Comments on: Town Staff Recommends Allowing Backyard Chickens https://capecharleswave.com/2014/02/town-staff-recommends-allowing-backyard-chickens/ Your Online Newspaper in Cape Charles, Virginia Fri, 07 Aug 2015 21:55:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: Jan Taylor-Day https://capecharleswave.com/2014/02/town-staff-recommends-allowing-backyard-chickens/#comment-33140 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 03:54:43 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=11492#comment-33140 As a child in elementary school I raised bantam chickens in our backyard. My dad built a very nice small hen house and fully enclosed “chicken run” . As the sole caretaker, I gathered the eggs daily and watered and fed my feathered friends–they were my pets as well. I favor allowing citizens the pleasure of keeping hens. We kept 5 to 6 hens (no roosters) and never killed them for food. My parents used their manure in our extensive gardens and we shared their eggs with our neighbors.

]]> By: Don Glowinski https://capecharleswave.com/2014/02/town-staff-recommends-allowing-backyard-chickens/#comment-33054 Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:05:49 +0000 http://capecharleswave.com/?p=11492#comment-33054 We live in Indianapolis IN and have property in Cape Charles. We allow each homeowner in the city limits of Indianapolis 6 hens, no roosters. Predators and rodents have not been a problem.

I am also the poultry superintendent of the county and work with the State poultry association. The benefits are great. For once the town council should do something good for the town instead of constantly shooting themselves in the foot.

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