How many here are actual backyarders vs. Farmers?

[andrew6d9]

farmer klunk here

 

[Boyd]

back yarder for sure. 5 acres with 1/2 acre of garden for fam and the rest to cultivate the rest of the wildlife to be harvested come october

 

[SuburbanHayseed]

I am very definitely a "backyarder". I live in an area that does permit us to have six hens but unfortunately no roos. I live on Long Island, New York, in Patchogue where property is wic.kedly expensive and the taxes are the highest in the country. I have only 1/3 of an acre, but it is slowly becoming dominated by composting, organic gardening and of course, chickens. I live in the house built by my maternal grandfather in 1919

This is my first post, but certainly not the first time I have been on the BYC blog just spending HOURS reading and learning! I'm addicted to this site.

I have already met a great contact (poster "Entwife in the Bluegrass" Laura) regarding Buckeye Chickens. I had a burning question about the way my new chicks were feathering out, found her farm's e-mail address and wrote to her with a photo. Within an hour she gave a very reassuring response! I am very thankful that there is such a mixture of farm people, breeders, and people who show chickens because it is tremendously helpful to us neophytes.

 

[Q9]

Backyarder. We're not inside city limits, but we're in a neighborhood.

 

[Holy City Hens]

Backyard, here! Right in the middle of beautiful Charleston, SC.

 

[Dybael]

Backyarder here, in the suburbs of Boston.

 

[Kassaundra]

Quote:

from Oklahoma.

 

[Echolalia]

Definitely a backyarder - my yard is, by San Francisco standards, large (~30 ft x ~75 ft) but nowhere near an acre.

 

[jtbrown]

We are both? Ten acres, lots of domesticated pets, our city friends think we have a farm, our country farmer friends think we are "cute" in our efforts at being farmers. So, I guess we think of ourselves as a backfarmyardy kind of family.

 

[TerryQui]

I am an "IN THE HOUSER" as I am keeping my chickens in my bird room. City rules are too strict. Maybe next year I will put them out there.