[CushingResident]

I didn't know where to put something like this to try to find other people in Cushing, if there is any, who would like to have a few chickens in their backyard or some who already do.

If there are some who already have chickens in Cushing I'd like to talk to you.

I'd like to keep 3 hens in a pen in my yard but according to the code which was read to me over the phone (I have not got to read it myself yet) I can't.
This makes no sense to me, Cushing is a small "rural" town (to me anyway). Tulsa & OKC both allow backyard chickens as well as many other surrounding communities.
I was wondering if there were any other residents interested in this, maybe we could work together to see if we could get the code changed or give me ideas on how to do it.
I've never done anything like this but I do have ideas .... just not how to approach council.
I think a limited number of hens, say 3, would be fine ... no free roaming must be penned (clean), no roosters, & the rest would be covered by codes already in place, Noise & cleanliness & such. Same as any other pet in town ... just with added benefits of eggs & in my case fertilizer for our small veggie & flower gardens.
I apparently live a block within the city limits.

Thanks.

[OneDayAttaTime]

Originally Posted by CushingResident

I didn't know where to put something like this to try to find other people in Cushing.....

....I was wondering if there were any other residents interested in this

........ ideas on how to do it.

Does your city have a newspaper or radio station that has a very simple way to brainstorm, like we do with this forum?

[briansgi]

Maybe it's just me but, if you want to raise chickens move to the country!

[karibear]

Originally Posted by briansgi

Maybe it's just me but, if you want to raise chickens move to the country!

There's a big difference between raising chickens and keeping a few hens for eggs. Have you checked the price of eggs lately? Besides, practically every town and city has different ordinances regarding animals. Where my mother lived, she could have 2 dogs and 1 cat, or 2 cats and 1 dog, but not 3 of anything - and believe me, the cops checked! But I've also lived in places where some farm animals were okay, I knew some people in Bellingham WA who kept hens and a miniature horse, but couldn't have sheep or goats. There was another place, a farm inside the city limits of Bellingham that had all kinds of rights grandfathered in that kept feeder calves. One of their neighbors kept several tigers in cages, which I totally disapprove of, but there weren't any laws against it [though there may be by now]. Other places full-sized horses were okay, but not chickens. I have a couple dogs across the street from me who make more noise than a herd of pigs every time someone walks by, steps out a door, or just parks a car near them - but the dogs are legal, while a pig isn't. Horses are okay, but goats aren't. It's all just weird, and it depends on the town.

[Synopsis]

It doesn't make sense that a small town like Cushing would have those kinds of codes, when OkC and Tulsa don't. Especially if they are just HENS!

A rooster I can understand, crowing at the crack of dawn and all, even though that wouldn't bother me as I'm up BEFORE the crack of dawn anyway and I like the sound of a rooster crowing. But that's just me...

Heck, I think that even here in the city where I live in the middle of 6.5 million people you can have a few hens.

[EarthBound?]

Alot of those so called code were made up just because someone was a trusty and got a bug up thier butt because a neighbors critter upset them. The town that I lived in, a gentleman had sheep inside the city limits for years and was grandfathered in to have them. A couple from Cleveland bought the property next door and started to complain to the cops about the noise they were making. The police couldn't do a thing about it, so they went to the town counsel meeting and whinned. They tried to get signatures to protest the animals, but no one would sign it because they all grew up there and played with the sheep and lambs. So they gave up after a few years and sold thier house and moved back to Cleveland where they should have stayed.

A freind of mine actual had a couple protest at the township meeting that they wanted him to stop spreading manure on Sundays next to thier new home. And he had be doing the same thing for 30 years before they built thier house there. Oh, and he is still doing it .

Most problems like this are started because some city folks think that when they move into a rural area, that it should be the same as it was were they left.

[TulsaArtist]

Originally Posted by briansgi

Maybe it's just me but, if you want to raise chickens move to the country!

Are you trying to say that Cushing is NOT the country? lol

[whip]

Cushing is about the same size as Panama, and Panama has a code on livestock also. Good luck getting it changed. I have yet to see a small town council in Oklahoma that was not full of idiots.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by TulsaArtist

Are you trying to say that Cushing is NOT the country? lol

I bet to a lot of rural farm people Cushing sure as heck isn't country. Cushing is starting to get close to 10,000 in population.

[whip]

Does it really have that many people? I thought it was around 2K. If it's 10K then it's time to move to the country...lol