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Farmer Mike S said:
Has anyone here that lives in the suburbs ever had a rooster? I live on 2.5 acres and I assume it would probably be a bad idea?
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I lived right in the middle of town where I used to live & had about 10 roos at 1 point in time. No one ever said a word except my landlord & he went behind my back & tried to tell the health dept that my coops were too close to the house. When I got the letter from the health dept I called them & invited them to come measure my coops & everything & never heard from them again. They came out about 2 weeks later, never knocked on the door or anything, measured distance from house to nearest corner of coop & left without a word. I talked to a cop a couple months later who told me they couldn't say a word about my coops or birds because I was in compliance with all local ordinances & my birds were NPIP tested. Even if they got a complaint from a neighbor, they ignored it because they knew I was in compliance.

Not sure what your local ordinance says, but I do know if you are in compliance they can't say anything about your birds.
 
SilkieSensation said:
I lived right in the middle of town where I used to live & had about 10 roos at 1 point in time. No one ever said a word except my landlord & he went behind my back & tried to tell the health dept that my coops were too close to the house. When I got the letter from the health dept I called them & invited them to come measure my coops & everything & never heard from them again. They came out about 2 weeks later, never knocked on the door or anything, measured distance from house to nearest corner of coop & left without a word. I talked to a cop a couple months later who told me they couldn't say a word about my coops or birds because I was in compliance with all local ordinances & my birds were NPIP tested. Even if they got a complaint from a neighbor, they ignored it because they knew I was in compliance. 

Not sure what your local ordinance says, but I do know if you are in compliance they can't say anything about your birds.
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I don't know what my ordinance says, I gotta check but I was more worried about being that a-hole neighbor
 
Farmer Mike S said:
Has anyone here that lives in the suburbs ever had a rooster? I live on 2.5 acres and I assume it would probably be a bad idea?
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Mike:

Yeppers, I'm suburban...sort of...when I got chooks, I told all my neighbors about two weeks prior to gage their reaction...they all thought it was a kewl thing to do....later when I got the roo...I checked with them first to make sure they were ok with it...they were...I have a couple of neighbors that buy my eggs and a couple that save their veggie scraps for my crew...I think one of my neighbors may be getting a backyard situation together for themselves in the spring...I found that cultivating good neighborhood relations is important...really roosters are not any louder than a barking dog....
 
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Mike:

Yeppers, I'm suburban...sort of...when I got chooks, I told all my neighbors about two weeks prior to gage their reaction...they all thought it was a kewl thing to do....later when I got the roo...I checked with them first to make sure they were ok with it...they were...I have a couple of neighbors that buy my eggs and a couple that save their veggie scraps for my crew...I think one of my neighbors may be getting a backyard situation together for themselves in the spring...I found that cultivating good neighborhood relations is important...really roosters are not any louder than a barking dog....
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That's a good idea, to ask first and improve relations. Of course though the neighbor who's house is about 150 ft from my coup is the only neighbor who I have never ever talked to (18 years) and the neighbor about 100 yards away is the one that complains about my landscaping on the property line lol. The others are a lot farther away
 
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well most of you know that I am very new to raising chickens..........I have 4 chickens and 3 of them are almost at laying age. They will "come of age" in mid Oct/mid Nov

I am already thinking it would be so cool to have a few chicks to raise in the spring.


I could order day old chicks etc........or maybe some of you all will have chicks .......

another idea...........and this is my question for you all........has anyone ever had a rooster just come and "visit" for a short time to fertilize some of the gals?

Would that even work? I am wondering if the rooster would feel comfortable in a new setting and the girls and what about possible sharing of diseases?

What do you all think about this?
 
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He is really cool!! He looks like he is wearing "nickers"....so cool!! Beautiful color too!!!
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I have a 'thing' for buff.....oh..that didn't sound right...
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...anyway...Great bird!
 
LisaYolkUm said:
well most of you know that I am very new to raising chickens..........I have 4 chickens and 3 of them are almost at laying age. They will "come of age" in mid Oct/mid Nov

I am already thinking it would be so cool to have a few chicks to raise in the spring.


I could order day old chicks etc........or maybe some of you all will have chicks .......

another idea...........and this is my question for you all........has anyone ever had a rooster just come and "visit" for a short time to fertilize some of the gals?

Would that even work? I am wondering if the rooster would feel comfortable in a new setting and the girls and what about possible sharing of diseases?

What do you all think about this?
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....wondering too...
 

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