Raise Your Own Chickens in Your Back Yard?

[MissB]

17. Yep. I live just outside of city limits

Most folks here in my neighborhood have kitchens larger than my entire first floor, and I don’t have an especially small house.

I have my normal sized home on a half acre. I could have a rooster but choose not to because I like my neighbors. I currently have 17 hens. I know there are a few neighbors here and there that have smaller flocks.

The hen house and run take up a section of my yard that wouldn’t be used for growing anything. Right now I’m getting 5-6 eggs a day, should ramp up to about a dozen a day during the summer. I have a mix of young and older hens.

They’re pets that happen to produce an edible product as well as some amazing compost additives.

I give my eggs away to friends and family and close neighbors.