温哥华的朋友看过来！

zhangyl

Vancouver latest municipality to allow urban chickens

VANCOUVER — Dane Chauvel’s chickens can finally come home to roost.
Now living in exile in Langley, the two birds will soon be legally allowed back in their coop in Chauvel’s Kitsilano backyard after Vancouver city council voted unanimously Thursday to change city bylaws to legalize the keeping of urban hens.
“I think they’re probably dying to come home,” Chauvel said.
He explained that his family had three birds in their Kitsilano backyard for about a decade, despite bylaws forbidding the keeping of chickens in the city.
“They were friendly, innocuous, they really didn’t bother anybody, and they produced eggs,” he said. “My kids at the time were six and eight, or eight and 10. They named the birds and they kind of bridged being pets and livestock.”
But one day, a bylaw officer called and he ended up in court twice, fighting for his birds — two of which he argued weren’t actually chickens at all but some sort of exotic bird breed.
“The first time I lost, the second time I won, but it was just becoming too much of a hassle for my wife,” he said.
So the birds went out to pasture at a Langley farm. One has since died, but Chauvel says he’s eager to bring the other two home.
He’ll have to wait a few months, while city staff amend the city’s bylaws and draft guidelines on how to keep the bids safely and humanely.
With Thursday’s motion, moved by Coun. Andrea Reimer, Vancouver is the latest municipality to jump on the urban chicken bandwagon. New York City, Seattle, Portland, Victoria, Burnaby and Richmond all allow backyard hens in some way or another. Online resources and how-to books abound touting the joys of fresh and sustainable eggs.
But not everyone in B.C. is enthusiastic about the keeping of backyard hens. The BCSPCA and the Vancouver Humane Society both spoke against Thursday’s motion.
“While we sympathize with the interests of local people who want to keep these hens for the sustainability interests, we have concern that not everyone who is interested in keeping these chickens has the necessary knowledge or expertise to raise them humanely,” BCSPCA animal welfare coordinator Geoff Urton told The Vancouver Sun earlier Thursday.
Urton said he’s worried urban chickens could be easy targets for coyotes or raccoons and attract rats. What’s more, he’s not convinced that Vancouverites will be able to find a vet able to care for their birds or even know where to buy the right kind of feed.
BC Poultry Association president Ray Nickel called the motion “ridiculous” and said it flies in the face of food safety concerns.
“What if AI [avian influenza] started to happen with some of the flocks?” he asked, explaining that an urban outbreak could potentially affect export opportunities for his entire industry.
In Victoria, where backyard chickens have long been legal, the feathered fowl have caused some problems, but nothing major and no animal cruelty issues, said Ian Fraser, a senior animal control officer with Victoria Animal Control Service.
“When I get a call about it in Victoria, [usually] the chicken owner has made themselves a really cheap chicken coop,” Fraser said. “It’s usually noise, smell, flies, ‘Chickens are in my yard and they’re scratching up stuff.’”
Fraser said he gets about 12 poultry-related calls a year. But he said there’s no reason urban dwellers can’t successfully keep a few chickens, so long as there are some regulations.
Fraser has a few regulatory tips for the city staff tasked with drafting Vancouver’s guidelines: build a decent chicken coop, keep them in at night, ensure there is adequate yard space, and make sure city folk aren’t trying to sell eggs for profit or, worse, slaughtering their chickens themselves.
Chauvel said he expects the few Vancouverites who will get chickens will care for them exceptionally.
“If you were a chicken you would be imploring the animals rights activists and the city council to approve this bylaw, because it’s the best thing that can happen in terms of chicken welfare,” he said. “Any resident that has two to four chickens, that means two to four chickens less in a battery cage environment.”
crolfsen@vancouversun.com
with a file from Mary Frances Hill and Larry Pynn
© Copyright (c) The Vancouver Sun

zhangyl

加拿大温哥华市议会全票维护养鸡权

经过认真讨论，温哥华市议会日前全票通过，赋予全体温哥华市民养鸡权。要知道，在民主国家加拿大想全票通过什么事情是难度极大的。在我记忆里，上次在加拿大三级议会中发生这样的事，是加拿大国会全票通过授予达赖荣誉公民称号。达赖和鸡交相辉映，照射出加拿大灿烂夺目的民主制度。

　　支持者号召吃绿色蛋号召动物平等人权自由，反对者怕禽流感怕鸡乱跑怕笼养迫害了鸡，为了温哥华市民能否养鸡，有关争论进行了一段时间。一切源于温哥华市一条地方法律：只有住宅或庭院面积有一个足球场那么大的人家，才能家养鸡。不知今年怎么就邪门了，有见义勇为的市民突然发现这条法令有问题，上书的结果是掀起千层浪，从鸡权到人权都整出来了……于是就重新投票。

　　投票的结果是全票通过，允许市民家养鸡。

　　据报道，温哥华市政府强调，温哥华市家养鸡新政策的原则，是基于社区发展、永续资源及食物来源安全去考虑的。凡在家居后园养鸡的市民，必须设置鸡笼，而且每只鸡要有8平方呎面积可以走动。并要求市政府职员开始对此事进行研究，拟定相关的法规细则。

　　瞧瞧，真不是随随便便就允许养的，温哥华养鸡已经提到一定高度了，永续资源——站得高看得远关系到子孙万代的大计啊。

　　既是万年大计，考虑当然要周全，特别是反对派已经指出如许多问题。相关的规定与保护措施一定要跟上，特别要做好防疫，禽流感不是闹着玩儿的。噪音干扰也要预防，不能照顾了养鸡权就破坏了安睡权。捕食家禽的动物增多也是问题，美洲也有黄鼠狼的兄弟，破坏了食物链影响了生态平衡子孙后代怎么安居？市府职员將会制定一系列政策指引，保障公共卫生及安全，并确保鸡不会受到不人道对待——仅限养殖阶段，长熟了是红烧鸡块还是刺生活鸡，不限制，那个是人权。鸡权大还是人权大？这个市议会不用投票也有答案。

　　比市议会还忙的人不是没有，媒体就是忙家之一。加拿大《环球华报》网站今天头条是《温哥华成最适合“鸡类”居住的城市》，文章第一段：“温哥华的无家可归者们如今又有了一个羡慕的对象，那就是鸡。号称执政后首要任务是解决无家可归问题的执政党团队及罗品信市长，却率先解决了鸡的归宿问题，让鸡有家可归，有主可依，这可能是去年底市选时始料不及的。”

　　瞧瞧，华人移居到加拿大，立马就出息。办张报纸，文章水平就跟市议会的辩论词似的。啊不，是温哥华市议会的辩论词明显学习了中文报纸。

zhangyl

有志从事畜牧养殖的朋友，可以说是一条谋生途径。

yzdxj

有志从事畜牧养殖的朋友，可以说是一条谋生途径。
zhangyl 发表于 2009-7-29 21:28

                               
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如果能养猪就跟好了！那东西，块头大，肉多...，来钱快！

妮子

岂不是一到早上到处都能听到鸡打鸣声？那真够热闹啦，哈哈

铜锤爸

如果能养猪就跟好了！那东西，块头大，肉多...，来钱快！
yzdxj 发表于 2009-8-6 20:38

                               
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如果用粮食喂猪要1年才能出栏！

芭芭爸爸

喂鸡比喂猪成本低，周期短，风险小。。。哈哈：）但洋种鸡哪里有中国农村的土鸡味道好啊~~~建议温市引进中国正宗土鸡品种并大力推广。。。。。。不过，突然间想起那部著名的粘土动画《小鸡快跑》来。。。。。。。。

bonjouramis

有意思