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<DIV>"Chicken talk" About 90 years ago there were chickens in
Riverdale. They lived in my back yard. I learned this from the
former owner who lived here at the time and my lot was just a vacant lot.
Way in the back you can still see the remains of where the chicken fence
was. Now, that is the exact place I plant my garden and it always
produces! I love my eggs from free roaming, cage free chickens but if we
all decided to have a hen house, I think it would turn into a problem. So
I will get my eggs from Farmer Jerry who usually has pictures of his hens and a
good story to tell. </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Good luck to the lone rooster Hope he makes it. </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/22/2009 11:54:54 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
dwightrholmes@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>as far
as the last point, i think that towns that do allow for<BR>backyard chickens
typically restrict that to hens only, and don't<BR>allow roosters.<BR><BR>On
Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:11 AM, <JayRite@aol.com>
wrote:<BR>>><BR>> This would require much more than just lifting a
law. It would require a<BR>> special licence, a hefty registration fee, to
cover the towns expenses of<BR>> chicken control, (wrangling, inspections,
etc.), registration of each<BR>> individual chicken (to hold chicken
ranchers responsible) And very patient<BR>> neighbors. COCK-A-DOODLE
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