Carolyn Pike Roman Webboard User Reg: 03-20-2007
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I'm just curious, but looking at the farm pics on another post-- do you keep the dogs and chickens separated all the time? Is it just a matter of fencing/rotating dogs-chicks/etc? Training the dogs?
One of my neighbors has a few hens for eggs. Sounds nice but I can't picture my dogs not wanting to play with the birds and ending up killing them
We lost two guineas to our dogs when we first got them, but in all fairness the stoopit birds flew right down INTO the dog kennel with one of our highest prey-drive dogs, Ozeta. I wouldn't leave any of our dogs out with the chickens totally unsupervised and there are a couple of the very young dogs we have to watch carefully. Mostly it's a case of training. "Leave it" is your best friend. If we are outside too, all of the dogs are safe around the birds or rather, the birds are safe around the dogs. Most don't even show an inordinate amount of interest in them, even when they have to literally run through them to get out the back door. http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e257/OkieAmazon/Birds/backporch.jpg
Our chickens have a large fenced in area with two lines of hot wire around the outside peremiter, added after seeing how badly the dogs wanted to "go see the chickies", and to deter fox and racoons. We've recently had a young group of chickens fly over the 6' fence, and unfortunately, 2 were killed by our other dog Sadie. Some dogs (low prey drive) are fine around hens, but neither of my dogs would fall into that category.
Tracy Collins Webboard User Reg: 10-09-2008
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My hen house backs up to the garage, but isn't attached. It's about 10 feet from our property line...and I have no idea if there's any ordinance. My neighbors don't care and our city has better things to do with limited resources than worry about my little flock.
City ordinances about chicken-keeping vary. I do know that chickens are allowed here (and have become quite popular), without regard to yard size. They are counted among the total number of "pets" of any type allowed. ...But I'm not talking about that, either.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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That is pretty cool to be able to do that with in city limits. I don't know if it would work here. I have alot of coyotes, faxes skunks etc here in the woods behind my home. My property if fenced but I doubt that my neighbor would be thrilled either.
I do know that there is a house across town on the street next to the office that I was working that had chickens. I would often see them running around the house & by the road on some mornings on my way into the office. Don't know if they just had them or were actually allowed to,
Carolyn Pike Roman Webboard User Reg: 03-20-2007
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Wow that really is nice, Tracy!
In SA you can have up to 3 "domestic fowl". It doesn't specify hens/roosters. There is a distance requirement from the nearest occupied building or habitation (not including the owner's) of 100ft. You can probably find your city's under the applicable code of ordinances at http://www.municode.com
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I call it the Coop de Ville. 
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