I agree with Kernel Cluck! Go for it. I live in town ( suburbs ). I have an open view fence with a wash on the other side. I have never had my chickens go over the fence. The go up to it, but never over. They always come back. I was worried about it as well when I first got my girls. But...
If you don't want to kill the squirrels, you can do what my friend does with them. He bought a trap for $25. The kind that they run inside and the door closes. Then once he catches them he gets colored hairspray, like pink or orange, and sprays them and lets them loose in the park for the...
Can you get around the HOA and the city ordinances if your coop is mobile and not in a fixed location? Probably the only restrictions are on fixed coops. We have a regulation that is has to be 80 from the neighbor’s property if they complain. So I am building a mobile coop that I can move to...