Southern NY, Dutchess county and below

[luvmy33chicks]

you must post pics when they hatch (please)
my parents are going to visit my sister in kentucky next week and my moms planning on bringing me home silkies
she calls them fuzzies

 

[magsrags]

My understanding if correct on NY state law:
Eggs sold privately on your own property....yard sales.....flee markets etc. is just fine. Eggs like ours cannot be sold in "stores......supermarkets....health food shops" etc.
You have to be inspected/regulated/licensed/labeled.
You can certainly GIVE your eggs to anyone you darn well please.

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I'll never tell! TOH says no more than 8 hens, no roosters. And someone told me you can't sell or give away eggs. Okay, like my friends will turn me in for giving them illegal contraband eggs!!

 

[smkchick]

I double check the Town's ordinance and it says


Any chickens or ducks maintained, housed or possessed and all eggs produced from said chickens or ducks shall be for the sole use and consumption of the homeowner or tenant in possession and shall not be offered for resale.

I consider giving eggs to my friends one of my uses for them.

 

[magsrags]

Perhaps it is in the 5 boroughs of NYC I am thinking of for the eggs. Cause I can legally sell them and give away here privately.
Our laws are different unfortunately. I can also legally have unlimited numbers of hens and just no roos.


I am watching the Martha Stewart Chicken Show on her site just now from back in march of 2010.....we were invited to and attended with 1 of my hens. So much fun that day was bringing a chicken into NYC with my DH.....and getting on TV to boot. The gifts we received were fabulous!

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[smkchick]

So jealous!

Yeah in NYC you can have unlimited numbers, just no roos. My Town only recently changed the code to allow chickens. I remember originally people could have roosters, then nothing, now only hens. I would so have a Welsummer Rooster if I could. Beautiful birds.

 

[magsrags]

Welsumers make such gorgeous dark speckled eggs. I hatched out some last spring. Think along the line of Barnvelders if you like the wellies. Gorgeous med-dark eggs and sometimes mine are speckled.

I've kept roos for short periods of time, but in deference to my new neighbors in my new/old home I won't push the limit.

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[Noble Rooster]

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Hi everybody from Westchester!

So great to see so many folks here, including you hardcore chicken keepers in NYC.

Definitely check town ordinances on the (formal) selling of eggs. A few years ago this lady in New Rochelle who tried to sell her quail eggs in her yard got busted big time. They treated her as if she were selling drugs on her front lawn -- definitely brought the hammer down way too hard where a warning, apologies to neighbors (if any were necessary) and possibly a fine would have done.

Of course, private, off-record sales between friends is no one's business but yours, your friend's, and your chickens'...

 

[magsrags]

Particularly if your selling quail eggs not indigenous (sp?)to the local area. totally illegal anywhere. Looked into raising selling locally here and no good unless speciofic breeds .....breed/live here.


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Hi everybody from Westchester!

So great to see so many folks here, including you hardcore chicken keepers in NYC.

Definitely check town ordinances on the (formal) selling of eggs. A few years ago this lady in New Rochelle who tried to sell her quail eggs in her yard got busted big time. They treated her as if she were selling drugs on her front lawn -- definitely brought the hammer down way too hard where a warning, apologies to neighbors (if any were necessary) and possibly a fine would have done.

Of course, private, off-record sales between friends is no one's business but yours, your friend's, and your chickens'...

 

[Noble Rooster]

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Huh, interesting, thank you!

It's so funny how these regs get written and what is considered domesticated, indigenous, etc. I mean, last time I checked chickens weren't even originally a North American animal, and various quail species are. And it's not like many laying quail were snatched from the wild, but have been raised for a while as an egg-providing bird. Ah well.

 

[smkchick]

I don't even care about selling eggs - I just want to give them to all my friends and family!

I got interested in chickens because we loved the farm fresh eggs we'd always have when we traveled. The I read Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver and was sold on the idea.

Now that I have my four girls, I can't imagine not having chickens.