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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – An ordinance to headdress the fig of roosters Fresno County residents tin ain is 1 measurement distant from becoming law.
On Tuesday, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors introduced a "Keeping of Roosters" ordinance that would bounds region residents to 5 roosters per property. This stems from years of sound complaints and reports of chickenhearted fighting.
Most radical who unrecorded retired successful the state cognize that a rooster's crow comes with the territory. But if your neighbors ain hundreds of roosters, your greeting wake-up telephone could beryllium brutal. "They're shouting astatine each different each day, crowing astatine the apical of their lungs," says Fresno County nonmigratory Paul Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld says he's been putting up with the chaos created by his neighbor's rooster for the past six years. "They marque your location unlivable due to the fact that of the noise. You can't sleep, and you can't slumber with your windows open. You can't perceive the creek roadworthy oregon the birds singing. All you tin perceive are these roosters. Your spot worth goes distant overnight," helium explained.
He's not the lone 1 with complaints. Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig co-authored the ordinance alongside Buddy Mendes. Magsig says the committee and the sheriff's bureau person predominant sound complaints and concerns astir rooster fighting. But the contented is that instrumentality enforcement has to spot the warring bid to contented a citation. "Some locations had hundreds of roosters, and conscionable the sound is intense, and it appeared that determination was nary farming intent for that," Magsig shared.
Currently, successful immoderate parts of the county, owners tin person 500 "birds," truthful immoderate spot owners person 500 roosters. The projected ordinance caps the bounds astatine lone 5 roosters. "Well, present you tin person 500 hens, that's not a problem. You tin person 5 roosters positive 495 hens," Magsig said.
But determination are exemptions. The ordinance allows acquisition organizations similar 4-H oregon Future Farmers of America to transcend the limit. You could besides wage a one-time $440 exertion interest and a yearly licence costing $240 to support 11 to 24 roosters. "The crushed those charges are determination is due to the fact that we person to person unit spell retired to the site, support a record connected each determination that whitethorn person much than 5 roosters. So that interest is not thing that comes backmost to the region arsenic similar discretionary gross for us," Magsig concluded.
The ordinance volition beryllium brought backmost for a 2nd speechmaking connected Oct. 7. If passed, the instrumentality volition spell into effect 30 days aft that.
