As much as I would like to buy in to the analogy that roaming chickens and crowing roosters are similar to barking dogs, it’s not exactly apples to apples. If there are enough complaints some have removed the animal from their homes, or taken them inside, or even to doggy daycare (my neighbor), you can’t really do any of those options for a crowing chicken. On top of I didn’t see anyone address the potential of additional threats wild animals cause chickens. Raccoons, fishers (they range from New England to TN), bobcats, and more. You can’t just give chickens away to others to join their flocks. It’s my understanding it takes about three weeks or you could have a coup. no pun intended. Good grief. Go to the farmers market in nashville if you want eggs cheap. They have delivery services as well. That’s not a good argument for having a few chickens in city limits in my mind. What happens when they start slowing in production in a few years, leading to death between 4- 8 years. We don’t even have animal control, so how would we plan on dealing with expiring chickens? I’ve already had a dead cow come down my creek during the big flood which means there wasn’t a good way of disposing of it prior, it was dead before flowing down. Is there a plan for the disposing of these especially when you lose part of the flock or part of a flock to a predator? What‘s the plan?
As much as I would like to buy in to the analogy that roaming chickens and crowing roosters are similar to barking dogs, it’s not exactly apples to apples. If there are enough complaints some have removed the animal from their homes, or taken them inside, or even to doggy daycare (my neighbor), you can’t really do any of those options for a crowing chicken. On top of I didn’t see anyone address the potential of additional threats wild animals cause chickens. Raccoons, fishers (they range from New England to TN), bobcats, and more. You can’t just give chickens away to others to join their flocks. It’s my understanding it takes about three weeks or you could have a coup. no pun intended. Good grief. Go to the farmers market in nashville if you want eggs cheap. They have delivery services as well. That’s not a good argument for having a few chickens in city limits in my mind. What happens when they start slowing in production in a few years, leading to death between 4- 8 years. We don’t even have animal control, so how would we plan on dealing with expiring chickens? I’ve already had a dead cow come down my creek during the big flood which means there wasn’t a good way of disposing of it prior, it was dead before flowing down. Is there a plan for the disposing of these especially when you lose part of the flock or part of a flock to a predator? What‘s the plan?
Please send all of this to the mayor and aldermen. They need to hear from all of the citizens, not just the ones that want chickens.
I believe I sent this to the Mayor but it might’ve been just prior to his vacation. I’m sure he’s swamped. I’ll resend to he and Mike Wall. Thanks
For real send it to all of the members of the board. They all want to hear from the citizens.