townie chicken in disguise

[delcardo]

My daughter has always wanted a chicken but our town disallows poultry within city limits. Is there a breed we could get that could be mistaken for a pet bird? Our neighbors know nothing about chickens and think they are all noisy, messy crowers. I thought we could find some kind of hen that might not look too much like a chicken and could be a pet for a girl who lives in a townhouse with a small yard.
Thanks for your advice.

 

[silkiechicken]

You can try a pair of silkie hens. Or... A female pair of seabrights or seramas... Girls wont crow, silkies look fuzzy, seabrights and seramas are smaller than macaws.

 

[justusnak]

How about Banty Cochin Frizzles?? They are small...and a few hens would be quiet.
Here is my little one....she is a great hen!

 

[Weewanona]

White Banty Polish. If they ask - tell em it's a Cockatiel

 

[Picco]

People sometimes think my d'uccles are another species. They sometimes ask "what's that thing?" They are small and different looking.

 

[Critter Crazy]

I think most small Bantams would work. Old English games, Silkies, Seabrights, Japanese Bantams ect...

 

[Saltiena]

ya pretty much all banty hens would do the trick on the www.mypetchicken.com you can get 3 bantams and know one would even know

 

[eggchel]

Silkies are a good choice because the are sweet, cant fly, and no one seems to recognize them as chickens.

Another good choice would be a rumpless araucana bantam. They lay blue eggs, have no tail, a small pea comb, and often make calls that sound more like chuckers than chickens.


Definitely no roos, though, those will give you away.

chel