ever heard of urban chickens?

my neighbors on the left have a chicken coop in their backyard (i live in an older neighborhood of Seattle) and they keep 5 really beautiful chickens in there. they look delicious. anyway, a couple of months ago there was a city-wide coop tour, and they must have had 100 people come through their yard to check out the chickens.

i had no idea that urban chickens were such a big thing.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=urban+chickens

and occasionally brought eggs for us.

It's a big thing. I've thought about it, but I've already got a lot of animals to look after.

Some of the breeds are very beautiful... dunno if you were joking, but I really think so!

I probably look like a weirdo at the state fair, taking pictures of different kinds of chickens.

Local codes allow chickens but prohibit roosters. There is one free-range rooster in my neighborhood that has an appointment with a pressure cooker.

my neighbors don't have a rooster, but those chickens can get noisy.

and would always wake my Uncle up. Finally, one night my Uncle had enough and he went out with his .30.30 and blew the rooster away. I guess it was quiet after that.

I'm thinking I'll need my "Sweet Sixteen" to dispatch Don Juan. ;)

unfortunately this was in a new orleans neighborhood destroyed by katrina so i suppose the urban chickens and/or owners are long gone now

some people had some quite beautiful chickens and even a guinea hen or two thrown in for spice

as buzz says as long as you do not have the roosters, many people would not even be aware that they were back there

They enjoy fresh eggs, watching them interact, and yes their beauty...
Some of them are beautiful...
They eat all sorts of leftovers, so what doesn't go in the compost pile gets fed to the chickens....
They have such a soft cluck.... sounds like murmuring
Did you know the chickens are delivered by mail????


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each other warm during shipment. It also pays to have your regional post office call you for pick-up rather than wait the extra day for delivery.

You can get together with some friends to combine an order. this also lets you order some of the exotic or heritage breed such as Buff Orpingtons, Polish, Dominiques etc.

We just have 1 left. She's a pet now, as she stopped laying eggs a few years ago.

I would love to have chickens again, now I live in the city, will have to check my local laws.
Carly

ride to the hen house in a Rolls FUCKING Royce!

;-)

I don't want em in my neighborhood...

More crime, property values plunging.

Fucking chickens. I hate em.

...one of our neighbors (two doors down) is a complete moran. :P About seven years ago, he bought a rooster to take to his father as a present. He tied the rooster to a tree with a string, and it got away. :eyes: That rooster decided our fenced-in back yard (and this is a suburban upscale area) was his home, and he used one of our maple trees to roost every night. There was no way in hell you could catch the damn rooster because he was so fast (we tried, believe me). One of our dogs came close a couple of times. The rooster would squeeze through our fence about 6 PM and then strut his way to our maple tree. If our dog Casey would have been fast enough, she would have gotten him a couple of times. :P Animal Control knocked on our door one day asking why we were keeping a rooster in our neighborhood. We told them whose it was and that the rooster had adopted us. Oh, and the neighborhood cats chased it all the time. He was a beautiful bird. He disappeared one snowy winter about four years ago, and we assumed he succumbed to the cold.

If Idiot Boy had taken the rooster to his dad like he planned, none of that would have happened.

Edited to say Mr. Honky MoFo Rooster would wake us up at 5 AM daily with his crowing. x(

I even know the author of "Keep Chickens!" Barbara Kilarski, who lives up in my neighborhood. Don't know if it was her rooster I used to hear crow in the mornings.

Somebody who moved here from LA once asked what the deal with all the free roosters on Craigslist was. The number of roosters you can keep is strictly limited by city laws, so people end up with roosters when the chicks hatch and have to find something to do with them.

There's a little garden shop/nursery down the street with two chickens and a rooster. Pretty darned cute lot.

... with photos of some of the coops. Some very clever designs!

i wonder if their coop was in your book?

but it's supposed to be an excellent way to eliminate deer ticks.

Leave roosters out of the equation, they just complicate things.

And a duck. They don't ever really make that much noise. Our neighbors have never complained.

My kind of flock!

I was wondering if it might be a Cayuga (dark plumage), or possibly an Indian Runner or dark Campbell?

I have wanted a couple for a while, but the old ball and chain just won't go for it.

My bosses son has 6 or 7 chickens. They live about a block from downtown.