- May 18, 2025
Dear Editor:
I have an idea. Instead of the residential backyard chicken coop "pilot study" proposed by the Palm Coast City Council, all five City Council members should build chicken coops in their own backyards and after around a year, render their opinions.
And make sure, during hurricane season they are prepared to shelter them inside their own home or else the poor chickens and their coop may end up in Georgia. And they should get honest feedback from their neighbors including their tolerance for chicken droppings odor and also do a headcount of the rodents that the coop attracts, the number of chicken-loving predators that show up, along with the number of flies, roaches, ants, lice and fleas.
And per the CDC, they should make sure children under 5, who are more susceptible to the various diseases chickens carry, stay away. They could further toss in a cost/benefit analysis including the price and effort to build a decent coop, the ongoing cost of chicken feed and nesting material, the time spent regularly cleaning the cage, and the number of eggs four chickens actually produce.
The backyard chicken dwelling idea is so farcical, for so many reasons, I'm actually a bit embarrassed to write about it.
Len Korman
Palm Coast
