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South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 25, 2008 | Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Posted on 05/28/2008 11:36:11 AM PDT by sheana

When her neighbor's roosters and chickens persisted in running through her yard, G. Stone took matters into her own hands.

She marched next door and issued a warning: Do something about the uninvited guests or the birds "were going in my pot."

The incursions stopped. But Stone, a retired Los Angeles County librarian who lives northwest of Watts, shook her head in exasperation as she recalled the incident.

"I've lived here for 50 years," she said. "All of a sudden, there's an influx of chickens. You're not supposed to have chickens in the city."

For many, the image of South Los Angeles is that of a paved, parched, densely packed urban grid. But increasingly, it is also a place where untold numbers of barnyard animals -- chickens, roosters, goats, geese, ducks, pigs and even the odd pony -- are being tended in tiny backyard spaces

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; diversity; immigrantlist; immigrants; immigration; laws; losangeles; poultry; workingdogs; zoning
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To: shorty_harris

We still have neighborhoods here within the city limits that are zoned for animals. They are 3/4 of an acre or acre lots though.
Heck if all my neighbors start getting chickens I will just get me a bunch too.
In California we can’t beat em so we might as well join them....that seems to be the philosophy anyway.


41 posted on 05/28/2008 1:25:04 PM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana

Being a liberal democrat is all fun and games until another democrat voting block gets on your nerves.


42 posted on 05/28/2008 1:28:56 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (McCain calls it "radical islamic terrorism," the dems don't refer to it at all)
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To: sheana
Hen-pecked by constituent calls about rooster noise, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn recently proposed limiting each household to one rooster and setting up new procedures to deal with loud birds.

I'd love to know if this lady is dealing with this issue because her last name means rooster in German :)

43 posted on 05/28/2008 1:29:47 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Ted Kennedy is the finest collection of hops and barley money can buy)
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To: sheana

Avian Flu


44 posted on 05/28/2008 1:34:40 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: sheana

>>Heck if all my neighbors start getting chickens I will just get me a bunch too.
<<

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/

I recommend Buff Orpingtons.


45 posted on 05/28/2008 1:39:58 PM PDT by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: sheana; All

Everyone who grew up in L.A., raise your hand. Very few of you, I’m sure.

People have always kept chickens in the yard in L.A.

The L.A. Times author is no doubt a newcomer also. And maybe the complaining neighbors would prefer to hear rap “music” and gunfire.....


46 posted on 05/28/2008 1:41:05 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: Osage Orange

LOL.


47 posted on 05/28/2008 1:43:45 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: steveo

Your comments will surely fall on deaf ears.

Oh wait, they already have...:)


48 posted on 05/28/2008 1:45:12 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


49 posted on 05/28/2008 1:46:35 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: La Enchiladita

I just found this website that lists different cities rules for keeping chickens.

http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/chickenlaws.html

I am in Bakersfield and yes I did spend about 6 years of my childhood growing up in L.A. I lived in Glendale, Hollywood, and Tujunga. It is definitely not the same L.A.


50 posted on 05/28/2008 2:09:57 PM PDT by sheana
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To: sheana
Could this be in your neighborhoods near future?! Complete with chickens and goats?!
Courtesy of http://www.lonestarconservative.net/mytake/
51 posted on 05/28/2008 2:11:02 PM PDT by Ron H. (A lesser evil candidate is still an evil candidate even if it's a Republicrat!)
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To: sheana

I hear about front yards planted in corn -— It reminds these peasants of good ol’ Mexico


52 posted on 05/28/2008 2:13:21 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: La Enchiladita
Everyone who grew up in L.A., raise your hand. Very few of you, I’m sure. People have always kept chickens in the yard in L.A.

41 years and counting for me - and I don't remember ever seeing or hearing chickens except maybe once or twice.
53 posted on 05/28/2008 2:14:28 PM PDT by ruination
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To: La Enchiladita
Back when I was raising chickens (various purebreds), I'd take to auction HUGE Rhode Island Red roosters. I'd get 15 to 20 dollars for a nice looking bird.

I also had a little goat. His name was goaty-goat and he would come running whenever he heard my voice or my car. He loved playfully pushing his head against my leg or my hand... sadly he decided my wife's roses were lunch one day so he ended up at the auction. I got $150 for him and he got turned into bar-b-que I'm sure.

54 posted on 05/28/2008 2:18:20 PM PDT by steveo (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.)
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To: sheana
South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards

Exactamente como el querido mexico.

55 posted on 05/28/2008 2:21:22 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Better to have your enemy before you than beside you or behind you.)
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To: SeafoodGumbo

Plenty of anti illegal alien posts at that Geraldo Rivera post at the Huffington Post


56 posted on 05/28/2008 2:26:02 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: steel_resolve
She is a librarian. By default she is almost certainly a lib and favors unchecked immigration.

How can you be so sure? How do you know that she doesn't keep her library's collection well-supplied with the works of Ann Coulter, Dinesh D'Souza, John Bolton, Mona Charen, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Whittaker Chambers?

57 posted on 05/28/2008 2:45:05 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: sheana

“”I’ve lived here for 50 years,” she said. “All of a sudden, there’s an influx of chickens. You’re not supposed to have chickens in the city.””

Laws are for citizens, sweetie, get used to it. Illegal aliens don’t have to follow our laws, so why should they bother. In the neighborhood I moved from, they not only had chickens, but fighting roosters and goats. Price of my property fell $100,000.00 in 3 weeks. It took them only 3 weeks to totally destroy the ‘hood’ that I’d lived in peacefully, quietly, MANICURED for 30 years.


58 posted on 05/28/2008 4:40:41 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: Oldexpat

“BTW..those aren’t chickens..they are fighting cocks.”

The ol’ gal is going to have a surprise when she grabs one of them and tries to stuff it in a pot.


59 posted on 05/28/2008 4:42:27 PM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
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To: Oldexpat
BTW..those aren’t chickens..they are fighting cocks.

Lesbians?

60 posted on 05/28/2008 4:43:47 PM PDT by humblegunner (Che is Gay)
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