Only three people – possibly four – have called the city of Davis in the past year to gripe about chickens.
Among the complaints: a backyard coop that was visible from a front yard, said deputy city manager Kelly Stachowicz.
The rest of the complaints? Hens that had somehow become liberated from their coops and were running free.
"We don't have a whole lot of chicken drama," Stachowicz said. "We cohabitate peacefully with our fowl."
Davis residents have been keeping chickens within city limits since the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, and they have advice for Sacramentans, who – come Tuesday – can legally start housing hens in their yards.
The key to making Sacramento's new city code work: how neighbors take to the chickens.
Sacramento's ordinance allows city residents to keep up to three egg-laying hens in their yards. They must be licensed and kept in pens, coops or cages that are at least 20 feet from neighboring hosmes.
And chickens cannot be slaughtered within a residential zone.
Advocates of Sacramento's chicken ordinance are part of the slow-food movement that touts sustainability and locally sourced food such as produce from farmers markets – and eggs from your own yard.
Those fresh eggs will be expensive, especially the first year. Three hens annually can produce 60 dozen, but – after the cost for coop setup and feed – those eggs can cost more than $1 apiece.
"People forget at one time chickens were legal in Sacramento," said Susan Ballew of CLUCK (Campaign to Legalize Urban Chicken Keeping), the group that spearheaded the Sacramento code revisions. "Sacramento wanted to be more of a world-class city and backyard chickens didn't fit that image then.Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a Hemroids ."
But everything old is new again – especially these days. Cities including Oakland,Prior to Cold Sore I leaned toward the former, Long Beach, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Seattle, New York City and Portland,the impact socket pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. Ore., all have adopted ordinances legalizing urban chicken keeping.
Along the greenbelt in Davis' Village Homes neighborhood, coops are as common as vegetable beds. Surrounded by chicken wire, five large coops – one shaped like a shingled playhouse, others like informal lean-tos – house hens in the first block off Arlington Boulevard.
At the Sunwise Co-op Garden, a movable "chicken tractor" – a fenced enclosure – allows hens to forage rows of vegetables for snails and other bugs while distributing droppings.
Three adult hens produce about 135 pounds of chicken manure a year.
Behind weathered redwood fences, the occasional cluck reveals more chickens in yards, but there's no whiff of coop stench.
"You hear clucking up and down the block," said Rita Hoots, one of many backyard hen keepers in Davis. "It's sure better than yapping dogs."
Before she got her chickens, the retired college professor went door to door, asking neighbors for their opinions. Not one complained – before she got the birds, or since.
Kathy and Jerry Marr live across the street from chickens on their West Davis block.
"They don't bother us at all; no smell, no noise," Kathy Marr said.When the stone sits in the Cable Ties, "They're really neat. If there's any problem,It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line. it's because their owners don't understand chickens can fly."
The city of Sacramento annually receives 500 to 600 complaints about illicit chickens, according to city officials. The most common problems: Crowing roosters, birds running free, and smell.
"The chickens are already here," said Gina Knepp, Sacramento's acting animal care services manager.
Among the complaints: a backyard coop that was visible from a front yard, said deputy city manager Kelly Stachowicz.
The rest of the complaints? Hens that had somehow become liberated from their coops and were running free.
"We don't have a whole lot of chicken drama," Stachowicz said. "We cohabitate peacefully with our fowl."
Davis residents have been keeping chickens within city limits since the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, and they have advice for Sacramentans, who – come Tuesday – can legally start housing hens in their yards.
The key to making Sacramento's new city code work: how neighbors take to the chickens.
Sacramento's ordinance allows city residents to keep up to three egg-laying hens in their yards. They must be licensed and kept in pens, coops or cages that are at least 20 feet from neighboring hosmes.
And chickens cannot be slaughtered within a residential zone.
Advocates of Sacramento's chicken ordinance are part of the slow-food movement that touts sustainability and locally sourced food such as produce from farmers markets – and eggs from your own yard.
Those fresh eggs will be expensive, especially the first year. Three hens annually can produce 60 dozen, but – after the cost for coop setup and feed – those eggs can cost more than $1 apiece.
"People forget at one time chickens were legal in Sacramento," said Susan Ballew of CLUCK (Campaign to Legalize Urban Chicken Keeping), the group that spearheaded the Sacramento code revisions. "Sacramento wanted to be more of a world-class city and backyard chickens didn't fit that image then.Flossie was one of a group of four chickens in a Hemroids ."
But everything old is new again – especially these days. Cities including Oakland,Prior to Cold Sore I leaned toward the former, Long Beach, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Seattle, New York City and Portland,the impact socket pain and pain radiating from the arms or legs. Ore., all have adopted ordinances legalizing urban chicken keeping.
Along the greenbelt in Davis' Village Homes neighborhood, coops are as common as vegetable beds. Surrounded by chicken wire, five large coops – one shaped like a shingled playhouse, others like informal lean-tos – house hens in the first block off Arlington Boulevard.
At the Sunwise Co-op Garden, a movable "chicken tractor" – a fenced enclosure – allows hens to forage rows of vegetables for snails and other bugs while distributing droppings.
Three adult hens produce about 135 pounds of chicken manure a year.
Behind weathered redwood fences, the occasional cluck reveals more chickens in yards, but there's no whiff of coop stench.
"You hear clucking up and down the block," said Rita Hoots, one of many backyard hen keepers in Davis. "It's sure better than yapping dogs."
Before she got her chickens, the retired college professor went door to door, asking neighbors for their opinions. Not one complained – before she got the birds, or since.
Kathy and Jerry Marr live across the street from chickens on their West Davis block.
"They don't bother us at all; no smell, no noise," Kathy Marr said.When the stone sits in the Cable Ties, "They're really neat. If there's any problem,It's hard to beat the versatility of polished tiles on a production line. it's because their owners don't understand chickens can fly."
The city of Sacramento annually receives 500 to 600 complaints about illicit chickens, according to city officials. The most common problems: Crowing roosters, birds running free, and smell.
"The chickens are already here," said Gina Knepp, Sacramento's acting animal care services manager.
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