- Feb 9, 2011
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Hello from [west of Atlanta] Georgia (also known as Powder Springs/Douglasville.) We are a young couple in our first home in Powder Springs. We just have a wee bit of acreage (1/2 acre) surrounding our home that we hope to make as workable as possible. We joined BYC to gain more information about, well, BYC and to see if it is something we could do on our own and with the space that we have at our home. We have some garden spots set up that we are currently building boxes for, and we wanted to see if we could add BYC to our home that we call "Suburbia Green."
We have some things to take into consideration though:
While we have an 8 ft privacy-fenced backyard that would help to keep potential BYC safe, we do have two dogs (inside dogs) that would love nothing more than moving prey. We don't want to stress our chickens out, and we want to keep them safe (from our dogs and other predators including stray dogs) by keeping them contained in a coop/henhouse set up in the 8 ft fenced yard. I was thinking of creating a corner just for them and possibly adding another gated area to keep them separate from overly-nosey dogs. (Our dogs also have great "leave its" and boundary markers, but c'mon...hopping around moving prey?
Noise concerns. I had a friend tell us that if we have two hens and no roosters, then noise wouldn't be a concern.
Heat exhaustion. It gets hot in Georgia.
Egg layers only: species suitable? Buff Orpington?
I'm sure all of these questions and considerations can be answered elsewhere on the forum, and we hope to expand our knowledge as much as possible. I have raised chickens in the past, but those were on a large farm owned by folks no longer in our lives (*cough* ex-spouse *cough*) so I am familiar with proper nutrition and basic care as well.
Looking forward to learning quite a bit!
Shelby
We have some things to take into consideration though:
While we have an 8 ft privacy-fenced backyard that would help to keep potential BYC safe, we do have two dogs (inside dogs) that would love nothing more than moving prey. We don't want to stress our chickens out, and we want to keep them safe (from our dogs and other predators including stray dogs) by keeping them contained in a coop/henhouse set up in the 8 ft fenced yard. I was thinking of creating a corner just for them and possibly adding another gated area to keep them separate from overly-nosey dogs. (Our dogs also have great "leave its" and boundary markers, but c'mon...hopping around moving prey?
Noise concerns. I had a friend tell us that if we have two hens and no roosters, then noise wouldn't be a concern.
Heat exhaustion. It gets hot in Georgia.
Egg layers only: species suitable? Buff Orpington?
I'm sure all of these questions and considerations can be answered elsewhere on the forum, and we hope to expand our knowledge as much as possible. I have raised chickens in the past, but those were on a large farm owned by folks no longer in our lives (*cough* ex-spouse *cough*) so I am familiar with proper nutrition and basic care as well.
Looking forward to learning quite a bit!
Shelby
