Texas

[TK421]

Hey folks, a few things have crossed my desk lately about State Rep. James White‘s plans to Reintroduce a backyard chicken bill in the legislature this spring. The bill would prohibit a municipality from restricting people from having backyard chickens and would enable everybody to have up to 6. The bill made good progress last session, but didn’t get all the way there, so he’s trying again. These kinds of bills do really well with a coordinated grassroots campaign, so I’m gauging the interest of this community on “getting involved” at some level. an outpouring of public support made this possible in San Antonio. Is anyone interested in getting involved in Jan-May?

 

[RUNuts]

Hey folks, a few things have crossed my desk lately about State Rep. James White‘s plans to Reintroduce a backyard chicken bill in the legislature this spring. The bill would prohibit a municipality from restricting people from having backyard chickens and would enable everybody to have up to 6. The bill made good progress last session, but didn’t get all the way there, so he’s trying again. These kinds of bills do really well with a coordinated grassroots campaign, so I’m gauging the interest of this community on “getting involved” at some level. an outpouring of public support made this possible in San Antonio. Is anyone interested in getting involved in Jan-May?

What is required? Letter writing?

 

[TK421]

It depends what folks would be interested in. Letter writing, posting on threads here, calling neighbors, all with the goal of getting your own rep to commit to voting for it. Once it’s through the Tx House, wed move to the Texas Senate. If people were really gung ho, we could talk to Rep White and offer To meet with reps in Austin. Sometimes reps have ideas on how to use grassroots efforts. Other times they Just encourage people to do what they can. so yes, letter writing and phone calls, but I’m thinking this community could go A little farther than that to make things happen. It could be coordinated and well timed blitzes of calls to state reps. Could also be coordinated posts on social media or calling up local media at certain points in the process to build momentum. This is the sort of thing that local media would eat up. Good visuals, passionate people, a little quirky.

it could also be a lot less if Texans on here didn’t want to organize as much. Thoughts?

 

[electrycmonk]

I'm in but, not sure how much more then what's been suggested in this post above.
A call or two= easily doable
A email = ditto
Part of a coordinated blitz call to rep's = sure

 

[Lowag78]

Hello I live about 3 hours north of Houston in the tiny town of Joaquin. I'm on my second group of ladies as I call them my daughter's dog enjoyed my first when she got off her chain. To be honest I normally don't like chickens but I am enjoying spoiling my girls. They get all kinds of stuff from my garden.

 

[electrycmonk]

This year has been a really hard year for me regarding caring for our animals (fur-kids & feathered ones).

Last fall (our little rescued Maltese) Beau-Beau, at 12+ we had to put to sleep.

January (our little Shih Tzu) Curry, also 12+ needed his heart meds increased. April/May had a good talk with Vet about what we will be doing with the meds as it's been almost 18 months on the meds.... So on the last increase in meds we made ready to talk him to be put to sleep. Both these little dogs were mainly my Better-half's. Then along this time period Sandy (our 11+ Irish wolf hound mix rescue) was getting lethargic and so Vet happened upon the situation & showed me the ultrasound of her kidneys.... They looked like Swiss cheese! Doc figured maybe 3 months from early Jan visit... She lasted, I guess a couple weeks after Curry into June/July.

A couple days ago we lost the Roo who's been taking care of our flock solo due to my error -posted in its own thread.

Now this morning our sexlink who's had the croop(sp) issue passed away last night. We had been working with her in a crate for about 2 months this time and we're having great success. As of last week she had all her feathers back to full. She never stopped having good poop every day. Would always eat the oil soaked bread, and the feather fixer food without gorging. She loved to eat small ice chunks & had been really good about drinking her nutrient drenched water.

I had been talking with the kiddos about supervised reintroduction with the rest of the girls as she had been always visible but, still in the crate.....

I can recall talking with friends in college(in the dorms) about how cool it's gonna be to have the year 2020 in our lifetime and be able to use the saying about "hindsight being 20/20".... Well, that really is turning into a slightly painful, if ironic memory.

 

[RebelChief]

I am thinking I am now going to figure out what the highest rated inverter I can just have permanently have attached to the Wrangler is. So i can run a hot plate/breville oven, full size fridge and recharging stations off off no matter where I am. Plus my internet needs so I will hop on the Jeep forums tomorrow and figure out the tech specs on my JK. Even now the power is acting wonky. It probably will be near the same price as a small generator however not nearly as portable. I am just hoping there is an easy oversized overkill affordable option. I can probably find it now on extremeterrain.com already.

How did you guys do @RebelChief ?

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/211748.shtml?gm_track#contents

We did fine. My pool took the worst of it. Power stayed on until sometime in the night but was on in the morning. It went out again when the tornado touched down a couple miles from my house. I'm happy that I have a gas stove and I make my coffee with a coffee press . I was enjoying my hot coffee despite the lack of power sunday AM.

Another one down . I moved here from Hawaii so I've been on this circus wheel a few times.

 

[RUNuts]

Hey folks, a few things have crossed my desk lately about State Rep. James White‘s plans to Reintroduce a backyard chicken bill in the legislature this spring. The bill would prohibit a municipality from restricting people from having backyard chickens and would enable everybody to have up to 6. The bill made good progress last session, but didn’t get all the way there, so he’s trying again. These kinds of bills do really well with a coordinated grassroots campaign, so I’m gauging the interest of this community on “getting involved” at some level. an outpouring of public support made this possible in San Antonio. Is anyone interested in getting involved in Jan-May?

Sounds like you have a couple of us interested. Will you be coordinating? We can leave discussion here or start a new thread.

Talking with my neighbors, several of them think the law has already been passed and support the chicken noises (no rooster, well, only for a couple of weeks after the crowing starts). We may be able to get a few outside to join in also. The news media was pushing this, so a bunch of people are aware of the effort, if not the results.

@jolenesdad and everyone else - are you aware of any group that is pushing chicken legislation that you would suggest we join/support/follow?

I think 6 chickens is a good start. It doesn't cover meat raising though.
For larger families that need the eggs, 6 chickens is a start, but falls short if everyone eats eggs for breakfast.
Does it address smell, coop location or housing guidelines?
I'd like to read the new bill.

 

[jolenesdad]

Sounds like you have a couple of us interested. Will you be coordinating? We can leave discussion here or start a new thread.

Talking with my neighbors, several of them think the law has already been passed and support the chicken noises (no rooster, well, only for a couple of weeks after the crowing starts). We may be able to get a few outside to join in also. The news media was pushing this, so a bunch of people are aware of the effort, if not the results.

@jolenesdad and everyone else - are you aware of any group that is pushing chicken legislation that you would suggest we join/support/follow?

I think 6 chickens is a good start. It doesn't cover meat raising though.
For larger families that need the eggs, 6 chickens is a start, but falls short if everyone eats eggs for breakfast.
Does it address smell, coop location or housing guidelines?
I'd like to read the new bill.

I’ll check in some of the local/TX groups I’m in on FB and see if there’s anyone making a concerted effort for this. There’s some people in Houston that build coops and are starting a new chicken retail space that have been doing some stuff locally with city of Houston to lobby. I’ll reach out to them, too, and will report back anything I find out.

 

[RUNuts]

I’ll check in some of the local/TX groups I’m in on FB and see if there’s anyone making a concerted effort for this. There’s some people in Houston that build coops and are starting a new chicken retail space that have been doing some stuff locally with city of Houston to lobby. I’ll reach out to them, too, and will report back anything I find out.

Much appreciated! One step towards a chicken in every yard.