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All4Eggz
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Are you Rehoming your chickens ??Can’t do anything about it.
For now yes.Are you Rehoming your chickens ??
Before you do anything I would contact a lawyer. I found this on another thread. I took a screen shot just so I could keep it for my own records.So the guy arrived today. It was two of them.
He seems really genuine. Introduced himself as the city’s code enforcement officer, we’ve met him before from last years incident.
Talked and talked.
So I asked, was it the rats the brought the initial concern this time around? And he replied yes. And I mentioned how can it be proved it is coming from the chickens.
He responded it’s not a matter of that anymore. He said the reason he allowed us 10-15 hens last year was because it was under his discretion. He wanted to help us, and he still does. He had chickens and had to deal with this. He said it’s higher now, he doesn’t have control over it now and it escalated to the point where it is no longer under his discretion. City council members demanded mail be sent and he come to our house to inform us of this news. Within 7 days the chickens need to be off the property.
We complied last time and got rid of all the roosters and brought the number down. So he said we did everything right.
Now it’s the rats and the “smell” from the chickens.
I asked if at this point if there is absolutely anything we can do. He said he’s done everything in his power, and that anything we would be able to do would be quote “a waste of time”. He is really sympathetic. Because we are in a certain residential zone, we are not allowed chickens because we have under 5 acres of land. You need 5 to have chickens. He said because we have an acre, he allowed us the few last year. I asked again why we were allowed last year and no longer are. He repeated because it was
up to his discretion, it is no longer in his power to allow anything, it is because the problem escalated concerning the rats and such.
They are citing specific parts of the zoning ordinance, or the city code, or the law of the state, or something of the sort. It means that people can go check for themselves what it really says, kind of like footnotes in a book or people giving chapter & verse from the Bible.Ok, so who understands all those numbers and symbols in the above letter from Officialdom ?
That sounds like a good strategy. That way the city won't be fining you every day for having the chickens, while you are working on what it takes to be allowed to have them again.I will be rehoming my chickens hopefully to relatives so that in the slight chance that we may be able to take them back again, we can do so without issues.
That sounds like a big job, but very worthwhile if you can manage it.We can’t fight this any other way but to change the zoning laws.
Is your property big enough for electric poultry netting?Poison isn’t an option because we free range the chickens, but we have been using traps ever since we discovered the rats. We do catch a few every now and then but it just seems like there is so many of them.
We live sort of near a river, rats live near rivers so maybe that will help in defending the possibility that these rats aren’t here because of the chickens..