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Getting a Chicken Permit in Nashville

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:35:56 +0000

Well, a week after the chicken vote and the city is in the process of pulling permits together.

If you’re interested in getting your chicken permit, call Nashville’s Environmental Health Division at (615) 340-5653. You can add your name to the list and they will call you when the paperwork is ready to go.

My ladies are so excited!

My Chickens Are Legal

admin — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:15:06 +0000

Woo-hoo! And, check out the Amazon.com banner ad! It’s my book!!

Nashville Chickens…One More Vote to Legal

admin — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:39:50 +0000

The Continents Can Be Arranged to Form a Chicken

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:19:31 +0000

Tuesday’s Vote…the Fate of Nashville Chickens on the Line

admin — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:38:33 +0000

Metro Council will vote Tuesday evening — for or against allowing backyard hens in Davidson County. This is the most important vote in the process of legalizing backyard chickens in Nashville!

Davidson County residents: please send a short email to all Council members by using this email address: councilmembers @ nashville.gov. Include name and address, and in the subject line, state “please vote yes for backyard hen ordinance!” Send emails ASAP!

You can see the bill here: ORDINANCE NO. BL2011-47

Nashville’s Poultry Prohibition Under Fire!

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:32:40 +0000

The raging debate over the excruciatingly controversial chicken law heats up. Fox News covers the story again….

Amazing Photographs of Chickens and Other Farm Animals

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:24:02 +0000

I was checking into a flight at the Nashville airport when I saw an amazing photography exhibit.

Artist Sharon Lee Hart’s “Sanctuary” exhibition features residents of farm animal sanctuaries, including some cool roosters. I’m not usually impressed by animal portraits, they can be cheesy. Hart captures the personalities of these animals in interesting, beautiful photographs. I wish she would photograph my flock!

The exhibit will be on view through March 4, 2012. You can see her photos at farmanimalsanctuaryproject.com.

Josie the Cyclops

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:43:59 +0000

I have a sixth sense about my chickens. I knew I had trouble when Josie didn’t come running when I called her. After tromping through the honeysuckle, I found her hiding in the underbrush, a newly-minted cyclops. It’s morbidly interesting, I’ve never had this problem with a chicken. Her eyeball seems to be completely gone, just a bloody lump. There are no other apparent injuries, so my best guess is that she got extremely unlucky and was pecked. The area of injury does not have any suspicious items, like barbed wire. If it was a raptor, I’d expect to see talon injuries. A mammal would have just ripped her apart. So, we’ll blame her sisters (aren’t you glad your sisters don’t play so rough?)

Josie is sitting in a large tupperware box at my feet. I am going to flush her socket with saline and hope for the best. She seems a bit perkier this am, so I’m hoping she’ll recover soon. Photos seems a little much a this point. Ironically, our daughter suffered an eye injury in the corresponding eye, but a day before. Fortunately her eyeball is still intact, but it’s quite a a shiner.

Josie the Office Assistant

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:33:58 +0000

Chicken Joke From Dallas

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:42:39 +0000

Thank you Paul (and this will probably lose something in the translation, it seemed funnier when I was drinking beer).

So this family gets a turkey, to raise for their next Thanksgiving dinner (we’ll sub in chicken since it’s a chicken blog, but it’s probably funnier if you use turkey in the telling). But their kids love this chicken. In fact, the love this chicken more than the family dog. The kids feed it, play with it, dress it up, let it sleep in their bed. So, when Thanksgiving rolls around, they eat the family dog.