Welcome to BYC! I sure do hope that you will find out that you can have chickens. They are so fun to watch!
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and Welcome to Backyard Chickens. 

When you do there is a lot of great information on here about coops/runs/chicken breeds/health and care/etc. Tons of info and a lot of great people to help answer your questions!

I heard back from my county commissioner, and unfortunately, she said no. We have to be agriculturally zoned and have at least 1 acre. We have the acre, but we are residentially zoned. Bummer! This looks like such a fun support group!!
Lots of folks keep them indoors!! There are such things as chicken diapers. 