Would you care if your neighbor decided to keep a few chickens?

RadishRose said:
On a hot day, you can make chicken soup.

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Lol, I almost drowned in my coffee! :coffee: :ROFLMAO: :coffee::ROFLMAO: :coffee: :ROFLMAO:
 

Bella said:
My neighbor two doors over had chickens. They let them roam free. They roamed all over my property and dug around in my compost pile and herb garden. There were five of them, all different colors. I named them Fricassee, Coq au Vin, Adobo, Jerk, and Marsala. My husband would gently shoo them away, "C'mon, sweeties, time to go home." My approach was somewhat different, "Hey! WTF do you think you're doing? " "Get the f*ck outta there or I'll throw you in a pot!" 🙂

One morning, we were having a new water softener installed. The guys were working in the basement when we heard screams. My husband went downstairs to see what was up, and the guys said there was a chicken in the window well. We went outside to check the window well, and to our surprise, we found a big nest with dozens of eggs! We checked another window as well and, sure enough, found another nest full of eggs. Evidently, unbeknownst to us, Marsala was looking for a private, quiet place to lay her eggs every morning. When I showed the nests to my next-door neighbor, she said, "I'd see the chicken walking over to your place every morning and wonder where she was going."🐔🤔

After that, whoever was up first in the morning would check to see if there was an egg. "Did ya check?" LOL! Sometimes Marsala would be in there trying to lay an egg. She'd be all fluffed up and hunkered down, but occasionally her neck would be stretched straight up like she was having trouble getting it out.

Then, the chickens started to disappear, one by one, until only Marsala was left. Then we didn't see her anymore. After a few weeks, we saw a bunch of "new" white chickens roaming all over our property. One morning, I looked out an upstairs window to discover a mass of white feathers and a pile of chicken remains in my neighbor's backyard. I was horrified. Evidently, a predator had wiped out the lot of them!

I did some research on chicken keeping and discovered that the people who kept the chickens had no idea what they were doing. They had an open-topped chain-link enclosure on top of a gravel driveway at the back of their property, and that's where they were housing the chickens. That's no way to care for chickens! They need a coop (house), preferably one that's up off the ground, heat lamps, and to be protected from predators. After the last bunch was massacred, they didn't get any more chickens. Thank God. Idiots.

I like chickens and don't have an objection to neighbors keeping them if they do so properly.





Bella✌️
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Our daughter has a variation on the second coop above and they have their own outside area protected by a wire fence. They have their own grassy area to forage in as well. The silkies seem very happy with their housing situation.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
There was a minor to do in my neighborhood. All the lots have to be 1 acre or larger in my area. One of my neighbors decided to keep a few chickens, and built a coop, and a small fenced in pen. He did not get a rooster, so as to not upset the neighbors at 5:30 AM. Well, this caused a huge to do. The question of his chickens went before the town council, and he had to get rid of his chickens. I don't know anything about chickens, but I didn't think his keeping a few for eggs was a big deal. Would you care if your neighbor decided to keep a few chickens?
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We live in an HOA community where even having a bird feeder is not allowed. That's cuz they attract ducks which mess up our swimming pool. Chickens? c'est impossible!
 
Della said:
Now there's something I wouldn't want in the neighborhood. We have coyotes around here. I always fear they're preparing a bun with mustard for my dachshund.
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That was more than 30 years ago. The house with chickens is gone, replaced by two new ones and no chickens. The wolf dogs are also long since gone. Coyotes are a different story. Them we've got. There is nothing more awesome and bone chilling than a pack howling at 3am.
 
Nathan said:
The rooster protects the hens, that's his job. The morning 'crowing' doesn't bother me, rather hear that than barking dogs.

I don't know what the future holds, but I would never never willingly live within an HOA, or other accommodation with a restrictive, freedom robbing enviornment.
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One old Bantam or Game hen does the same job with less noise and bullying.
 
Chickens in the next condo of my hi-rise? That would be highly unusual, to put it mildly. Plus probably not allowed, as they even limit the number of dogs and cats a resident may have, and the size of dogs is also limited. So, to answer the original question, I wouldn't "care," as it never would happen.
 
Raised a flock of chicks to maturity on my little gentleman's farm. Gathered the eggs, cleaned up their mess constantly & vowed to never go that route again after butchering 50 over 10 days. But on the other hand I wouldn't hesitate to raising a few breeding rabbits. Easier, quieter & safer for air quality. A buck & 2 does produce more meat than a steer will in a year. Paul Harvey tried to convince Americans 40-50 years ago.

https://www.therusticelk.com/11-reasons-you-need-to-raise-backyard-meat-rabbits/
 
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Two of my neighbours and a few other people in the village own chickens. I don't mind, and sometimes we get free eggs. Mark, who lives opposite us, has true 'free range' chickens. They just roam round the village and occasionally I chase them out of my garden. In summer, the rooster starts crowing at 3 a.m. - OK if the windows are closed. If the rooster doesn't wake us, Mark heads off in his tractor pretty early too.
All part of living in the country. I once found a cow wandering up my drive one day. That was a surprise.
 
Sister has chickens, they lay eggs and they are eaten but they are mainly pets.
They have a beautiful home at 805 1/2 Fowlcaltraz Street. Complete with in house heat, fans and misters. They eat a diet of fruit and vegetables provided by their Mom. They are allowed to free range when Mom is basking on the patio reading or surfing the net. She also has two large dogs that don't even look twice at those chickens. I don't know how she does it. My three dogs would be barking "Buffet" and yes, I am jealous!!
 
I used to have chickens and a rooster growing up when I was about 9 or 10 and the eggs were delicious. The little chicks were cute too. Anyway, being the utterly weird child that I was, when the rooster died I took one of his feet into school and did a show and tell on Nature Day, passing round this scaly dismembered claw among all the other kids. The boys thought it was cool, the girls, not so much 🤔
 
"Free-range" chickens are fairly common in my area, although they sometimes range too far, and wind up dead on the road. I personally wouldn't mind well-maintained chickens in a pen, but my cats would consider their presence a challenge to be accepted...

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We have a couple neighbors who keep chickens. Nobody seems to mind. The zoning laws say chickens are okay but not roosters, but sometimes people try to keep roosters anyway. It doesn't take long for the complaints to roll in and the roosters are gone.

Back when we lived out in the country we used to have chickens and one rooster. That rooster was very protective of his ladies! One time the chickens got out of their pen somehow and plucked up all the beans the garden that were just about 1 inch tall. Just plucked them up and left them laying there. My husband was so mad, and had to replant every one of those bean plants.

Chicken manure is good for fertilizer but only after it's been composted for about 6 months. It's really high in nitrogen which burns out the plants.

Our rooster crowed in the morning and several times during the day.
 
I'm 50/50. Chickens eat ticks and all kinds of pests. However I would only want them to have hens no roosters because of the noise factor. Also chicken coops do attract rats and mice.
 
My neighbor has chickens. I'm ok with the chickens, but we would be deliriously happy if she would leave. I get along pretty well with almost everyone, but she is a real world class beaoch. Get fresh eggs down the road a piece, and love them.
 

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