![]() The town is one of the last places in southeastern Connecticut without zoning rules that accommodate the rising popularity of backyard poultry, whose supporters say eat ticks and produce eggs and manure for fertilizer. ![]() I never thought that they would be considered poultry." "They kill ticks, they kill bugs, they're good for the environment. Geese, according to the zoning officials, are farm animals. While the town's rules for residential districts like Wilcox's neighborhood don't specifically mention birds, they forbid farming on any property smaller than 120,000 square feet - slightly less than 3 acres. Technically, the birds violate Waterford's zoning regulations. "They kind of grow on you," Wilcox said, watching the birds waddle around the backyard of her quarter-acre property. When one died, they replaced her with a new goose found on Craigslist to keep the surviving bird company.Īnd when her son moved out and Wilcox moved to a smaller house in Waterford last year, the geese - Luna and Emma - went with her. When the couple broke up, her son - and the geese - moved in with Wilcox at her house in Westbrook. The Vivian Street resident said her son purchased the two white Emden geese with a girlfriend years ago they were shipped from California as goslings after he insisted they would make good pets. Waterford - The geese weren't Kristine Wilcox's idea in the first place. Wilcox is fighting a decision by the town zoning board denying her appeal to keep the pets in an outdoor house on her property. Kristine Wilcox holds Emma, as Luna lingers nearby, in her Waterford yard Wednesday, May 9, 2018.
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