The document discusses concerns and considerations for allowing backyard chickens in Lakewood, Ohio. It addresses topics like chickens as pets or for eggs, their diet and waste output, potential health issues, how they are flock animals and prefer not to be alone, that roosters are not necessary if only keeping hens, how other cities have addressed the issue of backyard chickens, and provides population statistics for comparable cities that do allow backyard chickens.

1. Responsible Hen Raising
in Lakewood
Public Information Meeting about

2. Agenda

3. Hens as Pets

4. Hens for Eggs

5. Egg Nutrition

6. What hens eat.

7. What hens poo

8. Chickens Build Community

9. CONCERNS

10. Noise

11. ODOR
Four chickens have the
same output as a medium-
sized dog.
Chicken poo (if cleaned
regularly) is less stinky
than dog or cat poo.

12. Diseases
Avian Flu Salmonella

13. Property Values

14. Cold-hardy breeds
Plymouth Rock
Cochins
Wyandotte

15. Chickens are
Flock Animals
A single chicken will get
lonely.

16. ROOSTERS
• Roosters like
to crow
• Hens do not
need roosters

17. Complaints?

18. Why Backyard Chickens?

19. CAFO

20. Unnatural Husbandry

21. What have cities done?

22. Outlaw chickens

23. Not say anything about
chickens

24. Allow Chickens
COMPARABLE POPULATION SQUARE MILES DENSITY
CITY 2010 CENSUS
LAKEWOOD, 52,131 5.5 9.957.3
OH
ROSEMEAD, CA 53764 5.162 10,387
LAKEWOOD, CA 80,048 9.415 8,456.4
ALBANY, CA 18,539 1.788 10,368
SOMERVILLE, 75,754 4.1 18,147.6
MA

25. REGULATE