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OrpingtonManor

Building the Castle
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Nov 15, 2008
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I have been wandering around this website and forum for months now but just recently started posting. This place has been indispensable for me, since I have never had chickens before. My 4 Buff Orpington pullets are thriving. I got them as new babies late last spring.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I still don't know if my chickens are legal, but there are others in my (downtown) neighborhood who have what I guess to be Silkies. I try to be a good neighbor at all times.

Thank you for the coop pages. I built my coop based on a nice one I saw there.

Every question I have had, I have come here to research. This is a great site.

I finally joined in November, but still just hanging around getting information from the "sages."

It's true, I have found this site to be addictive. Great info and great people. Thanks again.
 
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Welcome it intrigues me seeing posts from people who live in the big cities,and how they have to worry about whether they can legally keep thier birds or not. Being raised in a rural area the idea of maybe having to hide my chickens is just hard to imagine. Do you have an area for them to freerange any or or are they cooped at all times?
 
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Glad to have you here! LOTS of great advice and even better people!!!
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Christina
 
Hi Bantamman 13. To answer your questions...

I live in a very small "city" of 35,000 people. I don't try to hide them at all. My neighbors are all in on the secret. My chickens are very docile, pretty quiet, and generally good ambassadors.

I took my chances on the legality because of the other chickens up the road that have been there for years. It is a very old neighborhood with no CC&Rs. We border a regional park, so have a slightly more rural feel than it sounds, even though the downtown is a short walk away.

I have a fenced yard, a coop that gives them nearly 10 sq ft of indoor space per bird, and they free-range as much as I can let them. They help me turn the compost pile, and snack on weeds and fruit from my trees. (No pesticides.) I am currently building an enclosure for them to keep them safe from predators, but still give them room to scratch, take dirt baths and sunbathe. (Sometimes they even use the chaise lounges for this purpose. Hmm.) They are locked in the coop at night, and when I am not home.

While hope is not a strategy, I hope that keeping friendly birds, a clean and aesthetic coop, and sharing eggs will continue the positive feedback I have gotten from my neighbors.
 
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Hello OM from Martinez, CA. I used to know a Cheryl Blasnek from Martinez, CA years ago. Met her in Ecuador. Great woman.

Happy chicken raisin'
 

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