HELP- Need to hide my coop

[maybejoey]

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Amen to that!

I really can't see what perks they offer that would make it worth putting up with an HOA. If they're not complaining about your pets, it's your trashcan that doesn't match everyone else's, or your mailbox is too gaudy, or who knows what.

That's why I moved as far out in the country as I could. Anyone shows up on my porch to complain about my chickens, or anything else for that matter, I'd threaten to fill their backside with buckshot!

Sorry you got busted...hope you can get your rules changed. If not, come join me in the country!

true that. My neighbors ran another one of my neighbors (a.k.a the only good neighbors) out of town for causing too much dust with there horses, and we live in the country with only about 3 houses within a mile of us.

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[citychickx6]

The thing that struck me is it is 3/4 acre. Some neighbors

really need to keep their eyes on their own yard. WOW just WOW. SO glad I stood my ground with my realtor when I was buying.

 

[Patricia Jane]

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x2 that's great

 

[rittert3]

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x2 that's great

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I would love to live some where where I didn't have to hide birds and would love to live in a tent but my wife is a differnt story

 

[wyan_zen]

Regardless of where we stay these days, planned community, HOA managed or even in the country, we will always have bad neighbors. Check this recent CNN video...

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/09/21/mxp-anti-for-sale-sign.hln

We have less then desirable neighbors ourselves...we overhear them talking down on us being "nasty chicken people", and other derogatory terms BYC folks may have been called one time or another. Our last straw for totally ignoring them is catching them procreating on their deck one evening. I decided to put our chicken black gold composting stash on the shared property line. We are not even in the same subdivision.

 

[rngrbill]

"Normal household pets" How many people does it take to make something normal? How many BYCers have "Normal household pets" ?

I've only had my girls for a couple of weeks but if I had to loose them I'd

 

[rpchris]

I'm probably going to be beat up for saying this, but...

If you aren't allowed to have chickens due to either a HOA covenant or a city-wide statute then you should have researched that BEFORE you got the chickens. If you were aware of the ban and still went ahead with getting the chickens without getting the consent and promised silence of all of your neighbors then it really is your own fault.

I'm not saying that laws or regulations than ban chickens are right, but they are the laws and people have the right to see that they are enforced, no matter how misguided they may be.

The best thing you could do is work to educate people such as your neighbors, members of the HOA, members of the city council, etc and try to get the ban lifted in your area. Or move.

Sorry for being blunt, but that is the reality of the situation.

 

[cassidy22]

there's a reason I don't live in an HOA neighborhood!

I second the playhouse idea. I actually have a converted playhouse that I use to segrated a few birds for breeding. The trouble is keeping my 2yo daughter out of it, cause she thinks it's great fun! Find out if any outbuildings (sheds, etc) have to be painted to match, and get yourself a shed. We put mesh wire on the windows and shutters, so we can completely close it up when it's cold. We also have a small hole we can feed an extension cord through with a hook in the ceiling to run a heat lamp in the winter. The main door is a dutch door, so you can open the top to put in food and water, without them getting out (if you want them to stay in during the winter) YOu cna leave the whole door open, or the dutch door open and they can fly in and out. a perch inside, that house would happily fit 6 chickens.

 

[chicmom]

Darned nibby-nosed neighbors! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

If it's allowed, I'd put up that privacy fence, so I could do what I wanted to do.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

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You got them even though you knew they weren't allowed???

Even if you hide the coop, you can't hide the noise the mature hens make.

I hope you are able to find good homes for them.