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(WRCB-TV) Spiffy Relax Nashville residents - it is now legal to keep chickens in your backyard   (wrcbtv.com) divider line 20
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moops
2012-01-18 02:11:57 PM
Portland already did it!
 
cgraves67
2012-01-18 02:14:25 PM
moops: Portland already did it!

In Portland they are probably free-range heritage breeds. The Nashville chickens will come in two varieties, fried and country fried.
 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 02:16:50 PM
Get some white leghorns if you're wanting lots of eggs. We had a few of them when I was a kid, but mostly we had Domineckers(Dominiques) and Rhode Island Reds.
 
beezeltown
2012-01-18 02:19:19 PM
Meh. Lots of cities allow a few hens in the backyard.
 
A Fark Handle
2012-01-18 02:19:32 PM
moops: Portland already did it!

yeah you can grab a free chicken at the sunnyside school. they don't even lock the coop.

/it was delicious...
 
Dinjiin
2012-01-18 02:20:01 PM
Ugh, I hated living next to an urban farmer who raised chickens. He didn't dispose of the droppings often enough, so they'd stink in the summer. The chickens would cluck and squawk all day. Then there was some old lady who walked her dogs daily, and they'd bark at the chickens whenever they went past the dude's yard. That riled the chickens up for some time.

The best I could do was plant a tall FU hedge along the property line, keep the windows closed and crank the AC in the summer. I can only hope the guy got salmonella from them.
 
rockradio1
2012-01-18 02:23:19 PM
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Current Resident [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 02:34:27 PM
So...is it legal in New York, too?

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adder1
2012-01-18 02:36:13 PM
Truly, I understand the desire to raise chickens. Cheap source of both eggs AND yummy white meat.

However, I am against this because of the fact that if I'm next door to someone who has a coop, and doesn't properly maintain it, it's going to stink up my yard and several beyond. Not to mention the noise (I'd rather wake to my alarm than to a rooster, thanks). Overall, a coop in the neighborhood can drive down property values all around it (per my realtor, ymmv)

Thankfully, the house I'm in the process of buying is in one of the districts that opted out of allowing chickens.
 
Dinjiin
2012-01-18 02:38:33 PM
adder1: I'd rather wake to my alarm than to a rooster, thanks

Most rules prohibit roosters within city limits, the one in the article included. Just the girls are allowed.
 
adder1
2012-01-18 02:44:58 PM
Dinjiin: adder1: I'd rather wake to my alarm than to a rooster, thanks

Most rules prohibit roosters within city limits, the one in the article included. Just the girls are allowed.

Ah, fair enough then. I retract the part about roosters... but the noise of chickens still makes me twitch.
 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 02:47:46 PM
adder1: I'd rather wake to my alarm than to a rooster

Thou art insane. I'd rather have a rooster wake me up than the usual "sounds of the city" that deprive me of sleep(live two blocks from a fire station).
 
adder1
2012-01-18 02:54:44 PM
PacManDreaming: adder1: I'd rather wake to my alarm than to a rooster

Thou art insane. I'd rather have a rooster wake me up than the usual "sounds of the city" that deprive me of sleep(live two blocks from a fire station).

Insane, perhaps! However, I am a life-long 'city-boy', and as such, my familiar environment is random loud noises (large boat horns from living on a river, trains going by from living near tracks, etc). But the call of a rooster makes my skin just crawl. However, as I noted above, I withdrew the rooster complaint about the matter at hand as they are still not allowed.

/cluckcluckcluck...
//where's the train horn, damnit!?
 
hailin [TotalFark]
2012-01-18 03:14:22 PM
Our city council recently ruled no chickens of any kind within the city limits and closed any further discussion about it. I was so pissed off (the ordinance they wanted to pass was for keeping 6 hens in an inspected coop and neighbors can fine you for noise/smell complaints). Our neighbors have five hens in a coop. They don't stink and I only ever hear them if I'm outside working in the garden...and it is soft clucking. If chickens can't be allowed then I don't think dogs should be allowed either. The dogs on our block are FAR louder and annoying then my neighbor's chickens.
 
Vermicious Knids
2012-01-18 03:19:31 PM
adder1: Truly, I understand the desire to raise chickens. Cheap source of both eggs AND yummy white meat.

However, I am against this because of the fact that if I'm next door to someone who has a coop, and doesn't properly maintain it, it's going to stink up my yard and several beyond. Not to mention the noise (I'd rather wake to my alarm than to a rooster, thanks). Overall, a coop in the neighborhood can drive down property values all around it (per my realtor, ymmv)

Thankfully, the house I'm in the process of buying is in one of the districts that opted out of allowing chickens.

No roosters allowed in the city, usually. But I understand Where you're coming from. I have five hens in my backyard, but I work hard to make sure their bedding doesn't smell, and they're not loud in the least.

My neighbors, in turn, not only don't mind me having the chickens, but they buy eggs from me. Everyone wins.

PS, if you want a champion layer with a docile personality, get a Golden Comet.
 
SidePocketKid
2012-01-18 03:45:41 PM
I live just north of Cincinnati, and I've had a duck living in my back yard for the better part of eight months. I expected it to cause problems with the neighbors, but they all seem to love him, especially their dogs and children.
A few months ago, the people behind us got a rooster. Keeping up with the Jones's I guess.
 
improvius
2012-01-18 04:06:34 PM
So I can go ahead and keep that chicken?
 
rogue_L_chick
2012-01-18 04:55:44 PM
I agree with the comments about being able to fine folks for stinky coops. I have 6 chickens (half-acre backyard), I completely rake out the entire coop ( with a 24' run, but they free range mostly, so it's not bad at all) at least once a week, more in the summer. They cluck a bit after they lay, but my neighbors think it's cool - especially because they both get a free dozen or so every other week.
 
coldones
2012-01-18 05:37:14 PM
but is it still illegal to put weasels in your pants for the purpose of gambling?
 
UnrepentantApostate
2012-01-18 09:33:09 PM
I hope to someday get to own chickens again. I grew up in the country, and we always had a dozen or two around for pest control in the yard, and the eggs.

If you want lots of eggs, get Leghorns.

If you don't need so many eggs, but do want some pleasant, fairly even-tempered and hardy birds, get Cochins.

And if you want to be entertained constantly by tweaking chickens, get bantams of any type. Bonus, bantams often lay green or blue eggs.
 
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