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Look at the post just before yours -- BookwormNC found the chicken rules for Wilbraham, MA. It looks like you can keep chickens... the number allowed increases with the size of the lot, but on a lot smaller than 15,000' you can have 6 chickens and a minimum of 3 (a good rule, since chickens are...

Sounds like your community is chicken-friendly. It's safe to say that if you keep your flock clean and well cared for, and keep the noise down, you won't have any trouble. The problems arise when neighbors complain. That's where the mediation comes in -- the town would rather that the affected...

Let us know if you do have an animal control officer and if he or she gives you the information. The town health-and-sanitation department might also be able to tell you (though I try to avoid talking to health department people lest it put new ideas in their head if there aren't any existing...

Here in Ma., the animal control officer or "dog" officer in each town and city has to keep what's referred to as a barn book. It's a census of all the livestock and poultry being kept in that municipality. The officer must make an annual tallly and visit each site where these animals are kept...