see how the latter might affect how he feels about chickens. Not that he'd be correct but I can still see that coming.

 

[Gargoyle]

Also, he seems most concerned with, according to his bio, with cleaning up the town and bringing/keeping businesses in Joliet. I can see how the latter might affect how he feels about chickens. Not that he'd be correct but I can still see that coming.

The new modern image for a twenty-first century community is to be green and sustainable.Therefore backyard chickens won't make the town look old, poor or backwards; quite the contrary, it will show the town is on the leading edge of the digital age.