please help people have the right to keep chickens!

Lotus-eater

There are 4739 petitions on the site of number 10. What a waste of time.

Still gives the people a feel good factor and makes them think they are doing something.

Pessimist, no realist.

Lotus-eater

Poet wrote: »

what exactly is it that the naysayers find so wrong in the keeping of chickens in an urban environment?

Nothing, but there are two sides to every argument and you refuse to look at the other side.
I know chickens aren't any bother, I have kept them for years.

Poet_2

if you say so lotus eater.

Thanks to everyone who has signed, before this degenerates into tittle tattle, I'm off to do something equally "feel good" LOL

hope to see you in our facebook group

xxx

smk77

Poet wrote: »

wig, you are entitled to your opinion but a few chickens cause no problems at all if looked after properly. Barking dogs and defecating cats are more of a nuisance.

A neighbour of mine (well, hardly a neighbour, same road but about 100m away) breeds dogs..well I think that they're dogs - they may be wolves from the noise they make. Every time a police car or ice cream van passes they dogs start howling. I know that the people close to them have complained to the council but nothing has happened. It's a new house and the deeds clearly state that owners aren't allowed to breed dogs but that hasn't stopped them.

Does anyone here have neighbours with chickens that are a nuisance? I've always thought that their clucking noise is quite relaxing!

Wig

I find the noise of chickens annoying.

I agree that barking dogs are also a problem, and nuisance dogs should be investigated by all councils, dogs that constantly bark, or that bark at the slightest noise or pedestrian, car, or van or that happens to come by should be classed as a nuisance and the owners should be fined.

Luckily I don't have a noisy dog nearby, If I did, I'd be complaining about it.

I'm currently looking for a house, quite often, I'm viewing a house, I walk around the neighbourhood or the rear of the property, and I discover the house next door to the house for sale has a nuisance dog. The house for sale is promptly filed under "avoid at all costs". One house I went to, I was approaching the lane at the rear, and I could smell dog excrement -that's odd, I thought, probably some lying in the lane- I got to the rear of the house for sale, and the next house along had a wire fence gate, inside were two dogs in a wire cage and a stink of excrement. House details promptly filed to the rubbish bin.

If it was chickens, I'd do the same thing.

Poet_2

just popping back to share this link with you

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/03/18/support-flies-in-for-chicken-row-couple-61634-23168848/

"Chickens NOT Out!" is the facebook group I posted in the initial post.

:0)

Minxy_Bella

Poet wrote: »

just popping back to share this link with you

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/03/18/support-flies-in-for-chicken-row-couple-61634-23168848/

"Chickens NOT Out!" is the facebook group I posted in the initial post.

:0)

Yes, I read the story in the Journal this morning - I think it's outrageous that this smashing old couple are being harrassed by interfering busybodies! It's not as if they've only just started living the 'Good Life', is it?

They are a fine example to the rest of us - not least the yobbos and yuppies who wouldn't survive five minutes after a nuclear holocaust! Let them live the way they want to, say I!

Poet_2

I/we originally started the group to support Mr and Mrs Lewis but, from suggestions from members, it's grown to support anyone wanting to keep chickens that have problems with restrictions etc. Who knows if we'll make a difference but it won't stop us from trying :0)

Poet_2

Wig wrote: »

.....
If it was chickens, I'd do the same thing.

glad to hear you won't be moving in near me then!

MaximumImpact

Nothing, but there are two sides to every argument and you refuse to look at the other side.
I know chickens aren't any bother, I have kept them for years.

I keep chickens and waterfowl. I live in the country and I have had problems with my neighbours. Cockerels are a joy to keep, beautiful but noisy. Chickens aren't quiet and also bring with them rats.....

I believe that to keep ANY animal. you should have a licence. I don't believe that you have THE RIGHT to have any animal you please.

I think it's naive to think that it would be idyllic for every home to have chickens...can you imagine the rat infestations when Mrs Miggins decides not to clean out the chickens for a week??? What about the waste?? What happens when one household chickens catch a notifiable disease?? How would Mrs Miggins next door neighbours children feel when their pets are destroyed by Defra because of it???

I think you need to be sensible when keeping livestock...they are called livestock for a reason....