State Laws Concerning Backyard Chickens | Laws About Keeping (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune). See the Chicken Ordinance Survey (2010) by DePaul University students of professor Hugh Bartling. How many hens are permitted in these towns? Master's degree preferred. 7-2.6 Complaint forms for private citizens. Pollock, S.L., C. Stephen, N. Skuridina and T. Kosatsky. He said the city has discussed this in-depth in the last year and a half, and just finalized the text for Household Agriculture not long ago. Tulsa city councilors are still mulling over updates to regulations on backyard chickens. Our aim was a version that ChiChickEns members may approve if required at some point. Raising chickens in an urban backyard is not much different having a companion animal such as a cat or dog. 2009. The same amount of people who want chickens, weve got people who want bee hives, or ducks, or fowl, and we even had a request for a pot belly pig in the past in the city of Florence. Roben has two goats, six chickens and a duck in his backyard. You can cancel at any time. His goats, Archie and Elijah, 2, spend the day head butting each other, taking naps and snacking on whole peanuts, banana peels and hay. This dramatically reduces the risk of environmental pollution from backyard flocks. First look up the law, or ordinances concerning farm animals, and livestock. Dont bring up that you may eventually want to keep a small herd of dairy goats, too. Following a damaging late-night storm, Lewis is a bit late to feeding her chickens and one turkey, but she talked about them with ease as she released some corn and crumble onto the ground for the fowl to eat. In addition to transmitting disease, rodents can also spread lice, fleas, and mites. 4 0 obj
She went on to say that the Center for Disease Control only lists one disease as possibly coming from chickens, salmonella, and that can come from store-bought eggs too. The battle can go on for a long time. The spread of avian diseases, however, is primarily associated with other poultry and wild birds rather than with chickens.