Chicken Coops

SamSpade

SamSpade

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Not sure why - maybe I chatted or wrote online too often about chickens and eggs, but I started seeing ads for chicken coops, and they're surprisingly affordable.

I have no idea if I need any kind of permit to have animals like that on my property - I suppose if I have a dog that poops indiscriminately out back and I am always watching for land mines, that having chickens in a caged contraption on my own property can't be a problem.

Does anyone HAVE chickens? When time comes to - end them - do you do it yourself? I don't think I can ever have the ability to kill a chicken.
 
PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

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SamSpade said:
Not sure why - maybe I chatted or wrote online too often about chickens and eggs, but I started seeing ads for chicken coops, and they're surprisingly affordable.

I have no idea if I need any kind of permit to have animals like that on my property - I suppose if I have a dog that poops indiscriminately out back and I am always watching for land mines, that having chickens in a caged contraption on my own property can't be a problem.

Does anyone HAVE chickens? When time comes to - end them - do you do it yourself? I don't think I can ever have the ability to kill a chicken.
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I have a couple neighbors that have free range chickens that roam the neighborhood with no problem. As long as you don't get a rooster they are no problem for neighbors. I'm much more annoyed with the people from south of the border down the road with 27 dogs that bark all night long.
 
Kyle

Kyle

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When I was a kid, my mother kept chickens. We had a little space and it was not a problem with zoning.

After their useful egg laying comes to an end, killing them is easy enough. It's plucking and dressing that are a PITA.
 
RoseRed

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PeoplesElbow said:
I have a couple neighbors that have free range chickens that roam the neighborhood with no problem. As long as you don't get a rooster they are no problem for neighbors. I'm much more annoyed with the people from south of the border down the road with 27 dogs that bark all night long.
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Someone semi close to me does also. I've found them in my yard a couple of times.
 
PeoplesElbow

PeoplesElbow

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Egg laying chickens have very little meat though, not worth the effort IMHO to eat them. Their cochlea will fall out after a while and they will need euthanized.
 
Kyle

Kyle

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PeoplesElbow said:
Egg laying chickens have very little meat though, not worth the effort IMHO to eat them. Their cochlea will fall out after a while and they will need euthanized.
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If memory serves... They made for good soup.
 
NorthBeachPerso

NorthBeachPerso

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SamSpade said:
Not sure why - maybe I chatted or wrote online too often about chickens and eggs, but I started seeing ads for chicken coops, and they're surprisingly affordable.

I have no idea if I need any kind of permit to have animals like that on my property - I suppose if I have a dog that poops indiscriminately out back and I am always watching for land mines, that having chickens in a caged contraption on my own property can't be a problem.

Does anyone HAVE chickens? When time comes to - end them - do you do it yourself? I don't think I can ever have the ability to kill a chicken.
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Depends on where you live and the Zoning classification. In Calvert you have to have a minimum lot size, I don't remember what, either 3 or 5 acres and be Ag zoning. A gift from one of the former Commissioners who wanted Calvert to be more like Fairfax and Montgomery Counties.

That might have changed, though, since there was a dustup about it a couple years ago.
 
Monello

Monello

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Some neighborhoods in America have free range chickens like other places have pigeons. Tampa is 1 and I think Miami was another. Then there were the donkeys in Oatman, AZ.
 
Merlin99

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buddscreek said:
take the old hens to the amish livestock auction. they have it every two weeks, check farrell's auction service for dates.


p.s. i meant chickens... not wives or girlfriends
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How much can you get for an expired egg layer, doesn't seem like it can be much.
 
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dave20

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buddscreek said:
The Hispanics buy them. $3 to $5 dollars i have seen. they are used in an hispanic dish
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My Aunt and Uncle had tons of chickens. They sold eggs for a living. When they got to the point where they were no longer consistent producers they would sell them for about 50 cents a piece. People would come there and buy several at a time and stuff them in burlap sacks. Once they got all of them out they'd clean the coop out, put fresh sawdust on the floor so it was ready once the next batch of chicks had matured to a point that they no longer needed to be in the brood house.
 
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