#chicken keeper

[homeofhousechickens]

🐓RALLY THE FLOCK🐓

Please send an email in favor of appealing HB 2062 to you Senator, House, AG and Sen Michael Moon.

Find your house rep and senator to include with Mike Moon and the AG:

[email protected]

[email protected]

Template you can use under the cut

"Good afternoon-

I’m writing as a Missouri resident and homeowner who strongly supports the right to keep a small number of backyard hens. The recent Cole County ruling overturning HB 2062 has created confusion, frustration and uncertainty for families across the state, especially those of us living in communities where this law finally brought a little common sense balance between HOAs and homeowners.

I’m respectfully asking you to support an appeal of the ruling in Four Seasons Lakesites v. State of Missouri, so the law can continue to stand while the courts fully review the decision.

Families shouldn’t lose their rights because one bill was struck down on a procedural technicality. HB 2062 protected reasonable, responsible backyard hen ownership, not roosters, not large flocks, not anything disruptive. Just the ability for Missouri families to keep up to six hens on their own property for eggs, sustainability and food security.

Backyard hens are quieter than most dogs, cause fewer complaints than loud lawn equipment and offer real benefits to households and communities. Many Missouri cities already allow hens without issue. This law helped provide consistency and fairness statewide.

I’m asking for your help to ensure:

• The State moves forward with an official appeal,

• Missouri families don’t lose a right we were just finally granted and

• A clean, single subject version of the bill is prepared if needed in the next session.

I appreciate your time, your service and your attention to an issue that matters more to everyday families than most people realize. Thank you for considering support for an appeal and for protecting the rights of responsible homeowners across Missouri."

[thestudentfarmer]

Just sharing a few pics of the gals today

[allosaurusrock]

[onegoosemad]

Chicken post today! My babes out in the sun. The wheaten Marans are a little over a month old now, the boy is the black one and the girl is the wheaten. And my barnevelder boy giving me daggers.

[angryisokay]

Chicken People of Tumblr

I figure I would let you know about this story of a guy in my state who has been given criminal charges for keeping chickens.

What should have been a mere zoning issue exploded into a full criminal case, and now he owes just over $900, and could end up spending 30 days in jail, because he has 11 chickens.

This is ridiculous, the city is wasting time and money to make an example of him because he choose to stand up for himself and not bow down to the demands of his neighbors.

[awkwardblog]

I just sent Austin a message. BAHAHAHAHHAHAHello Austin, I'm a friend of Olivia from the awkwardblog, and I have to say, she has showed me the menacing false advertisement that you display with the title of your blog. Contrary to popular belief, this blog doesn't seem to be about things that are organized neatly at all. I think you should rename your blog something more appropriate, such as "Artistically Placed Items That Serve Little To No Practicality." Different tools placed on a sheet on the floor and then photographed is not something that is organized neatly, it is something that someone would take pictures of to catalog their tool supply. If said tools were stratigically placed in containers, labeled, and arranged in alphabetical order, well, maybe then I would be pleased with the title of your blog. Although, I do appreciate your non-tumblr website, and how you make it super hard to navigate. Did you do this to keep the less intelligent/elderly away?Thank you, AndrewThursdays with Hailey Recurring StarOperator of the Cockerel-On-His-Way blogChicken Keeper

Andrew!!! This is the funniest thing I have EVER read. And it is so true. All of it. Especially about his personal website. This actually just made my day. I wish I could like this once I post it, but I don't think I'll be able to. I'm going to try anyway.

EDIT: I couldn't like it. Oh well. I guess that's okay because I actually love this. So much. You're the best, Andrew.