South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 25, 2008 | Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

[sheana]

When her neighbor's roosters and chickens persisted in running through her yard, G. Stone took matters into her own hands.

She marched next door and issued a warning: Do something about the uninvited guests or the birds "were going in my pot."

The incursions stopped. But Stone, a retired Los Angeles County librarian who lives northwest of Watts, shook her head in exasperation as she recalled the incident.

"I've lived here for 50 years," she said. "All of a sudden, there's an influx of chickens. You're not supposed to have chickens in the city."

For many, the image of South Los Angeles is that of a paved, parched, densely packed urban grid. But increasingly, it is also a place where untold numbers of barnyard animals -- chickens, roosters, goats, geese, ducks, pigs and even the odd pony -- are being tended in tiny backyard spaces

[sheana]

We still have neighborhoods here within the city limits that are zoned for animals. They are 3/4 of an acre or acre lots though.
Heck if all my neighbors start getting chickens I will just get me a bunch too.
In California we can’t beat em so we might as well join them....that seems to be the philosophy anyway.

[Cinnamon Girl]

Being a liberal democrat is all fun and games until another democrat voting block gets on your nerves.

[VeniVidiVici]

Hen-pecked by constituent calls about rooster noise, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn recently proposed limiting each household to one rooster and setting up new procedures to deal with loud birds.

I'd love to know if this lady is dealing with this issue because her last name means rooster in German :)

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Avian Flu

[nina0113]

>>Heck if all my neighbors start getting chickens I will just get me a bunch too.
<<

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/

I recommend Buff Orpingtons.

[La Enchiladita]

Everyone who grew up in L.A., raise your hand. Very few of you, I’m sure.

People have always kept chickens in the yard in L.A.

The L.A. Times author is no doubt a newcomer also. And maybe the complaining neighbors would prefer to hear rap “music” and gunfire.....

[La Enchiladita]

LOL.

[La Enchiladita]

Your comments will surely fall on deaf ears.

Oh wait, they already have...:)

[gubamyster]

ping

[sheana]

I just found this website that lists different cities rules for keeping chickens.

http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/chickenlaws.html

I am in Bakersfield and yes I did spend about 6 years of my childhood growing up in L.A. I lived in Glendale, Hollywood, and Tujunga. It is definitely not the same L.A.

[Ron H.]

Could this be in your neighborhoods near future?! Complete with chickens and goats?!

[dennisw]

I hear about front yards planted in corn -— It reminds these peasants of good ol’ Mexico

[ruination]

Everyone who grew up in L.A., raise your hand. Very few of you, I’m sure. People have always kept chickens in the yard in L.A.

41 years and counting for me - and I don't remember ever seeing or hearing chickens except maybe once or twice.

[steveo]

Back when I was raising chickens (various purebreds), I'd take to auction HUGE Rhode Island Red roosters. I'd get 15 to 20 dollars for a nice looking bird.

I also had a little goat. His name was goaty-goat and he would come running whenever he heard my voice or my car. He loved playfully pushing his head against my leg or my hand... sadly he decided my wife's roses were lunch one day so he ended up at the auction. I got $150 for him and he got turned into bar-b-que I'm sure.

[E. Cartman]

South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards

Exactamente como el querido mexico.

[dennisw]

Plenty of anti illegal alien posts at that Geraldo Rivera post at the Huffington Post

[Fiji Hill]

She is a librarian. By default she is almost certainly a lib and favors unchecked immigration.

How can you be so sure? How do you know that she doesn't keep her library's collection well-supplied with the works of Ann Coulter, Dinesh D'Souza, John Bolton, Mona Charen, Friedrich von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Whittaker Chambers?

[AuntB]

“”I’ve lived here for 50 years,” she said. “All of a sudden, there’s an influx of chickens. You’re not supposed to have chickens in the city.””

Laws are for citizens, sweetie, get used to it. Illegal aliens don’t have to follow our laws, so why should they bother. In the neighborhood I moved from, they not only had chickens, but fighting roosters and goats. Price of my property fell $100,000.00 in 3 weeks. It took them only 3 weeks to totally destroy the ‘hood’ that I’d lived in peacefully, quietly, MANICURED for 30 years.

[AuntB]

“BTW..those aren’t chickens..they are fighting cocks.”

The ol’ gal is going to have a surprise when she grabs one of them and tries to stuff it in a pot.

[humblegunner]

BTW..those aren’t chickens..they are fighting cocks.

Lesbians?