• Benjaben@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    What are your thoughts on suburban chicken ownership? I’m wholly uninterested, I need another creature to keep alive like I need another hole in the head, but my wife and daughter are really into the idea.

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      1 day ago

      That’s essentially what I have been doing. You’d be surprised how many predators still roam the suburbs though. I have lost chickens to raccoons, opossums, hawks, dogs and foxes.

      My only real suggestion is check your zoning. I was operating in a kind of grey area but I have known people who had to get rid of their chickens to avoid daily fines. Getting well set up for chickens is a bit of work, I wouldn’t want to do that in vain.