Friday, August 19, 2011
Some of "Chicken Man" Andrew Wordes' chickens mysteriously died last month, but toxicology report shows foul play was likely not involved.
The toxicology report on Andrew Wordes' dead chickens has come back from the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicine and it doesn't appear to show they were poisoned, as some initially believed. Wordes was devastated when he lost between 45 to 50 of his chickens and turkeys over the July 4 weekend. At the time, he told Roswell Patch he believed that someone had trespassed on his property to poison them while he was out of town. But lab results recently released showed that the amount of lead in the birds livers was below the toxic range. And no toxic organic compound which is was present either, however the report does seem to indicate that not every toxic organic compound may show up in the tests. According to the report, …
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Andrew Wordes was taken into custody today for violating his probation.
Andrew Wordes, Roswell's "Chicken Man," was jailed until November this afternoon after appearing before Judge Maurice Hilliard at the Roswell Municipal Court to answer charges for violating his probation. The probation stemmed from two separate cases involving illegal grading on Wordes property during 2009 and his violation of a city ordinance that maintains how many inoperable vehicles residents are allowed to keep, according to Assistant City Attorney Bob Hulsey, who was not in court today. Wordes - who is known for raising chickens at his Roswell home - was sentenced to pay $1,000 for each violation, in lieu of up to one year of jail time, but the sentence was commuted to 180 hours of community service, which had not been completed by…
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Andrew Wordes lost most of his chickens this past weekend to what he believes was poisoning by a trespasser.
UPDATE: July 7 10:50 a.m. It wasn't a very happy holiday weekend for Andrew Wordes, who returned home from a short trip to find nearly all of his chickens dead or dying. According to Wordes, the deaths of his controversial chickens isn't an accident. He believes 45 of about 50 chickens were killed, possibly with poision, by "someone with a grudge." The blow is direct hit, but it's just one of many in the years he's spent fighting the city for his right to raise and keep chickens on his property just off Alpharetta Highway, he says. On Tuesday, July 5, Roswell PD spokesperson James McGee said the incident was not reported to the Roswell Police Department. "I understand there was an e-mail sent out but no call to the police," he had said, …
Abbey Buff Goose Harris
1:50 pm on Thursday, December 22, 2011
Do you any of you who know Andrew personaly realy think he would poison his birds? I mean realy, he would starve himself first. more ›