Tnay Li Ping helps sell chickens for a resident who illegally kept chicken in his backyard

suppadmin | March 10, 2021

An enforcement raid of Padawan Municipal council (MPP) turned pleasant when the team with MPP councillor Tnay Li Ping helped a retiree to market off his Japanese Bantam chickens at Jalan Arang.

Cr Tnay with Penghulu Tommy Thian and Kapitan Kuan Ted Chai went to a terrace house at Lorong 12 after several complaints were made by nearby residents of the foul smell of chicken feces coming from the house.

Tnay said the enforcement team had visited the house many times since Christmas last year and advised him to stop rearing dozens of chickens in the backyard as the smell attracted flies and a foul smell.

When the team visited the house, the house owner, Lim was cooperative and also showed them where the chickens were kept. Due to the numerous trips made by the Enforcement team, Lim had tried to keep the area at the back clean but was told he still had to move his chickens away.

At least 25 chickens were kept in separate chicken coops with 10 placed in an unused fish aquarium.

Lim said he has been rearing the ornamental chickens for the past eight years and it was a hobby of his. He said there were no complaints before as he was able to sell them. But due to the pandemic, not many people were willing to buy the chickens thus he was left with many of them.

Tnay reasoned with him that due to the complaints, it is only fair that he sold off his chickens or moved them somewhere. She suggested that she will take videos of the chickens and helped him sell them off to interested parties which Lim agreed. He said a pair of the chicken cost RM250. He said the chickens he had was about a year old. The survival rate for such chicken is eight years. Tnay said footage of the chickens will be placed in her FB with Lim’s contact number and interested can call him personally.

When told that he needed to remove all the chickens within three days, Lim appealed for a longer period. He said he would not be able to sell the chickens on time. When Tnay said he had to do so, he suggested that he move them to his other house in Bau and asked them to give him two weeks.

Tnay said they had a meeting at MPP yesterday and the order was for him to move his chickens out within three days.

After negotiating, they agreed to let him move his chickens out in a week’s time.

The enforcement team also gave a notice to Lim and said they will return in a week’s time and if he failed to move the chickens this time, they will confiscate them.