A glimpse of your regional headlines Thursday, Sept. 15.
For more about today's featured stories, please click the links below: Backyard Birds Booted Officers to Distribute 'Tip Sheets' South Cobbers Listen Up and Speak Out about Area Improvements at Town Hall Meeting
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Here's what you should know to start Sept. 15 in Northeast Cobb.
1. The high today in Northeast Cobb will be about 81 degrees, the National Weather Service says, and a cold front moving through could produce some rain this morning. We’ll see an increasing breeze through the day with gusts up to 20 mph. The overnight low will be in the upper 50s. 2. One of the hottest topics on Northeast Cobb Patch lately has been the story of the Pond family’s fight to keep chickens in the back yard of a Northeast Cobb home. The Ponds requested a zoning variance from a 1972 ordinance banning livestock on lots smaller than 2 acres. The Board of Zoning Appeals voted 5-0 against that variance Wednesday and gave the family 45 days to get rid of the poultry, the Marietta Daily Journal reports. The Ponds could appeal to …
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The Pond Family wants farm-fresh eggs straight from the source: backyard chickens.
Joseph and Elizabeth Pond want their family to get farm-fresh eggs from backyard chickens, and they've started a legal fight that's ruffling feathers. They don't live on a farm. They live in a Cobb County subdivision. According to Section 134 of the Cobb County ordinance, you need at least two acres to keep chickens on your property. The Pond family yard is smaller, but that's not stopping Joseph Pond's efforts to change the ordinance. He already has the Polish chicken, the Rhode Island Reds and the Black Copper Morans as family pets and providers of fresh eggs. The Ponds' two children, Madeline and Samuel, consider the chickens as pets that provide an important food source: eggs. The code also says the coop must be 100 feet from the …
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Megan
5:19 pm on Saturday, October 6, 2012
I love the idea of having chickens in the backyard. It's the best way to know where your eggs are coming from and how the chickens are treated. Eggs from the store are more than likely coming from chickens who are kept in nesting boxes their entire life and living in filthy conditions. These eggs can carry disease and the chickens themselves are living an awful life. All animals should be treated… more ›