Sacramento council OKs up to three hens in city back yards

Sac Bee ^ | Aug. 30, 2011 | Ryan Lillis

[Selene]

Chickens are no longer backyard outlaws in Sacramento.

With a unanimous vote tonight, the City Council passed an ordinance that will allow city residents to keep up to three egg-laying hens in their back yards starting Nov. 1.

...Dr. Glennah Trochet, the county's public health officer, said she has spoken with state health officials and poultry experts at UC Davis and neither recommended striking down a backyard chicken ordinance because of concerns over disease, including the bird flu.

[Selene]

I find this odd.

Check out the picture at the link. LOL.

[SatinDoll]

I would like to have 3 or 4 laying hens on my property. They eat the bugs, fertilyze the soil, and in return you get fresh eggs.

The birds wouldn’t take up much room and would be no more trouble to care for than a couple of dogs.

[agrarianlady]

Well, good.

I wish my HOA would. I have one acre and four aggravating deer in the yard every day, but no hens allowed. (They won’t allow a bow hunter here, either.)

[giotto]

WTH? The chickens look like they're trying to ignore her.

This needs a caption.

[P-Marlowe]

I have a friend in the Sac area that keeps bats in his back yard.

[Brad’s Gramma]

What IS that woman doing?? LOL!!

Did you read the comments, too??

[TwoSwords]

I teach chickens the Macarena through a NEA grant.

[knarf]

I'm coming to GET yoooo ...

[smokingfrog]

I think she's doin' The Funky Chicken.

[goat granny]

Nothing taste better than farm fresh eggs. Just don’t get a rooster. Those idiots start to crow BEFORE the sun comes up....

[HiTech RedNeck]

that’s a tenth of the quota of french hens in the 12 days of christmas....

[HiTech RedNeck]

Cock-a-doodle-doo is rooster for “feed me!” Get an automatic timed feeder and your rooster house will reward you with blissful silence at dawn.

[goat granny]

When I had the farm and too many roosters, believe me its not feeding time they are crowing. Its their ownership of certain area's of the farm....#1 rooster that lived in the coop with the hens crowed first. #2 rooster in the far barn would answer, #3 that lived in the pasture would crow his territory, #4 that roosted in the pine trees would crow. Then the geese would honk and it would start all over again with rooster #1. One night they keep up up crowing and honking, along with the dog that barked everytime the geese honked after dark and I sat up in the bed and told myself "my lord I live in a friggin zoo". Got rid of all the roosters except the nasty one that claimed the cook and hens....they usually started around 4:30 until the sun came up...

Oh yea, I had one that had territory ON TOP of the chicken coop. that made 5...

[Kirkwood]

“Cock-a-doodle-doo is rooster for “feed me!” Get an automatic timed feeder and your rooster house will reward you with blissful silence at dawn.”

LOL! So many chicken “experts” on FR tonight who apparently have never stepped foot on a farm.

[HiTech RedNeck]

buck buck buck buck-aw

[Kirkwood]

She is clucked up.

[gogogodzilla]

You need a rooster to get eggs from a hen...

[goat granny]

no you don’t unless your want fertilized eggs. I did have a table top incubator for my pheasant eggs. Thats all the rooster is good for...

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

Dearest Citizen/Subject:

The most high Council of Sacramento doth hereby magnanimously grant you the privilege of feeding yourselves with eggs. And at the low, low price of $25 plus $10 per chicken. Please limit yourselves to a maximum of three chickens. If your back yard is not at least 50’ x 50’, you cannot meet the requirement that no chicken coop shall be less than 20’ from adjoining property.

Happy Labor Day,
The Most High Council of the Duchy of Sacramento