Toronto Chickens?!

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I hope your plans to establish a flock in Canada works out...best of luck!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

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@Wickedchicken6 might have a line on a local thread for you!

Hi there!,I joined a couple years back and i'm not sure if I introduced myself back then. We are originally from the Uk and dreamed of owning chickens in an urban setting but we never managed to pull it off. We then had the opportunity to move to Holland and after a few years were persuaded by a neighbour who had recently begun keeping bantam chickens. She stood on the street of a quiet neighbourhood road and pointed out the houses of the families which owned a rooster, those who kept this breed, and that breed of chicken and how many there were in each garden... When she mentioned the man up the road who had decided to keep a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig in his back yard which like all of ours, was sizeable enough, I was sold! We converted a children's outdoor play hut to into a coop and began with three buff Orpingtons which later expanded to five. Five free-range eggs daily.
Now we are in Toronto, Canada and longing for the opportunity once more. Holland is great in that there are virtually no predators, unlike the UK which has an urban fox problem. In Toronto there are raccoons and possums to reckon with...
Has anyone tips on how where to begin? We've heard Toronto has really strict laws to do with urban livestock...

Welcome to BYC! It's fantastic to meet you!
I was here a year before I "officially" introduced myself...lol.

I'm from Manitoba, Canada...the province west of you. I'm not as familiar with Ontario as I am with Manitoba and Saskatchewan...so I did a bit of digging for some information on Toronto's bylaws. I found out there's a lot!

I managed to find the following information...
http://www.toronto.ca/311/knowledge...hickens-livestock-in-the-city-of-toronto.html

So it appears that at the moment, chickens are prohibited.
https://globalnews.ca/news/2054762/what-you-need-to-know-about-backyard-chickens/

But the city is considering lifting the ban. The link below contains more information. I can't seem to find out whether the project has been passed or not.
http://toronto.citynews.ca/2017/07/10/toronto-considers-lifting-ban-backyard-chickens-2/

I'm sorry that this is not the news I'd like to be able to link you to...but I hope that the project is able to go ahead and the laws be changed to allow urban chickens. If any of those links don't work for you...please let me know by posting on here.

 

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[Wickedchicken6]