Urban Chicken Laws -- at the agenda meeting.

[urbaknight]

I saw this on the news the other night, Redman said that it was a progressive idea. I think it's the opposite of progressive; people have been raising their own livestock for food and colthing for thousands of years. I'm all for it, it should be legal everywhere. 

I just think it's funny what council thinks is progressive. I guess if it involves farming or anything down-home country, it's ok.

[Overstreet]

You can change the code but the HOAs will remain in force.

Small is the watch word here. A few chickens,  a few rabbits are OK it is just when people get carried away and have a LOT of any of those that they become a problem.

Of course a few hogs and some yard birds will give me thoughts of back home on the farm.  You really can't get the full effect until you've plucked a few hens or cut a few shoats for the "oysters". 

[FSBA]

Regardless of the current laws on the books, scores of people in the city are already keeping chickens and more are looking to do so. As others have said, what harm is there in keeping a few birds either as pets or as a food source?

The one thing I don't get is why so many get cold feet about roosters. I know several of my neighbors have them because I hear them when I'm getting ready for work in the morning. If given the choice between being next to a house that has a rooster and one that has a dog that barks at anything moving I'll take the rooster.

[mbwright]

Many roosters do not crow only at daybreak.  That only happens in the cartoons. 

[FSBA]

I know that. I was just saying between a dog that barks constantly and a rooster I'll take the rooster.

[Dog Walker]

Sorry, an aroused rooster at 2AM is just as annoying as a dog barking at the same time.

Sarasota got their laws changed to allow urban "Hens in the 'Hood" with the motto, "If if crows, it goes!"  That overcomes a lot of concerns even if they are exaggerated.