Your plan would sound good if chickens made no noise. If the HOA does not allow chickens, and enforces the covenents, then you will be busted for sure. There may well be really quiet chickens but I don't know of them. There are lots of otherwise very nice people that don't like chickens. I think they equate them with lower property values and hillbillies. Go figure. I wish you the best. I love chickens.