POLL: Legal Limits

[bogwitch]

My suburban area has no specified limits, as long as they don't create smell/noise issues with the neighbors. I highly suspect that my city will adopt the neighboring city's ordinance of max 4 hens, no roos. I have seven two-week old chicks, and they are all supposed to be hens.

My husband I dragged into chickens, but I catch him watching chicken TV all the time

I wanted to start out with 4 or 5, but I ordered a batch of 25 with a person who wanted no more than 20, and they sent 27! So, I had no other option than to keep 7

Right?

 

[gritsar]

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There is no limit to the number of chickens I can have. My DH just shakes his head and doesn't worry about it. Chickens are like potato chips, so I get the craving from time to time.

 

[navasima]

Albuquerque rocks! You may have 15 total including one roo- no lot size restriction and they are subject to the same noise ordinances as anything else. The neighbors on either side are anxious for my chicks to grow up because they love the sound of roosters in the AM! The neighbor across the street has many ducks and now wants chickens because he saw mine!

My menagerie and I are renting at the moment and my landlord preapproved every critter here (everything except the chickens and bunnies moved in with us). Sure I'm out of my mind - and the enablers are everywhere! Ha!

DH - well - he likes thing very neat and orderly. Inside was already under control - dogs and cat are seniors and the puppy is very clever and well behaved. Outside? Well, I have my 2 coops (big coop and chick coop) and the bunny hutch which are kept quite clean and - oh yeah- I painted them all to match! I'm going to paint the shed door to match next - so all looks quite tidy and if I may say - barfably cute! Is it working? Well - he does have his favorite chick now.......

Besides, when he sees our daughter cuddling a silkie.....

 

[macdoogle2]

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I also live in San Diego. Downtown. I'm sticking with that 25 chicken limit until someone tells me otherwise. I have 12 right now with one roo. He is a very polite boy and a late riser. Starts to crow around 7 in the morning. Good thing too as my alarm clock is broken and he has gotten me up in time for work several times. No one has complained about the hens or the crowing so far. Of course on this canyon we do have hawks screeching, crows cauking, airplanes landing and very loud Charger fans cussing, on a regular bases.

 

[2hot2chicken]

My city is unincorporated and has NO number limit set yet..... Just coop has to be 30 feet from the property line.
I currently have 8 hens in coop (1 with 2 chicks as of tonight), (7) 5 week old chicks in the house in 1 brooder and 2 very tiny silkie chicks in another small brooder (going outside tomorrow night if hen does good with the 2 (first time mom). Our home is on almost a half acre and corner lot with a park accross the street to 1 side and now an empty house next door and neighbors in the back that like to let my girls come over to their to play! So my coop is right on my back property line.......

I originally agreed to have 4, then 5, 6, and last was 7 as that is about the max our coop/run can easily take. I would rather give them all extra room than cram them in tight. I will be rehoming some of the oldest pullets I have so I can keep some of my silkie chicks I have in the house as I got addicted to silkies

and they will be funner for my daughter to show in 4h which is why we got started in the first place. Originally we agreed NO roosters but I am now leaning a little. If 1 of my splash silkie chicks is a roo then he might just have to stay. Other people in my neighborhood somewhere have roosters as I hear them all day long....... So why not then?

My DH already knew I was crazy when he met me! I had 4 saltwater reef aquariums including 1 that was 150 gallons and 1 that had seahorses in my little 2 bdrm apt with me n my 2 girls plus a dog! LOL So chickens are nothing. I have gotten out of the aquariums slowly over the last 3 years and chickens are my new hobby to throw money at as he puts it.......

However after we bought our house and (3 months later) got the chicks, he was the one who got a credit card in his name simply for the sake of building materials to build the coop

And they are "my" chickens, I was supposed to be the one taking full care of them. Tho since I am 8 months pregnant now he has taken to doing most of it on his own and has gotten attached to 1 of my silkie chicks even naming it, holding it every night and talking baby talk to it! So I think I converted him to the chicken side!!!!

 

[erinangele]

"Residents can keep approximately 4 chickens."

We started with 4, but added 2 more when they were a week old. I was so nervous one would be a Roo. They are 7 weeks old now and we are hoping to end up with 6 hens

We are both crazy

 

[VI KING RANCH]

Screw are city I'm not aloud any! But I have to many to count!

 

[kinsey228]

Here, there is no limit. They just have to be taken care of.

Which is a good thing, because I'm up to 20 Pullets and a Roo !

 

[Sphinx]

For lots that are around 1/3 acre, our city allows four hens, no roosters. They have all kinds of rules about the hen house/run/etc that are kind of silly. For example, your hens have to be enclosed in the run at all times. You can't let them roam around your fenced back yard. Really?

Anyway, I'm over an acre, so agricultural rules apply, which is some crazy (to me) number, like 150 or so.

I have 8 hens and 1 roo. I did hatch out 4 chicks yesterday/this morning, but they are going to my SIL, so they're not technically mine.


DH thought I was crazy long before this chicken thing. He acts like it's a little silly, but I think he's getting caught up in it himself.