How crazy would we be to put our coop & pen right next to our bedroom?

With only three HENS (rooster would be another story), I don't think it would be a big deal. I really enjoy listening to my girls. And they sleep during the dark hours, so when you're sleeping there would be little/no noise. AND you'd be able to hear if there were ever predator problems. Plus it would give you incentive to keep their coop very clean

 

If you have odor in your coop/run that is so strong you can smell it through an exterior wall of a home, you shouldn't be keeping chickens to begin with. As for noise, they sleep during the nighttime hours, same time you do. They may wake earlier than you, if you're the type to sleep in, but you'll likely get used to it after a while and learn to sleep right through it. My free-range gaggle of geese sleep about 20 feet from my bedroom window (a window that is right next to my head as I sleep) and they make a ruckus every night at least once. It used to wake me, but not anymore. Only if it's an out of the ordinary kind of ruckus do I wake now. The normal honking I sleep right though. And geese are MUCH MUCH louder than chickens ever even thought about being.

 

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If all you'll have is 3 hen's I don't see where you'll have a problem. How well insulated is your house?? The only time I hear my chickens is when my rooster is on the back porch crowing!!

 

Flies, lice, mites, odor and dust. Yup. Those are the bonuses.
Of course, they wake at 5 am and get to talking and such just when you want to sleep in.

But seriously. No way. Absolutely no way you want the poop and the flies right out side your bedroom, really.
Or, maybe you do, I don't know.

 

I guess it depends what bothers you. Flies. Smell. Sounds. Mess. Poop flung up the walls of your house.

Sounds alone would not bother me. I love the sound of my rooster, Gingy, in the morning. Lifts my spirits even before I get up . My husband's spirits, not so much, though.

 

ours are within 16 feet of our bedroom window. we don't have a rooster, granted, but we never hear our girls. The smell is something we don't have a problem with as we clean often, just like you plan to. DE will keep the flies and other bugs at bay. We have a routine with it. We smell dirt, but not dirty if that makes sense. Our run is a dirt base. Smells way better than the dog area, would much rather the chickens near our bedroom windows than the dog runs, hahahahahaha.

 

Well, it would be great for predator control and protection. You could jump out the bedroom window and choke anything that is after the chickens. Those early wake up calls from a batch of happy hens might get old quickly.