01-20-2018, 03:59 AM
"Then why doesn't it say that? It doesn't say "you can't raise birds to fight".
There are already laws in place for that. They are easily circumvented by the owners referring to them as "show birds" instead of "fighting cocks".
There has been a Renaissance of sorts in many urban areas allowing folks to have egg hens within city limits that use to prohibit the keeping of any kind of livestock. These laws usually stipulate that no roosters are allowed. It sounds like this proposal seeks to install something similar here except that it would apply to AG land.
"anyone with more than 4 roosters to house birds a minimum of 75 feet from all property boundaries"
I haven't read the proposed law, but I think "housing" is different than "possessing". At any one time we have more than 4 roosters on our property. We don't actually own any of them because they showed up out of the jungle. We don't house them. Tying their leg to a stake in the ground under a little metal roof until they get big enough to fight to the death- that's a "housed" rooster.
"Or Safeway"
I would be surprised if Safeway sells "true" capon meat, even though any neutered rooster can earn the label, it's different than growing out a neutered bird into adulthood and fattening it up.
There are already laws in place for that. They are easily circumvented by the owners referring to them as "show birds" instead of "fighting cocks".
There has been a Renaissance of sorts in many urban areas allowing folks to have egg hens within city limits that use to prohibit the keeping of any kind of livestock. These laws usually stipulate that no roosters are allowed. It sounds like this proposal seeks to install something similar here except that it would apply to AG land.
"anyone with more than 4 roosters to house birds a minimum of 75 feet from all property boundaries"
I haven't read the proposed law, but I think "housing" is different than "possessing". At any one time we have more than 4 roosters on our property. We don't actually own any of them because they showed up out of the jungle. We don't house them. Tying their leg to a stake in the ground under a little metal roof until they get big enough to fight to the death- that's a "housed" rooster.
"Or Safeway"
I would be surprised if Safeway sells "true" capon meat, even though any neutered rooster can earn the label, it's different than growing out a neutered bird into adulthood and fattening it up.