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| TJinMT |
Posted - May 13 2011 : 3:50:46 PM
Hi gals!
Well we're off and running, trying to get the old chicken ordinances changed in Billings, MT. Educating folks on how wonderful a few backyard hens can be... asking the city Zoning commission and Council to amend the ordinances. Whoop!
I'd love it if you guys could check out our blogsite and let me know if you have any suggestions!!
www.BillingsBackyardHens.wordpress.com -
Thanks a ton!!
~TJ of Green Willow Place
www.MyWesternHome.wordpress.com
"We make a living by what we get, but we build a life by what we give." ~Thomas S. Monson |
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - May 18 2011 : 4:40:55 PM
Good for you, TJ!! Sounds like you have a cute little set up with your new girls. I am so glad you got some chicks now.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| TJinMT |
Posted - May 18 2011 : 11:03:21 AM
Any Farmgirls in Billings, MT... we're having a meeting of the Billings Backyard Hen Initiative at 7PM Thursday, May 19 at Off the Leaf!
Free stuff from the USDA Poultry Bio-Security folks, flyers, petitions, etc.
Billings and Great Falls are the only two cities in the top 10 (population-wise) cities in Montana that don't allow urban chickens YET... (although I haven't been able to ascertain about Butte).
There's gotta be a Farmgirl badge for taking on City Hall, right?  Or fighting for our right to be a hen-keeping farmgirl in town??
Thanks ya'll!
~TJ of Green Willow Place
www.MyWesternHome.wordpress.com
"We make a living by what we get, but we build a life by what we give." ~Thomas S. Monson |
| TJinMT |
Posted - May 14 2011 : 5:36:21 PM
Thanks, gals! (or should I say chicks? naw... I'll avoid the chicken puns.)
It's crazy - over 65% of American cities and towns are now allowing a limited number of backyard hens. I sat in my backyard today and listened closely... I heard crows. I heard pigeons. I heard chickadees and robin birds sometimes I even hear a meadowlark. And far below them on the noise scale, the interested-sounding peeps and twerps and coos of 4 little Buff Orpington hen-lets... about 6 weeks old and definitely in their awkward stage, peering out of our cute little coop, scratching in the straw, slurping down the bugs my kids happily kept finding. Too fun!!
SalemChickens.org has a very interesting, funny, and quite informative DVD out on their fight to allow chickens in Salem, OR. They went through quite the battle... they won! Alot of cities in Oregon even have Chicken Coop tours, with hundreds of folks visiting the coops on the list! Like, 700?! How fun would that be!
Anyway... thanks for ya'lls encouragement - any ideas would be appreciated!!!
~TJ of Green Willow Place
www.MyWesternHome.wordpress.com
"We make a living by what we get, but we build a life by what we give." ~Thomas S. Monson |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - May 14 2011 : 06:20:08 AM
Good luck, TJ. I am pulling for y'all. I sure hope it passes. I don't see a thing wrong with a few back yard chickens. And I love the cute little hen houses some of these people come up with. Maybe you could show some of the hen houses to the council. Might help the cause if they saw how cute they can be.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| LucyLobo511 |
Posted - May 14 2011 : 06:11:15 AM
Prayers to you and all. Our village board changed our rules after the fact totally illegal but I didn't have the energy to fight evil people right now Keep educating don't give up
Insane and Blissfully Happy
Mari-lyn
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| Fiddlehead Farm |
Posted - May 13 2011 : 3:57:33 PM
Good Luck! We tried to do this in Janesville and got voted down, so the next election for city council came and we voted them down. We can bring the ordinance change up again when 6 months passes!
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