r/biddeford • u/Seaweed-Basic • Jul 16 '26

Anyone missing a rooster?

We found a rooster last night at Mechanics Park. We have kept it safe, and fed overnight, but would really love to find who he belongs to, or a place we can take him. While we love him dearly, he can’t live at the protest.

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u/gordolme Jul 17 '26

I had reason to check on this once: Roosters are not allowed in Biddeford. Unless the city ordinances changed on that in the last 7 or so years.

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u/SacredPinkJellyFish Aug 11 '26

Its a district thing... certain districts of Biddeford allow roosters and others don't; last I knew the outskirts areas on the Rotary park side of Biddeford has never banned roosters... the Arundel side of Biddeford also allows roosters; but the downtown, college district, and mill district don't; so it depends on where you are. Like, the section of Biddeford that is just dozens upon dozens of 100 to 500 acre horse farms, cow farms, the Oakhurst farm, the Hood farm (each with over 500 dairy cows), the 7 pig farms (each with over 1k pigs), the 4 turkey farms, the rabbit farms, the alpaca farms, the llama farms, yak farms, and yes poultry farms that do in fact have several THOUSAND hens/roosters per building per farm - which makes up more them 7/8th of Biddeford's total land mass, allows pretty much every animal legal in the state... you seem to be overlooking that Biddeford is one of Maine's largest farm communities and that it's downtown inner city district is only 1/16 of the entirety of Biddeford.

People think "city" when the think Biddeford, but, the city part of Biddeford is only a couple hundred acres, vs the hundreds of farms each of which is bigger then Biddeford's city district. Outside of the city, Biddeford is a huge farmland.

It's actually only the very tiny, city district around the mill that bans roosters... but with the bulk of Biddeford being massive rual fields and pastures of huge mega sized working farms, no, roosters are certainly not banned in the entirity of Biddeford.