Luvu, I used the internet quite often. Cities choose their own regulations about chickens. Hopefully your city or township has a website that lists ordinances like ours did. Our city mostly had restrictions on the number of chickens I could have and where I could place the coop.
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I built my coop this summer and used BYC whenever I had questions. I officially joined BYC just a few days ago thinking it would be good to connect with other back yard chicken enthusiasts.
My coop is probably overbuilt because I wanted it to be able to be repurposed in case we ever decide...