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No one is denying that some of the laws are in place for good reason. Many are not. Many are simply in place as an added source of govt. income. It's like rabies tags for dogs. Rabies shots don't/can't prevent rabies. Our govt. forces us to get a shot for our dogs that they know doesn't work. To add insult to injury, they not only require the shot, BUT a tag has to be purchased too ($40.00 here) which costs more than the mandatory worthless shot. It's simply a way for them to generate more revenue.

That's true in many cases. The permit fee for keeping chickens is a revenue generator. The business license fee is a revenue generator.
I was told that I couldn't sell my chicken eggs without a business license, the fee would negate any financial advantage of selling eggs.
The taxes on my cell phone and cable bill are revenue generators. The added fees on my gas and electric bill are revenue generators.

I have to mention another point about the rabies tags for dogs. This is the way it works in MO so I don't know if is the same everywhere. The rabies tag is the same as a dog license and they actually go into a fund to pay for damage done by dogs.
If a dog kills my chickens and I have a witness, I have 3 days to petition the County Health department and they're required to dip into that fund to pay for my chickens if the dog owner won't pay or I can't find the owner.

I bet the fund doesn't get dipped into often since very few people have probably read the law so they don't know.
 
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But really, the point I was trying to make, was that some of the laws actually are in place for good reasons. If everyone with chickens is required to register themselves as chicken keepers, it means that in case of a widespread epidemic, like avian flu, you can easily reach the ones who keep birds. And I think it's good that the way fecal matter from animals is stored is regulated too. So that people don't just dump everything their 30 000 broiler farm produces in the river that the next town over uses as a water supply.

Yes they are. But there is that difficulty that Each State has its own laws. Each state has many Many Many counties. Each county will have variances in those laws. Then you get into the City, town, and municipalities... Each can add on an additional Set of requirements. I belive just the state of California is the size of Finland with more people. Finland 5.4 million California 38.8 million.

For instance that thing that may not be mentioned is Legal in many states. Here in San Diego county, one of the biggest in California, It has been illegal for decades. Yet just across the border its Big Big Big business. So there were breeders all over the place in here in San Diego county. They just passed a law through out the state designating how many Roosters you can have and in what situation you can have them.

Here in this little town chickens were ignored unless someone complained and when the new law was passed we all got nervous. so far so good.

Though I heard It threatened to put one man who had been breeding chickens for 70 years out of business. Not for sport but for SOP and an income. I hope they have grandfathered him in. In towns that allow chickens you are allowed x amount and no roosters unless you have xx amount of land... Then it changes incrementally. But so far I haven't seen a requirement for a permit... knock on wood.

Thankfully I can have as many Guinea Fowl as I want. My nearest neighbor has chickens and Goats. On my eighteen acres I believe I can have up to 20. Actually its anything five acres and above can have twenty roosters. I cant see myself going over that.

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How big of an issue is rabies in wild animals in the States? Finland is basically a rabies free country, even with wild rabies carrying animals coming in from our eastern neighbor Russia. They've developed an ingenious system to deal with that though. They airdrop bait treated with an oral vaccine in the vicinity of the border, thus keeping the country free from rabies. Idiots bringing in rescue dogs from India or Spain are still a problem, but a minor one. And another problem with animals coming in from the former Soviet areas is that while their papers may claim them to be vaccinated, this is not always the case. Any dog brought in from abroad needs to have a passport which contains it's complete vaccination history.

The rooster bans here vary from city to city. Where we live, we asked when we registered as a place that keeps chickens, and got the answer "We do not recommend getting a rooster." When we asked again for specifics, or mainly if it actually is forbidden to keep roosters, they again said that they do not recommend getting them. But it isn't forbidden per se. If the neighbors would complain about the noise we would probably have to get rid of Eemeli though. And we have actually gotten a complaint about the crowing once. When our first roo became aggressive and we sent him to freezer camp, a neighbor a couple of houses over complained that he didn't hear the crowing anymore. He had gotten used to it and was disappointed when it stopped.

Yeah, I can see your legal system being a bit difficult to keep track off. Our's is a bit different, all the laws are compiled, and whenever a law that regulates something is being changed, the whole law is updated, and all of this can be found online, both the original text, and the updated statutes. But we do have a lot of unnecessary laws here too, in my opinion. We sometimes refer to Finland as Byroslavia (byrokratia=bureaucracy) as a joke.
 
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How big of an issue is rabies in wild animals in the States? Finland is basically a rabies free country, even with wild rabies carrying animals coming in from our eastern neighbor Russia. They've developed an ingenious system to deal with that though. They airdrop bait treated with an oral vaccine in the vicinity of the border, thus keeping the country free from rabies. Idiots bringing in rescue dogs from India or Spain are still a problem, but a minor one. And another problem with animals coming in from the former Soviet areas is that while their papers may claim them to be vaccinated, this is not always the case. Any dog brought in from abroad needs to have a passport which contains it's complete vaccination history.

The rooster bans here vary from city to city. Where we live, we asked when we registered as a place that keeps chickens, and got the answer "We do not recommend getting a rooster." When we asked again for specifics, or mainly if it actually is forbidden to keep roosters, they again said that they do not recommend getting them. But it isn't forbidden per se. If the neighbors would complain about the noise we would probably have to get rid of Eemeli though. And we have actually gotten a complaint about the crowing once. When our first roo became aggressive and we sent him to freezer camp, a neighbor a couple of houses over complained that he didn't hear the crowing anymore. He had gotten used to it and was disappointed when it stopped.

Yeah, I can see your legal system being a bit difficult to keep track off. Our's is a bit different, all the laws are compiled, and whenever a law that regulates something is being changed, the whole law is updated, and all of this can be found online, both the original text, and the updated statutes. But we do have a lot of unnecessary laws here too, in my opinion. We sometimes refer to Finland as Byroslavia (byrokratia=bureaucracy) as a joke.
Rabies is a big problem in the US.

My wife had to get shots when she was bitten by a dog while visiting Mexico.
 
Never heard of a rabies vaccination for humans... There is a set of shots one has to take if bitten by a possibly or known rabies infected animal...
My DW had to have three shots. The first was in Mexico and the last two back at home.

They were in the arm too so the new shots are better.
 

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