06-21-2013, 06:25 AM
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Originally posted by Canuck
@ourdoc the roosters are only allowed because of the zoning laws in HPP. In order to change the rooster situation one has to change the zoning laws. In residential areas one is only allowed to have 1 rooster.
However people aren't willing to give up their zoning rights.
Actually it doesn't take changing the zoning laws at all. It has been done in many counties throughout the country for the noise abatement, the County Council could just pass a regulation that limits roosters to one per acre period. There is no legitimate reason for more than one rooster unless you raising them for illegal activities. One rooster I could live with. But our current and last County Council representatives refuse to even look at it as it might offend the criminal constituents they have that enjoy cock fighting including some of them. Its the same reason the HCPD does little to deter it. My neighbor has been caught selling and fighting cocks so many times over the years, now they tell him one more time he is caught fighting them he goes to jail (which should have happened the first and every time as required by law), so now he just sells them. I have video taped him throwing down cocks to fight for a few seconds in order to sell them, but this isn't enough for them to even investigate, and I'm retired from HCPD.
Of course none of this takes into account all the loose chickens running around everywhere that can get quite annoying, he doesn't want chickens, just roosters...
Sorry for going off topic but after 20 years of this..... We are tired of trapping chickens...