Lee County Florida, Changing Attitudes and Ordinances

[FeatherMomma]

What is the 4-h loop hole because I have even looked at that route in Lee county and was told no. I live just outside the city limits of fort Myers where you can have 4 chickens but not in Lee county. Also, would the chicken laws apply to quails?

Currently only cape coral had an exemption for 4-h/ffa.
Quail are tricky, the ordinance states "or others kept for meat or eggs" (overview). However, quail are a gamebird.
You can apparently have pigeons. And you can have 4 Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs. Which is crazy.

 

[Vorenus41]

I'm in unincorporated Lee county and we've been keeping a small flock behind privacy fencing for about 5 months. The way the lee county commissioners have handled everything at every step of the process has been gross. We finally decided to just go ahead with it. As far as I'm concerned, the county does not have the right to allow some citizens to have a right that others with the same residential status do not. Honestly, I don't believe they have the right to tell people what they can and cannot do on their property at all if it isn't affecting others, but especially not with a double standard. It's crazy to me that you can have chickens inside the city limits where the population is much denser and the properties much smaller, but not out at the edges of the county where it is more rural, but not zoned AG. We might have a better shot at getting a "right to self sufficiency" amendment to the state constitution than getting the county commission allow an ordinance for the whole county.

 

[1GardenGal]

Are roosters permitted in Fort Myers?

 

[Vorenus41]

Are roosters permitted in Fort Myers?

No