It’s finally official – Chickens are now permitted in Vancouver yards!
Two days before the city gave final approval for keeping backyard chickens in Vancouver, a Charles Street resident was ticketed by a bylaw enforcement officer for doing just that. Photo Dan Toulgoet, Vancouver Courier. See Courier story here.
Chickens walk proud and free in Vancouver
June 9, 2010
The Province
Chickens will be coming to Vancouver yards after council passed a bylaw today permitting the fowl in backyards across the city.
A maximum of four hens, which should at least be four months old, are permitted per coop. Other poultry — roosters, ducks, turkeys or pheasants — remain banned, and the hens will not allowed in front yards or highrise apartment balconies.
Under the guidelines, the backyard enclosure must be roofed and cannot exceed nine square metres in area and three metres in height.
As well, $20,000 will be set aside to build a city shelter for abandoned or seized chickens.
Victoria, Surrey and New Westminster already allow chickens in backyards.
The Vancouver City Guidelines for Keeping of Backyard Chickens can be found here.
And just two days before:
City slaps ticket on backyard chicken owner – Citation levied despite pending chicken bylaw
Two days before the city was expected to give final approval for keeping backyard chickens in Vancouver, a Charles Street resident was ticketed by a bylaw enforcement officer for doing just that.
By Sandra Thomas
June 9, 2010
Vancouver Courier
Excerpt:
Ryan Zammit assumed six months ago that since the city was so close to approving backyard chickens, raising a small flock on the property he shares with two roommates would not be a problem. So the roommates were surprised Sunday afternoon when an animal control bylaw enforcement officer showed up and told the men their hens–Fish Sticks, Chicken McNugget and Baija Bell–were in contravention of the city’s bylaw and that she was responding to a complaint from a resident. A month earlier a fourth hen, Darth Chicken, was killed by an off-leash dog. Zammit was particularly surprised because the city was expected to give its final approval of its new chicken bylaw two days later on June 8, after the Courier’s press deadline.
3 comments
Ryan Zammit
I and my wife wish that you beat the lay and we hope you keep your backyard chickens.
Show them that you are a zeppulla.
GO RYAN GO RYAN
If backyard chickens are going to get some traction, there is a need for those that choose to do so to make sure they do it responsibly and according to the bylaws. The chickens in this story were not kept in a pen and were free to wander off the property and on to neighbouring properties. Let’s do it right so there’s no backlash in the future.
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