Chickens in Denver neighborhoods: City Council takes on the urban homesteading clusterpluck

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• Roosters are illegal  now, and they would be illegal under the proposed ordinance. The new ordinance would not change a thing with respect to roosters. And despite Mr. Bertini's continued insistence on bringing the issue up, slaughtering is NOT included in the proposed ordinance, and there is absolutely zero chance it will be added to the ordinance tonight. All that being said, at last Monday's public hearing, there were 53 people who testified about the ordinance. Out of those 53, 49 were in favor of the ordinance, and only 4 were opposed. Pretty impressive display of community involvement from Denver's citizens. Let's hope that City Council listens.

• Strong post, Solar Satellite. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

• I am all in favor of allowing people to keep chickens, but your reference to turning in people with roosters reminds me that the City's response to other issues relating to the disturbance of the peace is simply to ignore them -- have you ever tried to get Animal Control to do anything about a neighbor's barking dog for instance?  For all the concerns expressed by career politicians about dispensaries in neighborhoods, there seems to be a complete disregard for weekly disturbances from 10pm-2am caused by the patrons Park Tavern (and, I suspect, just about any bar).  If the City has to do anything to regulate the keeping of chickens, it may be a bad idea, based on its failure to enforce multitudinous other ordinances.

• Americans have long had the reputaton as conspicuous consumers and urban farming is helping to turn that around. Instead of watering grass, water plants that provide your family with food. There is nothing tastier than bush rippened berries, fresh tomatoes and fresh eggs. I would guess that neighborhood dogs  barking is no less botherseme than a rooster crowing. If your neighbor  gets a rooster, turn them in if you don't like it. There are remedies, no need to thow out the baby with thebath water.

• They say "no male birds," but I've lived next to two different households where they have chickens AND a rooster.  Those little fockers can start crowing at 4am and they won't stop! 

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