NJ TOWN FORCES GIRL TO GIVE UP 4-H CHICKENS FOR VIOLATING ‘LIVESTOCK ORDINANCE’
Posted on October 5, 2011 at 9:29pm
by Jonathon M. Seidl
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LOWER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (The Blaze/AP) — A 10-year-old girl is the latest to run afoul of a Cape May County town’s livestock ordinance.
Brianna Lyman, 10, has until Sunday to get rid of the two chickens she was raising for a 4-H project because her family’s yard falls short of the acre that Lower Township requires for farm animals.
A neighbor complained after the Rhode Island Red and a Black Silkie got loose and rooted through the neighbor’s yard.
The fifth-grader, who spent two years raising the chickens in hopes of winning a 4-H prize, told The Press of Atlantic City she was shocked.
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Argh!
I hope that someone gets her a good lawyer.
I wonder if that “far animal zoning” was past after they bought the property. Even it was, how would they have known they’d fall “a fowl” of it in the future.
Argh!
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