Help save our family pets and our neighborhoods beautiful birds. 

In March we decided to expand our family by 10 chicks. We spent our weekends building our coop and run, while raising our little birds. We welcomed our neighbors and community to be a part of the process - as we had so many who were so excited for us. We had so many neighbors come to help us on the day it was time to move the coop to it's forever home in our yard!

Since they were chicks, each bird has had his or her own name. We have a name board for our neighbors to see and call the birds by name. We have taken great pride in our coop and our birds. Our neighbors are often found standing outside the fence watching and interacting with our birds. 

Upon raising our chicks, we noticed that 2 of them were roosters. We knew we would rehome them as a courtesy to our neighbors (and our hens!). 3 days after we rehomed our 20 week old roosters, we received a knock at the door from the county. They notified us someone had complained about the noise and we have 15 days to remove all the birds from our property. We are apparently an RC1 zone of the county which prohibits hens. This news is absolutely devastating. We have since learned we could house a horse or pony in our yard (not as a pet, but simply as a horse/pony), but not our chickens. Our chickens are our pets. While we understand the roosters may have caused some noise, they are now no longer living in our property. 

We consider them a part of our family and an important part of our children's lives (ours and our community). We are petitioning our neighbors to come and support our small farm family in advocating the dismissal of the request to remove our pets from our property. 

By signing this petition, you are stating you are not affected by the noise from our birds or the visual sight of them. You are stating you agree with us that they are our family's pets and they should be granted the opportunity to stay. You are stating the county complaint that was submitted should be dismissed.