O/T chickens in city

Ok to start off im not sure were i would post this question so ill post it here i appoligize if this was the wrong area ok here it goes im 17 years old been a 4H member for very long time that my little bit of back ground so i have been thinking about making a project on reasons why to have chickens in a city i live in town my dad used to be a farm hand i think it just would be very usedful to have our own chickens i was thinking of making a project showing it at the fair and seeing how it goes there and if it does well or i hear good stuff about it i may improve it and go in front of my city council who already voted it as no to residents only to have it at a historical building witch is right in town so i was wondering what peoples opinions are on this subject because im from MN and i dont get why Minneapolis can have chickens and we cant that part of reason of the project so and i would like to know pros and cons of the subject thank you (sorry if this was posted in the wrong place was not sure were to post it) sorry if it was not clear enough ill try to make it more clear if needed
- nick

I would not think a couple is a bad thing, what is the difference of chickens and someone having rabbits for 4H also. I would also say they are laying eggs for food. Maybe a rooster would bring unwanted attention.

Animals are great for teaching children to have responsibilities.

I'm curious,do they not teach students how to use capitalization and punctuation marks in Mn? I know in local schools the teachers don't teach students how to write incursive(spellchecker was no help) only to print.

O can not say for sure about where you are but a lot of cities now days will allow X number of chicken a family can have if in town but they have to be fences etc etc. So you would need to find out if they allow them or not and if yes how many a person can have etc. etc.

I have always struggled with English i just never
really had a teacher to help me with this well the
reason they dint pass the chickens in my town
because they "smell" well dogs smell people smell
what wrong with chickens

well our town council had a meeting and it dint pass
i would like to try to make it so i can have some
chickens and i never have been good at English i go
to alternative school not cause i a bad kid i just
struggle alot in school

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Animals are great for teaching children to have responsibilities.

I'm curious,do they not teach students how to use capitalization and punctuation marks in Mn? I know in local schools the teachers don't teach students how to write incursive(spellchecker was no help) only to print.

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There ya go Tex, that'll help the kid a lot. Do they not teach manners in Texas?

You wrote "... the teachers don't teach students how to write incursive(spellchecker was no help)...."

Don't worry, you spelled it right. Now learn what it means



In cur´sive
a. 1. Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile.

Nick;
I work for a city,in Ohio.And chickens are ok in city limits.Will try to find the regs. in city charter.You can E-mail to remind me
Hippie

hippie that would be great thank you

Evidently knot?

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There ya go Tex, that'll help the kid a lot. Do they not teach manners in Texas?

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Ron
Accept my apology for offending you. Would you please explain just exactly how asking chevyboy149 a question is being RUDE?? I did not BASH him. Putting in the correct punctuation and capitalization makes a paragraph easier to read and understand.
Jim

(quoted from post at 19:37:25 05/03/12) You wrote "... the teachers don't teach students how to write incursive(spellchecker was no help)...."

Don't worry, you spelled it right. Now learn what it means



In cur´sive
a. 1. Making an incursion; invasive; aggressive; hostile.

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Sid
I actually misspelled the word I intended on using. This one of the words Websters Dictionary showed for the word "writing" which was cursive that I intended to use but I left out a space between "in" & "cursive". Excuse my missed "space between the 2 words". BTW I think a lot of our tax $$$$$$$ are going to waste on fancy school facilities and things the school boards waste such as athletics and employee's in the main offices. But I think teachers deserve good pay.

To Ron & Sid
Evidently both of you overlooked this sentence I stated.

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Jim

Jim, sorry if I read it wrong, it just looked to me like the kid was getting slapped for his grammar and punctuation. If that's not the case I apologize and will go back to minding my own business like I should have been.

Chevy
If you want send and e-mail of your City,State.>And I'll look at your cities Charter.If its on line.I looked at ours, and can find nothing about chickens.No ducks,goats.cows ect.
Hippie

You must be from Hastings

Ron/PA
No problem and no apology required. I wasn't intending to step on his toes just thought children went to school to learn such things as grammar but with my Granddaughters not being taught to write(cursive) in local schools I was just asking.

Chevy, I'll be absolutely no help in MN law nor the code from your municipality. What I can do is offer you some insight from our very small borough (think township) in PA.

I'm the zoning and code officer for a borough consisting of less than 400 residents with a village that literally is just an enlarged intersection. No stores or businesses except for a hair dresser.

We do not allow farm animals in the Village Center, neither for profit or hobby and consumption of the eggs. It was included in a ready made zoning package that we bought in 1972 when the state mandated that we have zoning laws in place. It's never been challenged so it's never been changed, but I suspect it would meet a lot of resistance from Borough Council if it were challenged.

Probably the main reason that it might not pass is the fact that chickens are very wasteful birds and leave a lot of feed on the ground. This attracts mice and rats. Mice are a favorite food of snakes, and we have both copperheads and rattle snakes in our area. Chicken manure is a prime breeding ground for flies. While this could be resolved with a good sanitation and manure removal program it's not always practiced. How about your fenced in area? Does your town have any fence laws? I'd almost bet they do, and you might have to be prepared to adjust your chicken area to suit any set back requirements in place.

I'm not telling you it shouldn't be done, I'm just telling you some reasons why it's prohibited here. If you're going to make this as detailed a study as you posted you might want to use some of these arguments and show how you'd overcome them.

Having spent a lot of years managing commercial layer farms we ran into this same kind of argument even in agricultural zones, all over the east coast. We always had our answers prepared as best we could for every probable question or accusation that might come up. Sadly you can't think of them all in advance.

Feel free to let me know if there's anything I can do to help you with your quest.

Ron

Nick
Read your City Charter.sec 155.7.I.2. Page 37.
only School or Museum, may keep chickens.I was
changed in 2009.
Hippie

Thanks for the info i just doing research i just
wondering how do cities that have done it have did
with it what were some problems and how can they be
overcome. im just going to see what people think of
it maybe get interviews just get an idea what
reasons they did not want them i mean Minneapolis
allows chickens i dint get why we cant its just a 4H
project idea that i having