[Massplanners] Rooster question

Tue Aug 17 15:20:17 EDT 2021

who could forget Salem's Chicken Gate of 2014...
https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/judge-sides-with-chickens-in-appeal/article_4334f672-8bc6-596d-aef4-cb2673b6f144.html

Our zoning ordinance prohibits roosters but hens are okay as long as
they're outside in a coop.

Bonus: Pickle Gate of 2018:
https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/farms-pickle-business-draws-hearing-fire/article_0eb7cc33-155d-54f6-adb2-b5c2b4db5f1e.html

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 3:13 PM Liz Volchok <lvolchok at ihtmv.org> wrote:

> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>> If a town imposes regulations against roosters, could that town be
>> described as “Cock Blocked”? (Asking for a friend.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
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>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Jonathan Kranz
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>> jonkranz at kranzcom.com
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>>
>> Ayer, MA  01432
>>
>>
>>
>> PS  Here's an excerpt from my 2011 "Zoning and Planning Law Report
>> Awards" published by Thomson Reuters annually for the last 26 years:
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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."
>>
>>
>>
>> This ratio of 20 chickens and one rooster brings to mind the psychology
>> of sex and The Coolidge Effect as described by Psychology Today:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/cupids-poisoned-arrow/200907/what-if-she-were-always-in-the-mood
>>
>> 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:”
>>
>> 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.”
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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_-4685693536413878253_m_-5148039477891558561_m_-8211011629265418109__edn1>
>> At Chicken Run Rescue, you can even learn why chickens make great
>> companion animals:
>>
>>
>>
>>    - 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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]
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>> 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:
>>
>> Some places ban them completely, only because they make noise...see pages
>> 25-26 of this publication
>>
>>
>> https://business.ct.gov/-/media/DOAG/Commish_and_Gov/LivestockGuidanceBookWEB-002-FINAL.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dwight
>>
>>
>>
>> See also:  https://rc.com/publications/upload/AgriUse_Merriam.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> Dwight Merriam, FAICP
>>
>> dwightmerrima at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:15 AM Paul Dell'Aquila <psdplans at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Good morning -
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Paul Dell'Aquila, AICP
>>
>> Upton Town Planner
>>
>> pdellaquila at uptonma.gov
>>
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