Not in the Pacific Northwest where I live. Having chickens brings a lot of rats and mice around.

No, our canadian winters are too cold and I don't want the chicken in the house !!!!

No! We also have very cold winters in Ohio and I'm not into farm animals!

yes!!!

No. Chickens are gross.

I don't know i have met some very nice chickens in my time. I do know a lot of gross people though?!

I used to live in the Santa Cruz, ca area. We were far eough out of town that I had 3 dozen (at least) chicken plus, ducks, geese, and a pair of Chinese golden pheasants. I miss them terribly. We are currently living in a small town, which I hate, not the town, just the living in part. Anyway, we're thinking about getting a few for the eggs for our homemade pasta which we make at least 2x week. @tatts-chickens are not!. gross. It also gets cold here, just have to make the house well insulated.

Yes, I want a couple. I'd love a couple ducks too. I live on the southern east coast. It's a nice climate most of the year and they seem to like it here. @ tooky I never thought about pheasants.

I'm pretty sure there are chickens in colder climates too. I lived in Denver for many years. There were chicken farms there. It got cold enough to freeze your parts off. I never saw my neighbors with chickens in their houses.

I would if my town permitted it!

yes, well with a name like koop.. we kinda expected it, if you had said pigs, that would have been from left field. tehehe

but yes, my small towns have all been the same, huge farms just outside, but we are a town, we don't do that anymore, no chickens no horses, no bees?

Yes we raise our own chickens.....

Been there. Done that. So I answered "Yes". Would I do it again? No. Lots of flies and you have to be very good at keeping the coop clean, the water fresh and PLENTY of feed. You need to purchase hay or straw all the time. You need to be able to access the right feed (hard to do in the middle of a city) as well as provide pebbles and calcium (in the form of crushed oyster shells). At the end of the day, my 1.5 dozen eggs/week consumption = cheaper than keeping chickens.

Although I do miss the taste and colour of their eggs. But not enough to keep 3-4 of them.

thank you very important info. so now i need to figure out how the friend in nc did. she did not have a problem. it was was on a quartz mountain, so bits of rock often shone through the clay, and a little river ran around the chicken coop, which was dry as a bone. see any clues in this?

rollinggirl their names were Malcolm and Mrs Malcolm. One day he got a little too amorous and we had to take care of her. He remained a bachelor for his remaining years. I hunt and one year I decided to raise turkeys for thanksgiving. I got 6 & started them in the house, they were so cute and so fun. Well, we fell n love. I sold 2 , gave the mil one, cooked one, never ate a bite. When we moved the landlords asked us to leave henry & Maude. We were told turkeys are stupid, not true. They were bronze.

Whose wanting to raise back yard chickens?

i will grant that i do not know tame turkeys, but i spent several years watching wild, and i would not say that at all. Wasn't it ben franklin that wanted to make it the national bird?

I have a dozen at the moment. They're not hard to take care of.

well as said did not do much, but on vacation the owner seemed to really trust me, she was always leaving and having my young son and i do things. everyday, we would reach in certain bins and bags sprinkle out that food and then collect the eggs, did not seem hard. nor did it smell. of course i imagine there is a difference between that hillside and my grassy back yard, but i imagine i would not need more than 4-5 to feed us and have a few to sell?

Whose wanting chickens ?? We love them!!

We do on our farm in a remote area and we use to in our other home, but for a few years it has been banned to have chickens in homes close to city or in city ever since the birdflu issue. It is very important to always keep their living area clean on a daily basis and the ground too. It needs a lot of work thus, now only have them on farm where it is spacious for them.

Mom of 5. We love ours!
They are handy!! And what we do is feed me h m food craps such as chicken fat off of store bought chicken or anything except for beans and potato skins off of potatoes!!!
Let me know if you need any questions answered and I can help!!

We feed them.

What we do mom of 5 we put it just we now in the chicken coop because it helps the smell!
Do you bee any questions answered?

Mow not now

Did you figure out?

No. There are already too many backyard chicken farmers in my neighborhood.

I like chickens, but unless they are on the back of my property where I cannot SMELL them when it rains (only 3-5!) I'm NOT having any!

I understand about smell!!!! We had chicks in garage never will again

And if anybody has chickens and it smells gross in pen you might check for a dead snake in netting. We had one and we got it out and they didn't stink very bad. Let me know if y'all need advice!!!

FYI just found out that one are chickens are dead by a possum so if you have want chicken watch out!!!

it seems idiotic to me that neighbors get to dictate something as non-impactful as a homeowner raising chickens in their own backyard. Personally, i have a pet chicken, plus about 100 other free range chickens. (and 140 sheep and two doz cows and 3horses and a mule. and three llamas and six dogs and one cat) Chickens give us organic, humanely raised food for our table.

Do y'all put up your chickens at night?

i believe that since i am in the chicken belt, i live around the corner from one of the major chicken producers. We have Allen's Perdue and mountainaire all in DE. I guess that is why the small towns refuse to allow chickens? but it is true all over both sides, md and de. I do not wish to slaughter mine. my thought has always been to produce eggs for protein when older.

I have chickens in town. I keep about ten. My neighbors bring their table scraps over so we let them collect twice a week. we get enough for my wife and I and my in-laws. We compost the bedding and our garden is fabulous. The best part of the chickens is when parents bring their young kids to collect eggs and see the food cycle. It is a great neighborhood attraction.

Don't give them potato scrapes they are poisoness to chickens

our flock, (over 100 free range mutt chickens) are completely free 24/7

Do you have any animals come around? Eight pond farm?

We had 3 chickens (Betsy, Lacy & Bean) for 5 years on a 1/8th acre lot on a busy street in a n historic village. The chickens did free range for a period each day, and most neighbors enjoyed them. (they were even on Facebook) The eggs were very good as well. However, taking care of the chickens made it difficult to get away, and we found it easier to take care of chickens ourselves than to get our children to follow through. This winter, the chickens were "retired" to a buffalo farm with 30 other chickens. We enjoyed them, and we are not getting any more.

Yes Minjeeah, our animals are all very friendly! the chickens come to our door every day. They peek into our kitchen and living room windows too. We also have our yard grazed by the sheep and also by the horses. And that allows them to come right to our door also.

We live very closely with all our animals...and we probably have about 250 animals...roughly.

Eight pond farm how old are they?

Which "they" Minjeeah? we have appx 300 animals...their ages are a wide range of time. (if you mean chickens, the oldest are 8 or 9 years, the youngest about two weeks old) Go to my Houzz profile and click0n the ideabook entitled: animals of Eight Pond Farm. (http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/19419453/thumbs/animals-of-eight-pond-farm)

Any eight pond farm

Eight pond farm do you have any dogs?
How many eggs do you get a day?

Six dogs. we get about two dozen eggs per day now that it's so hot-hot-HOT!... in Spring we get about 5 dozen eggs per day.

We have 12 hens and they lay pretty well

Eight pond we also have 1 cat 1 dog she's a schnauzer ( the dog) and 1 rabbit!
We had 3 rabbits and they got another home!
So do you name all your animals?
We don't name the chickens because it's hard to name them all.....
When we had the 3 rabbits we named them from a book. Friz and I forgot the other ones name but they died because we think they got wasp stung or something.
But we still have 1 rabbit and her name is Hoshi

So did someone decide to get chickens?