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Here are pictures of my suburban coop. It house's four hens, one Delaware, 2 Black Australorps and 1 EE. The roosting coop is about 3'x3 1/2' and the total enclosed run area is 33 Sqft. Our birds range a minimum of 5 hours in our yard and garden
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Our story started in June of 2010 when I approached the our suburban village about having chickens. We are about 35 miles west of Chicago which allows them. With that said I thought it would be a fairly easy endeavour. It turned out to be a 5 month battle and in the end they came around to my way of thinking. The main hang up was one neighbor who decided to make it very personal and write to the papers etc.. Bashing my family along the way. But persisitance paid off.
The "lovely ladies are 23 weeks old as of October 23rd, 2011. No eggs yet, but have been truly a joy to have. I could sit and watch them for hours just being chickens. I never would have imagined I would get this much satisfaction from having them. The kids really enjoy them as well.
3 of the pullets starting laying around 26-28 weeks. Still waiting on the EE who is now about 34 weeks.