{"id":174,"date":"2025-07-12T05:07:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T14:30:28","slug":"the-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/the-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"The chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/chicken_sign-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/chicken_sign-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/chicken_sign-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/chicken_sign-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/chicken_sign-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We can certainly all agree that Fairhope&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/library.municode.com\/al\/fairhope\/codes\/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COOR_CH5ANFO_S5-6KEDOPOSIMIREZO\">Domestic Poultry Ordinance<\/a> is a great thing. So, imagine my excitement when I found out that there is also a Mobile Bay Area Backyard Chicken Club (<a href=\"https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/groups\/280391715323896\/\">MBABYCC<\/a>), with almost four thousand members. Seeking the club&#8217;s endorsement, I called the founder of the club, Ed Williamson.  Alas, they do not endorse political candidates. We had an enjoyable conversation nonetheless, in which I learned the history of the club, and of the issues most pressing to the club&#8217;s members. While it&#8217;s true that my platform lacks a Rooster plank, I promise to always do what&#8217;s best for the fowl of Fairhope. MBABYCC will have a friend in me on the Council, and I will fight tooth and nail to defend our poultry ordinance from any threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(full disclosure) There are no chickens in our backyard, which I suppose does make me a backyard chicken wannabe. When we moved back to this house a few years ago, a proposal to build a backyard chicken coop was put before the family for a vote. I voted yes, the dog and cat voted <em>enthusiastically<\/em> yes, but sadly our side lost 3 to 1. (We use a weighted voting system in our family).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Comments-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise to always do what&#8217;s best for the fowl of Fairhope&#8230; and I will fight tooth and nail to defend our poultry ordinance from any threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}