you should move to tn, we have no rules no permits on anything!! I have 16 b/c of chicken math i ws supposed to just start with 3 but thats an odd number and they needed friends and then don't forget spring, thats when you HAVE to get chicks.. so maybe another 16 or 20...b/c now i am experciend.. muhahaha
just tell people they aren't chickens... the extra ones they are pollo's ! lol
i agree, just bribe neighbors with some eggs. you don't even have to tell them that you're bribing them, just go over every once and a while and give a half dozen eggs or so to the neighbors on either side. if they ask questions, just say you had extra eggs.
Ug! I feel your pain. I'm not allowed ANY chickens. If I lived 10 minutes down the road, I could have four hens. Obviously, I'm not good at math as I don't know how many miles away I could legally have chickens sooo obviously I'm a chicken math failure as well. I didn't realize I needed a speckled sussex and blue orpington too. Luckily my neighbors are great and love the birds. My coop and run are tucked away nicely and I never let it get smelly. My girls free range the back yard daily, when supervised and cooperate by being very quiet. Chickens? What chickens?!!
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I have six. I thought I might end up with four out of six.....one was doing well from being shipped and another we were 100% was a rooster. The weak one got better, and the roo turned out NOT to be a roo (I found out you can't feather sex Speckled Sussex & just because they act like a roo doesn't mean they are one
). My neighbor is a deputy sheriff and when I told him, he said no one cares unless you have a rooster. He gives the girls all the weeds and fallen apples from their yard
. So just as long as your neighbors don't complain you're fine.