Activism Alert!

Please consider emailing the Merrimack City Council or attending the meeting. Here's what I told them:

1. There are already avenues to handle noise violations.

2. The ability to provide food for yourself is a fundamental human need. Chickens are one of the easiest ways to fulfill that need. Being able to grab a couple dozen eggs from an egg stand, pop them in an incubator for 21 days, then raising them until they are old enough to be butchered, is an affordable and healthy way to put food on the table.

3. By restricting roosters, you restrict the ability to regrow a flock when birds are depleted due to either humans or predators eating them.

4. I have worked in the food industry across many channels. Our supply chain is very fragile. Encouraging our neighbors to have chickens is an important way to strengthen local food networks. Producing more food locally is a goal of the Free State Food Network and the New Hampshire Food Alliance. Anything that places restrictions on animal husbandry works against these goals.