Any advice on raising Urban Chickens?
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Question by ♥Gleek♥: Any advice on raising Urban Chickens?
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Question by ♥Gleek♥: Any advice on raising Urban Chickens?
Can you help? Leave your own answer in the comments!
You should probably put up some tall plants or trees around a designated area, with a good fence that has no openings for them to escape. Let them has a nice area as I described, so they can have some freedom and will be more natural and happy. Depending on temperature where you live, something like a dog house would be suitable. Hope this helps.
Shezrat
October 1, 2011 at 10:53 am
1. is it legal in your area? Do you need a license?
2. Do you have the space?
3. Do you have the buildings and fences necessary to keep them safe and prevent them from annoying the non poultry loving neighbours
4. Can you afford the feed,shelter, water etc.
5. Do you have the Proper way to dispose of the waste, chickens generate ALOT of waste.
6. Make sure your neighbours will be happy to be woken up by roosters at all hours.
7. What do you plan on doing with them, eggs, meat or both?
Until you know the answers to all of these, I would not get chickens.
otter_woman
October 1, 2011 at 11:06 am
don’t have a rooster and make sure of rules and regs of your local area as to housing requirement and setbacks from houses and how many birds but even if allowed don’t have a rooster in an urban area.
Kikuyu
October 1, 2011 at 11:12 am
1.) Check local ordinances (in my mind, any city that allows you to keep a dog, which can be just as loud and smelly as a couple of chickens should allow chickens… but not everyone sees it that way)
2.) Choose a bantam breed- they take less space.
3.) Build the housing before you get the birds
4.) Buy juveniles. With chicks, you don’t know the gender. With older birds, you have no idea how old they are. 6 months is a good age.
5.) Avoid roosters unless you specifically want them (some people like the personality or want to hatch chicks)
6.) Err on the side of getting too few chickens rather than too many.
wcbpolish
October 1, 2011 at 11:26 am