Thread: Measure would limit roosters in Riverside CA

Surprise! The roosters were used for illegal cock fighting. Hmmm.. Let me think what culture condones this? Can someone please check a map and see if I am still in the USA? BTW The measure passed overwhelmingly.


Measure would limit roosters in parts of Riverside

By: Associated Press

RIVERSIDE -- Rooster owners in this Southern California city may be about to get their feathers ruffled.

Measure A on Tuesday's ballot seeks to muffle incessant cock-a-doodle-dooing and curb cockfighting by limiting the number of roosters residents can own in rural areas.

"It just goes from about 3 o'clock in the morning to 8 or 9 o'clock at night," said Lee Scheffers, who said his neighbors had up to 200 roosters at one time. "There's just a lot of crowing going on. Every one is more macho than the other one."

After he complained to the City Council, code enforcement officers took action -- but not until Scheffers had lost a lot of sleep.

The current law allows 50 birds, but the measure would only allow seven and require the birds be confined to an "acoustical structure" at least 100 feet from neighbors from sunrise to sunset.

If the measure passes, those with too many roosters would have to trim their flocks.

Riverside County has strict laws limiting rooster ownership, which had driven illegal cock-fighting operations into the city, particularly in rural areas of citrus groves, nurseries and ranches where local law mandates no more than one house per five-acre lot.

"It's a real quality of life issue, but it's also an animal cruelty issue," said Councilman Chris Mac Arthur, who said the measure is also aimed at stopping cockfighting.

Mac Arthur, a Riverside native, said he favors the measure although it won't have a direct impact on him. The measure needs a simple majority to pass.

"I've lived in this area most of my life, but I do not have any crowing fowl -- or any fowl to speak of," he said.

http://www.northcountytimes.com/article ... 2_4_08.txt

Up next.......illegals say children are starving because of the "no rooster" law!!

I think it was the roosters that traumatized me the most when I was living in San Diego. I lived in the CITY, not out in the country. But the illegal aliens kept chickens (mostly to eat...I don't think there was any fighting going on). And those roosters crowed all day and all night long.

It was otherworldy. I mean, here I was in a residential neighborhood in the city, with modern grocery stores and movie theaters just down the street, yet there were roosters crowing all around me, and occasionally strolling down the street.

I'd see Mexican women sitting on their porches with their children running on the lawn in diapers chasing the chickens. I would just stand and stare, wondering if I was hallucinating.