Regarding the Wednesday editorial on egg industry safety, “Problem bigger than cages”: To all those Marysvilleites that are keeping chickens in your back yard, (Wednesday article, “New Marysville code sets limit of six chickens,”) don’t get too excited about increasing the size of your “herd.” Looks like the government is going to give you the opportunity of making your chicks a little more comfy.
New hen house designs may become available soon compliments of our hand selected employee’s in Washington D.C. Only problem … they might be a touch expensive. After an EPA Architectural design, created by the new Department of Henhouse Design headquartered in Las Vegas, insuring mandated width, depth and height of each chicks living space is approved (18 months), ground water will have to be inspected on a regular basis to make sure your not dumping salmonella into the aquifer that feeds the city’s drinking water system. But wait: if you’re near a stream, you get to deal with the shoreline management people.
Maybe those employees who we hired to shovel manure in Little, WA should be spending their time and our money on a committee that could determine a way to mix chicken manure and coal dust (soon to be falling off the coal trains rumbling through your town) into a compound that could be used to fill the pot holes in all of our streets.
We get the employees we hire, we get the government we elect, we get the government we deserve. Vote intelligently. They’re spending your egg money.
Tony Ryan
Edmonds
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