Okay so the problem here is that the town I live in only allows 6 eggs laying hens. I have seramas and I did all of the paperwork and paid the fee for the permit to keep them in a coop outside. The problem is that I also have 2 roosters. The guy in the cityhall building could not believe how tiny they are and I even brought my hen Sunny over to show him. He told me to not worry as much about the numbers and what not because of their size. BUT to try to still only have 6 of them outside at a time so nobody else gets any ideas with bigger chickens. He said if the roosters are not significantly louder than my parrots that I should keep them inside and "blame Polly". My original plan was to keep them in the bird room anyways. I run a HEPA filter and have full spectrum lighting on everyone's cages known as AviSun UVB bulbs;. It is my intention to let them lay fertile eggs and hatch chicks. Can the hens come inside and take turns spending the day/night with the roos or would that not work? The roosters live in 2 very large parrot cages that are back to back and they are usually out of the the cage for about 2-4 hours a day while I'm doing computer work.
