| Is keeping chickens
in your backyard legal? The City Chicken has a new page in progress:
ChickenLaws.html.
Check it out! Every city is different. Try looking up your
city codes on-line. Most cities have their codes on-line these days.
If you can't find a clear answer, try emailing various people at your cities'
agency websites. The rules on keeping chickens might be handled by
your cities' Animal Control, or maybe it is covered by your County. Don't
take the first person's reply as gospel. Every city has different
rules, and it might take some research to find out what those rules and
laws are. For example, in Portland, Oregon, the rules can be found
here: http://www.mchealth.org/vector/nuisance.htm#specanimals
. In Portland you can keep up to three hens without a permit.
Roosters are prohibited, and if you want to keep more than three hens,
you need a permit. For other major cities, check out Barbara Kilarski's
new book, "Keep
Chickens!" It has a nice appendix listing the rules about chickens
in various major cities.
And a shout-out to
Geren's Farm Supply's "Critter Corner." They buy unwanted chickens.
They also sell them. They will give you $3 for an unwanted rooster,
and I believe $4 for an unwanted hen. They then sell their inventory
for a dollar mark-up. Geren's "Critter Corner" is a handy local resource
I've used a number of times myself. It is rare to find places that
will buy your surplus or unwated chickens. Geren's Farm Supply, 33680
S.E. Kelso Rd., Boring, Oregon 97009, 503-668-9323. |
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