At New Majority, David Frum has been running a series of photos of conservatives and their dogs. Wellsir, two can play at that game. Today I announce my intention of running photos of Crunchy Con readers (because not all of you are conservatives) and their chickens. We'll start with me and Dottie, a New Hampshire red from our little flock. Send your jpegs to me at rdreher -at - dallasnews.com.
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Once my husband is home from his deployment to Afghanistan we are going to get some chickens and try to start a garden. I think we can actually have up to 6 chickens. We live in Seattle, but we are in a green belt. So I think the big predators to be concerned about are the red foxes and raccoons we have living in our area. Our parish has a community garden that we might try to take part in as well.
Geoff G:
I clicked on the link you sent. The restrictions that are placed on urban chicken keeping, such as: maximum numbers, containment, set backs from the property line, aesthetics of the coop, etc, are designed with community in mind. In general, user fees should approximate the cost of "use." (Our annual fee is $25. and I consider that too high.) User fees, especially in the matter of food, should exist to cover costs, but not as a means of generating revenue for the City. On the other hand, if high fees are being used to control behavior, then it should be obtained through penalties for non-compliance, but not for reasonable and compliant use. Denver's chicken fee looks like a punitive fee to me, not a user based fee.
I don't have any chickens or other pets, but that is a really cute picture, Rod.
Seattle is quite enlightened. We have an annual Urban Chicken Coop tour.
Judith-
Great idea ie moving the regulation of backyard animals to animal control. After working with our City Council on other neighborhood issues, I had pretty much given up the idea of bringing up the chicken issue. Lets just say they arent quite ready for the idea. :) And then our local newspaper just published an article about backyard chickens and it was quite clear that all thought it was well good that chicken belong elsewhere. Its been all a matter of picking battles...but thats an interesting stealth move. Now if I can find some other chicken lovers to join me...
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