[Massplanners] Rooster question

Tue Aug 17 15:11:54 EDT 2021

Roosters don't make less noise than dogs or some cats even. It's a
pretty unfair bias that I hope more people fight against.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 1:51 PM Jonathan Kranz <jonkranz at kranzcom.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
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> If a town imposes regulations against roosters, could that town be
> described as “Cock Blocked”? (Asking for a friend.)
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> Best wishes,
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> Jonathan
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> Jonathan Kranz
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> jonkranz at kranzcom.com
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> Ayer, MA  01432
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> PS  Here's an excerpt from my 2011 "Zoning and Planning Law Report Awards"
> published by Thomson Reuters annually for the last 26 years:
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> The *Let's Play Chicken Award* goes to Willard, Missouri for issuing Mr.
> Mello an order to remove the 20 chickens and that very happy single rooster
> within 30 days, because apparently the city ordinance only allows farm
> animals to be raised on residential property of was 10 acres or larger. Mr.
> Mello lives on three-quarters of an acre.
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> Meanwhile, two aldermen in the city are rethinking prior rejected
> proposals that would have allowed three chickens and no roosters. Mr. Mello
> is holding out for six chickens and no roosters. As Mr. Mello's
> nine-year-old son Jacob says "The neighborhood dogs are much louder than
> the chickens."
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> This ratio of 20 chickens and one rooster brings to mind the psychology of
> sex and The Coolidge Effect as described by Psychology Today:
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> Scientists call the tendency to tire of a mate with whom one sexually
> satiates oneself, while mechanically perking up for a new one, the *Coolidge
> Effect*. They have observed this phenomenon widely among mammals,
> including females. Some female rodents, for example, flirt
> <http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/flirting> a lot more—arching in
> inviting displays—with unfamiliar partners
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3408449> than with those with which
> they've already copulated. In keeping with this phenomenon, when couples
> divorce <http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/divorce> because their sex
> lives have gone out of sync, the formerly uninterested spouse is often
> startled by a raging libido when a new lover enters the picture.
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> http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cupids-poisoned-arrow/200907/what-if-she-were-always-in-the-mood
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> The term was coined in 1955 by Ethologist
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethologist> Frank A. Beach
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Beach> at the suggestion of a
> student.  It comes from this wonderful old joke about President Coolidge,
> “Cool Calvin” as we New Englanders so fondly call him from his campaign
> slogan: “Keep Cool with Coolidge:”
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> The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an
> experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard
> she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the
> attendant how often that happened and was told, “Dozens of times each day.”
> Mrs. Coolidge said, “Tell that to the President when he comes by.” Upon
> being told, President asked, “Same hen every time?” The reply was, “Oh, no,
> Mr. President, a different hen every time.” President: “Tell that to Mrs.
> Coolidge.”
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> Dewsbury, Donald A. (2000) "Frank A. Beach, Master Teacher," *Portraits
> of Pioneers in Psychology, Volume 4,* p269-281
>
> *W**hat Do You Do With Evicted Chickens Award* goes to Winder City,
> Georgia which took on the chickens in residential zones problem early in
> 2011. The city’s initiative would allow 12 chickens per acre and has had
> ample public support with 78% of respondents saying they did not object to
> the chickens (the local KFC franchise was not allowed to vote). Only three
> people spoke in opposition at the public hearing. Still, the planning
> commission recommended denying recommended against changing the law. As
> city planner Larry Lucas explained: "Ultimately, the planning and zoning
> commission voted not to change the ordinance. They felt like the benefit of
> the few folks who saw that this was not a major disruption to their
> neighborhood's character were outweighed by the commitment of expensive
> would take to enforce the ordinance."  The most recent information is that
> the Council rejected the ordinance.
>
> The much-sought-after *Micromanagement Award* goes to Hopewell Township,
> New Jersey which this year adopted an ordinance that regulates when
> chickens and roosters can hook up in henhouses. Roosters must first
> demonstrate that they are disease free. The will be allowed in the henhouse
> only 10 days a year because mature roosters are too noisy. The ordinance
> actually provides if a  rooster gets a little too noisy over his latest
> conquest he can be banned from the property for up to two years, so the
> word around the henhouses is keep it down and be discreet.
>
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> Back to the *W**hat Do You Do With Evicted Chickens Award, a*pparently,
> there is an unintended consequence of banning chickens already kept on
> residential properties – there are no shelters. In the City of Auburn,
> Georgia, and Barrow County, Georgia as a whole, there is no place to put
> the homeless chickens. We all know about animal rescue operations and have
> seen them for dogs, cats, llamas, and rabbits but chickens?  We are pleased
> to report that an Internet search of the term "chicken rescue" yields
> Chicken Run Rescue - “Chicken Run Rescue is the only urban chicken rescue
> of its kind…” which just goes show you there’s a website every cause.[i]
> <#m_-5148039477891558561_m_-8211011629265418109__edn1>  At Chicken Run
> Rescue, you can even learn why chickens make great  companion animals:
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>    - Chickens are highly intelligent, gentle, vivacious individuals who
>    form strong lifelong emotional bonds with each other as well as other
>    species.
>    - They are warm and silky and lovely to hold.
>    - They are primarily ground dwelling birds who are very home and
>    routine centered and can thrive in a space the size of a normal urban
>    backyard and home. They can coexist happily with compatible dogs and cats
>    and have similar life spans.
>    - Adopting a chicken will increase compassion and reduce violence in
>    the world.
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> PetFinder.com lists about two dozen chickens available for adoption.  Farm
> Animal Shelter (http://www.farmanimalshelters.org) is an excellent
> resource for all types of farm animals.
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> The issue of raising chickens on residential properties has become of such
> national interest that of some of the leading academics in the field are
> writing on the subject, including the editor of this august publication.  See
> Patricia, Salkin, “Feeding the Locavores, One Chicken at a Time: Regulating
> Backyard Chickens,”
> http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1774023
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> [i] <#m_-5148039477891558561_m_-8211011629265418109__ednref1>
> http://www.brittonclouse.com/chickenrunrescue
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 1:32 PM Dwight Merriam <dwightmerriam at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Some places ban them completely, only because they make noise...see pages
> 25-26 of this publication
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> https://business.ct.gov/-/media/DOAG/Commish_and_Gov/LivestockGuidanceBookWEB-002-FINAL.pdf
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> Regards,
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> Dwight
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> See also:  https://rc.com/publications/upload/AgriUse_Merriam.pdf
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> Dwight Merriam, FAICP
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> dwightmerrima at gmail.com
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> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:15 AM Paul Dell'Aquila <psdplans at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Good morning -
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> I was wondering/hoping that someone out in MassPlanners Land had any
> recent experiences with regulating the number of roosters a residential
> property may have.
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> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul Dell'Aquila, AICP
>
> Upton Town Planner
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> pdellaquila at uptonma.gov
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