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    9/9 Well, its been over a month and no letter from the HOA yet. The chickens are spending a fair amount of time in the garage coop I built. From the street you can hear them when they are loud. This is because I used welded wire for the walls. If I wanted to be really stealthy I should have...
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    Chicken out law

    BODOR's friend : I'm glad/sad to be in the company of other illegal chickeners. I had to give my chickens away before when the animal control nazis objected to my rooster. So a year later I ordered six little peeps--payed extra to have hens. Wuddencha know one of em is a he and now I have to...
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    Chicken out law

    Quote: Yes, absolutely. Imagine a legacy farmer, farming for generations, on a nice piece of land, and then some developer builds million dollar homes on the acreage next to his/her farm. According to this wording, the developer can't get rid of the farmer, because the farmer was there...
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    Nervous...Want to make nice with neighbors and weird laws

    Quote: I see below that you already have a coop, but, if you had to do it again, build a chicken tractor. A mobile coop would not be subject to building codes any more than a wheelbarrow would. Quote: Sometimes, things are "grandfathered" and are not subject to current laws. A prime...
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    quiet chickens

    wow thats really useful. thanks for the answers. it seems like black australorps aren't a bad start then. There are some other breeds that are prettier that I would like to have, but, I only intend to have 3 to 5 maximum, so to get a sussex or a bantam will have to wait a year or two. You...
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    a super nest box for a super chicken who lays super poops

    no cedar, might seem to smell nice but bad news for the birds. I used plywood. My wife wanted me to use a plastic container with a hole cut in it, that would have been fine too. Certainly it would have been easier to sanitize.
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    Looks like a good bracket to build a coop

    A few days ago someone said they were having a hard time building their coop so it would be square. I mean, the corners weren't matching up when they put the last panel on. I found these on the internet the other day. My coop is built, but it looks like it could go a long way to making the...
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    quiet chickens

    Quote: Hm. Interesting. Unfortuantely, since they are mixed I guess you can't say who the best/worst are?
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    quiet chickens

    I started with black australorps because a website said they were quiet. And, I'll grant you that, they aren't very chatty. I suspect they are still chatty enough that anyone within a block of my house could hear their long, drawn out "bawwwwwwwk"s in the morning. Of course, this *IS* the...
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    Chicken out law

    Tiramisu, that is seriously something I wish I could do. Unfortunately my deck is only about 12 to 18 inches high, and but its huge - about 20x40. My initial thought was to let the chickens live under there, but I quickly decided it was impossible because they'd probably be laying eggs...
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    Chicken out law

    Quote: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!!! This is the most restrictive thing I have personally heard about!
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    HOA rules

    Quote: +1 to that. Wiser words were seldom said.
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    HOA rules

    Quote: Its going to get worse, according to this article which heavily quotes this article. I mean, from the perspective that lots closer to the city will be unaffordable. Right now, they are somewhat affordable because some areas are not very nice, but later they will be even more...
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    Man, I think I got a rooster

    Thank you SOOO much that really makes me feel better
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    Texas

    I'm in Cypress, TX. Texas is so big that most of you peeps aren't very close...
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