| # | Full Name | Comments |
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| 401 | Anonymous | I think allowing people to have a small number of chickens for their own us would be a great step forward. It would take us all closer to where food comes from and would allow people to use their gardens for local, pesticide free, carbon foodprint free food. |
| 402 | John Chew | Thanks for taking the initiative on this, I've wanted to keep a chicken to reduce the carbon cost of my eggs for years, but wasn't brave enough to do what you have. |
| 403 | Anonymous | |
| 404 | Alex Bilsland | I think this is a really good idea and I support it. |
| 405 | Jeff Van Harmelen | |
| 406 | Emily Fisher | I've always loved chickens, and would like to have the option of owning some in my back yard as soon as my living situation allows for it. |
| 407 | Jennifer Durst | |
| 408 | Mario Fiorucci | |
| 409 | laura gravelle | |
| 410 | Evelyn | |
| 411 | Anonymous | |
| 412 | Anonymous | My nephews who live in Toronto ought to have the right to raise chickens in their backyards if they want to. |
| 413 | Lorraine Campbell | |
| 414 | Jennifer Kowalski | |
| 415 | Robert Poyner | |
| 416 | Jeremy Craigs | I think that at a minimum the city should investigate the potential and determine a practical way of implementing this idea since it has any number of environmental and social benefits. |
| 417 | Milena Vlajic | This is an excellent initiative; Toronto City Council, please listen to this. |
| 418 | Kristen Chew | I would keep a chicken if allowed; maybe two. |
| 419 | Jeff Stevenson | I live in a 1000 square foot bungalow with a 5000 square foot backyard in Long Branch. I collect my rooftop rainwater for watering the lawn. I'd keep chickens if it was legal or I could get a permit. This will lower carbon footprint also. |
| 420 | Mallory | urban farming is one small way in which we can help make our cities sustainable in the long run |
| 421 | SJ Grieve | |
| 422 | Caroline Chan | So excited about this development! I would keep chickens in a heartbeat if we were allowed in Toronto! |
| 423 | Mark Sherman | This is an important step for Toronto's local food movement. |
| 424 | Peter Shepherd | |
| 425 | Anonymous | |
| 426 | Jason Martin | |
| 427 | Sadie Lewis | |
| 428 | ANITA ORLOWSKI | |
| 429 | Anonymous | I approve. |
| 430 | lei | |
| 431 | Heather Posgate | |
| 432 | Monika Battistone | I am in agreement that raising chickens would be most beneficial. |
| 433 | Anonymous | |
| 434 | Monika Orlowski | We are currently living in Hamilton but feel that we need to support this important change in the chicken laws for Toronto, in the anticipation of a wave of change spiling over to other surrounding cities. These outdated regulations have no real justification. We keep 2 pet hens inside our home in a 4ft aquarium on pine shavings much as anyone would keep a pet rabbit or guinny pig. From experience we can honestly state that chickens do not stink if kept in a clean maintained environment. We simply change their shavings once a week. Any visitors to our home are not even aware that we have them. That is more than can be said about peoples' cat litter boxes!
The hens provide 1 delicious egg each per day. They make a sound for the few minutes leading up to the egg laying, then we enjoy the soft cooing and purring sounds as they settle down to sleep when the lights go out! They make wonderful pets for children as they enjoy being carried around the house perched on your arm like a parrot. Chickens are intelligent, friendly, and very interesting pets. Although spoiled pets will eat their own eggs as punishment to you for not bringing them breakfast on time :) |
| 435 | abbey huggan | |
| 436 | Ken Lalonde | |
| 437 | kia iverson | |
| 438 | Tara Longo | |
| 439 | Josh Sager | |
| 440 | Anonymous | |
| 441 | Geoff Tomlinson | |
| 442 | Anonymous | |
| 443 | Anonymous | |
| 444 | Kahy Mortimer | I support Toronto Chicken in the effort to make small-scale chicken husbandry legal in the city of Toronto |
| 445 | Arthur Johjnson | |
| 446 | Karen Sabourin | My neighbours dog makes more noise than 1000 chickens would. I've worked on large hen laying operations. Placing restrictions on numbers of hens and sex would eliminate any noise problems. As for issues of cleanliness its no different than cleaning up after any other pet. My compost can become a rat haven if I don't maintain it and these are sold by the city. |
| 447 | Jim Clifford | |
| 448 | Olivia Brown | |
| 449 | Julianna Choi | |
| 450 | James Graham | |