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[theconsciouscorgi]

Funny enough, I’m the HOA president of my neighborhood and I’m currently amending the rules to allow poultry foul so people can have chickens including myself

[michaelmalone]

Why I just bought 3.5 arces of unrestricted country land. A bonus is directly behind our property is a 5k acre wildlife preserve.😁

[lucasanderson]

I live in a place with an HOA unfortunately, but I’m a disabled vet and I have been able to bend the rules and have a “service goat”. I’ve been doing this now for 3 years and my VA doc supports me 100% with it signing the proper paperwork every year for a new goat. The HOA knows what I’m doing and hates it, but can’t do anything about it.

[candicechristensen]

"the department of making you sad"🤣😅😂 PREACH!!! You're so right! Some of those regulations are ridiculous!!

[theheritagehousesc]

Great video! We had two hives in our backyard in a subdivision with HOA rules for a year before the manager found out. All our neighbors knew about our bees but they didn’t care. One day I caught a swarm that had moved into the tree between our property and our neighbors and a neighbor brought his ladder to me to get it. Well, he took a video of me getting the swarm and someone saw it and we were asked to remove them. But there were no rules against bees so we removed them a couple months later when we moved into our new property on 24 acres. We have four now. Win-win. 😁

[WyldfireKeeper]

Just an FYI for those of you reviewing this video: Most HOAs and covenants don’t say “chicken” anymore. They say “fowl” or “poultry, ” which unfortunately eliminates a large chunk of this list unless you find a loophole.

[tmatt]

good video, my first home was in a city in an HOA. When we first got there some old lady asked me to sign a petition against some person that had geese in a retention pond. I refused to sign and I said that I was going to put up a pigeon coup. I had the zoning manager with the city call and tell me that I cannot keep pigeons or any other livestock in the city. Next, about two months later they came around with the geese petition again. I told them that I keep a milk goat in my garage, and an animal control officer and a police officer came around to check on the well-being of the goat. The police officer wanted to arrest me for telling the HOA I had a goat but his supervisor told him not to. Within the month, I moved into the county on 15 acres where I can do what I want.

[thebessandmikeshow]

One of requirements for me buying a house was it had to be in a place with no HOA. People who make you sad. I call them something a lot worse than that - some people just don't have enough problems. I think there are some ordinances in the town where I live, but I'm too busy turning my neighbors into chicken keepers to notice.

[hillockfarm]

Rules against livestock usually are based on problems with : noise, stink and attraction of flies, mice and rats (from spilled feed and not rat/mouse proofing the animal housing).
All of these are mainly due to bad care, but also climate (heat). If you can avoid those problems and keep them out of sight ( right along with the vegtable plot and the drying laundry most likely), lots of rules have to do with looks to keep up the value of the other properties. So tidy and charming from the outside shuts a lot of people up. That can mean plant an orchard in the front yard, along with say some roses giving lots of flowers.
Rabbit are your best choice in such an area, not only because they are quiet and don't stink, but they are considered a pet, not livestock. Skipping the whole you can't keep livestock problem, since they aren't livestock, but pets. Do check though if you can sell bunnies for pets from your house (via craigslist or whatever), because that might be labeled commercial activity and again hoa/zoning laws can bite you.

[GardenDevotions]

The reason many people who have aquaponics grow tilapia is that they're less fickle that most other fish. My dad started out with striped bass and lost most of them because they aren't very flexible. Very picky fish. Tilapia, on the other hand, adapt better so they make great "starter" fish for those new to raising them.

[wylantern]

Next time a HOA or someone tries to stop you from doing something, just tell them that you'll use all the money you're saving to buy and set up a radio tower. There's federal regs that give you that right, and no local government is going to go against the FCC.

[crayhack]

Problem with urban living and having meat animals is it's very likely to have animal control called on you for "abuse". People are wild in cities about animal "welfare". There are people who get AC called for training their dogs.

[GypsyBrokenwings]

I shared the heck out of this video, lol! Great info. I lived in HOA's in the past and swore NEVER AGAIN! I don't play well with control freaks. Finding rabbits where I live is hard to do. the CV had everyone panic buying them...and I had planned months before it hit, to get rabbits (sad face). I'm still stuck in my RV, which makes having a chick brooder difficult, but I've done it and built a chicken tractor. This time I didn't even ask the landlord. I have a long list of AG reports to show him where our food security stands if he wants to make a fuss. Funny thing is, today he asked if I wanted rabbit to eat..that he has a .22 and there's lots of wild ones out here, lol!

[karmavalley]

You are currently inspiring soòoo many people. It's so great too see

[Tinyhomedeals]

Just found out can't have chickens in our yard in the towm we live in. But think rabbits are ok because they are considered pets. Thanks for great info. Quail nice. I've eaten pigion when I lived in Germany. I'm watching your course as well.

[beckywilliams]

Before we moved here, the last town we lived in told me, "look, if you would see it at a farm, it's livestock and you can't have it!" So glad we moved!

[howdyyall]

I have never seen a meat rabbit set up i love so much, it's so spacious and clean. They look well taken care of and probably taste great!

[HomesteadingCityStyle]

I have a 12’x8’ area outdoor (lean to) where I raise quail and fish; I have 4 breeder cages, an incubator, brooder and grow box. I also have a 3’x8’x2’high horse trough where I raise fish (aquaponics). In my aquaponics I have channel catfish and bluegill !!!

[polespinosa]

I'd be very wary about eating pigeons free-ranging in an urban area, Urban feral pigeons accumulate very high levels of heavy metals, mainly lead and cadmium.

[khadijahdavis]

This was a great video i share your feelings on the 'department of making you sad' I'm so glad my property is deemed unrestricted and it's zoned for residential, agricultural, and business, so i can do and have pretty much whatever i want on my homestead, right now i have kune kune pigs, chickens, qual, fessants, rabbits, turkeys, all were raising for meat