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Blue_In_AK

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8. This is sad.

Reply to amborin (Original post)

Wed May 4, 2016, 05:15 PM

May 2016

Here they're expanding the backyard farms. As of 2011 people in Anchorage can have chickens, goats, whatever, as long as there are no roosters (too noisy) and as long as their lot is above a certain size. Our local news has been running stories the past week about people and their farm animals.

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Michigan Residents Lose their "Right to Farm" [View all] amborin May 2016 OP

Michigan is a republican state WhiteTara May 2016 #1

This is from the "limited gummint" crowd. Warren Stupidity May 2016 #2

Yes, that is sad, but it is old news. This article was from 2014. corkhead May 2016 #3

clicked on it wondering mopinko May 2016 #4

Just the opposite of what many places are doing greymouse May 2016 #5

Damned glad me and my family do not live in MI. Most of us jwirr May 2016 #6

and WI for other reasons glinda May 2016 #7

This is sad. Blue_In_AK May 2016 #8

I'd love to have a few chickens TexasMommaWithAHat May 2016 #9

Get your chickens .. Phil1934 May 2016 #10

LOL TexasMommaWithAHat May 2016 #13

2014, you say ... Jopin Klobe May 2016 #11

The brave new (corporate totalitarian) world continues to develop apace. bjo59 May 2016 #12