“We don’t want no eggs from CHICKENS! We get ours at the store!”
Here, in our county, there is a current controversy over chickens in residential unincorporated areas.
The county passed a statute several years ago, when Vietnamese Pot Bellied pigs became ‘popular’ as pets, that banned keeping ‘animals that are normally found on farms’ in residential areas of the county (not the incorporated parts, since they set their own rules).
A woman recently challenged that statute, because she has chickens on her property, in a pen and coop. The neighbors don’t mind, but the county says the chickens, about a dozen, have to go.
It is to be debated at the next County Commission meeting. She has the support of her commissioner and her neighbors, and me as well, but I live in another part of the county.
What gets me is we have all these Mexicans and Central American immigrants here and they tend to have chickens in their yards, and nobody says a thing about it. A ‘group’ down the street from me, (I say ‘group’ because they rent a house and several people stay there, mostly grown men, not a ‘family’) has chickens, and I hear them crow in the evenings when I get home and work in the yard. It doesn’t bother me.
There are others in nearby neighborhoods that do the same.
But if I were to get some chickens, which I would like to do, I’m sure the wrath of the county inspectors would soon come down on my head.
I’m going to wait and see what happens with the rule after the Commission meeting(s)...........................
“We don’t want no eggs from CHICKENS! We get ours at the store!”
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Now, that really did make me LOL!