I went back to City Council yesterday for round two of the Snowflakes. The good news is I think I nailed my second chicken speech, and the city is going to research and discuss the issue at a future meeting. The bad news is that the future meeting probably won’t be for a few months, and the city is enforcing the ordinance NOW, so the Snowflakes have to go! BOOOOO! HISSSSSS! Fortunately, I’ve had a Plan B has been in place for a while, so the Snowflakes will go to a new home that is pro-chicken. Depending on how things go in the future, maybe the Snowflakes will be back, but in the meantime, the Snowflakes will be flying the coop.
Here’s my speech from yesterday’s meeting:
Honorable Mayor and Coronado City Council,
Since I spoke at the last City Council meeting two weeks ago, my chickens, the Snowflakes, have been flying high with all the publicity. My speech went viral but not in the avian flu kind of way. It’s been a very positive response all around, which was eggs-actly what I was hoping for! My blog, 3000Tomatoes.com (that was a shameless plug!) has gathered quite a flock of followers. A Coronado High School English teacher had her freshman and junior classes read my speech, so I had commentary from a couple of hundred students. And it was featured in the Union-Tribune. Mr. Mayor, just for the record, columnist Tom Blair threw down that chicken gauntlet, not me!
On a Sunday morning ten days ago, two Coronado police officers showed up in my front yard, saying they were following up on a report of chickens on the property. I thought my friend, a local Police Sargeant, was playing a yolk on me, but when I realized the officers were serious, you could have knocked me over with a feather. It turns out Chicken Little squawked again. Chicken Little needs to realize that the sky is NOT falling, it’s just coastal morning fog. It’s gonna burn off.
Other than puffing out their feathers a little with all this attention, my Snowflakes are just doing what they do best; eating, laying eggs, scratching for food, and making a mess. Every day, I clean up their cock-a-doodle doo, throw in a bunch of chicken feed, and give them fresh water. As of today, the total egg count from the Snowflakes since they laid their first egg on December 31, 2010, is 464.
I would like to continue to be the hen mother of my little coop troop because I prefer quiche over chicken pot pie. Hens, I request that the Coronado City Council change the current ordinance, allowing a few chickens, NOT ROOSTERS, and defining acceptable chicken coop parameters.
I will continue advocating for my Snowflakes, sunny side up, but hopefully, you’ll get cracking on this issue because I’m running out of punny material. Thank you very much!
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