Any of you live in a subdivision?

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I live in the South and in a subdivision. I have two hens now 6 weeks old and very cute! I designed the coop and run to fit into our small garden very unobtrusively. I have no smell coming from my girls as I keep it very clean. My neighbors are a little strange, one was so scared of a little garden snake she poured gas over it and set it alight! The other is a foreign doctor who, when my allsym was flowering in my garden was afraid ants would be attracted to the lovely honey-like smell! I have not discussed my chickens with the neighbors for obvius reasons and am just hoping for the best. Perhaps as more of us have chickens and people see they are not smelly the stigma hopefully will go away, but people are slow to change their opinions.
 
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I agree. I'd much rather hang around with my animals than most people. They're just so much easier to understand.

I live in a subdivision, but my chickens live elsewhere. I'd love to keep them here, but the HOA says no and I have a way too nosey neighbor who would complain at a drop of a hat.

Just tell people that you like chickens, they're very entertaining, you're trying to be more self-sufficient and health conscience.
 
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I agree. I'd much rather hang around with my animals than most people. They're just so much easier to understand.

I live in a subdivision, but my chickens live elsewhere. I'd love to keep them here, but the HOA says no and I have a way too nosey neighbor who would complain at a drop of a hat.

Just tell people that you like chickens, they're very entertaining, you're trying to be more self-sufficient and health conscience.

while standing there overweight and smoking a cigarette?...
(thats just me of course)
 
why must you tell them anything? They're your chickens and you have a right to have them.
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However, if you feel you need to say anything to "explain" why you have/want chickens... you already provided the BEST answer possible in your original first post:

Quote: "I am extremely proud that my children will have the experience of getting food from our garden and from our chickens. I love the homesteading movement that is slowly coming back."

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There ya go!

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I live in a subdivision out in the country! Crazy huh?! Anyways... we all have an acre and I promise I'll only keep one rooster and share my eggs. No one cares... in fact 3 of our neighbors have chickens now!
 
Thankfully our part of the subdivision doesn't have an HOA. We're getting a large shed to partially convert into a coop and use the rest for storage, so I don't think the coop will be obtrusive. We have chain link dog panels we're going to use for their run - I think I'm going to paint those green they aren't quite so 'shiny' and noticeable. Thanks for all the advice!!!
 
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I agree. I'd much rather hang around with my animals than most people. They're just so much easier to understand.

I live in a subdivision, but my chickens live elsewhere. I'd love to keep them here, but the HOA says no and I have a way too nosey neighbor who would complain at a drop of a hat.

Just tell people that you like chickens, they're very entertaining, you're trying to be more self-sufficient and health conscience.

while standing there overweight and smoking a cigarette?...
(thats just me of course)

Ha! That's too funny!
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I never even thought of that. Thanks for the chuckle.
 
We live in .41 of an acre in a "subdivision". I used the quotations because we have sidewalks, pavement, cookie cutter houses at the FAR edge of town. Our subdivision is surrounded by 1-5 acre custom lots on three sides and open desert on the south. However, our house is surrounded by neighbors on .41 to .75 acre lots. We are allowed chickens (and a rooster). We were worried about keeping a rooster since one neighbor said he'd send his dog over to kill it (even though we are allowed to have one). Normally, I'd jsut threaten to call animal control, but he's a cop, so I know it'd be a losing battle. Well, the past 6-8 weeks, heaven opened up to us!
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The rude neighbor moved out and the neighbor on the other side got 2 roosters!!
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Several other neighbors have roosters that we can hear too (I'm taking the positive form this economy! Neighbors are all getting chickens it seems!). So, we have a few chicks (males and females) and plan to keep a few roos! We aren't "city", more of a subdivision on a populated rural area. By the time the chicks are old enough to be considered adults, we'll have ~25 hens and 3-4 roos.

As for it not being a farm...chickens are common pets, so it's like a small backyard farm.
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We jokingly call ours a Ranchito (little Ranch).
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Well, it's an OLD subdivision, where the houses all look different from each other . . . but we have 1/3 acre and neighbors on all sides just like you do.

One neighbor's first response was "oooh I love chickens!" and she goes on and on about how cute they are (I think she's buttering me up for eggs later) and she has somehow learned to keep her dog out of my yard SUDDENLY after I got chickens. Me thinks she might already know what happens to chicken-killing dogs. Since she's being so nice about it, I'll share the eggs
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The house on the other side is empty and the landlord didn't say anything when he was over there mowing last week.
I don't care what any of the further-away neighbors think. They keep to themselves most of the time. I have a problem with all their un-altered cats, so they can have a problem with my chickens if they want
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