How did this work out for you?
Discussion
I took down the run and returned all the materials I could. Sold all the chicken stuff and chickens in a bundle deal to a local that has chickens already. Built a raised bed with some of the leftovers.
It wasn’t worth trying to rationalize with the township. They wanted to charge me $500 just to go to a meeting and plead my case which really pissed me off. (Civil servants my ass) and no one in recent history has every been approved to have chickens in the township. Even people with 5 acres.
It’s the most upset and disappointed I’ve been in a long long time. More so because my young daughter won’t get to experience having chickens at her age, and obviously the bit of self sufficiency that would provide to our family.
They say that chickens are the "gateway drug" of farm animals.
I think that they have been the "gateway drug" to voluntarism/anarchism or at the least gateway to libertarianism the last few years as more people have tried to get backyard chickens and been denied by their local gubment.
The idea that you cant have a handful of hens in a backyard is ridiculuous.
Where I am at they have strange calculations for how many animals per acre if you have under 3 acres. I think a dog equals 3 chickens. As long as you have at least 1 acre...I think. Its weird.
Sad.
Glad you got those beds going though, they look great.