City Chickens

[tkuehn5410]

If you want 3, get 6. I've got 6 Rhode Island Reds and am getting another 3 for our small area. We let them out a couple hours when home. They aren't loud unless they are out of food/water, or a predator is nearby. They are the best pets ever, but will poop all over your back porch if you let them free range.

[Electrican]

If you’re good with below then carry on. This is based on backyard setups.

Weekly coupe clean outs and disposal of a lot of crap.
Changing water every other day if not daily cause they crap in it
Feeding and caring for 20+ weeks for egg production to start
Feathers all over yard when molting
Expensive feed
Flies by the thousands all during warmer months
Crap all over your porch, chairs, etc if you let them out
And hens can/will be loud and annoying for long durations throughout the day
If you get 6 hens expect about an average of 3-4 eggs per day mostly

Not trying to discourage you just stating what comes with them.

[dhall1414]

We probably eat 5-6 eggs every breakfast.

to hit that daily consumption most days out of the year you'd probably want to shoot for 7 to 9 hens. 8 would be good if you start with the year old cinnamon queens.

[snappertapper]

We looked into doing the same thing. Turned out eggs from heb were cheaper.

[Box-R]

Our free-range chickens made very tasty eggs; bright yellow yoke. HEB eggs do not compare.
Side benefit (yes on flies) is that the chickens ate every grasshopper, cricket, scorpion, maggot, etc that they could, so we had a very low insect load.

[Hammerdown]

We looked into doing the same thing. Turned out eggs from heb were cheaper.

Waaaay cheaper and we have chickens!

[mjhaverkamp]

We have 12 hens and a rooster, live in the city but on 4 acres so that makes it nice, we do like getting the fresh eggs but we also get a lot of joy with our grand kids, they just love the chickens.

[WItoTX]

We looked into doing the same thing. Turned out eggs from heb were cheaper.

My wife every 3-6 months suggests we get chickens. Every time, I walk her through what it costs in excel, and we update pricing together.

3 minutes later we decide to get our eggs from HEB or one of her co-workers. LOL

[TreyRo]

We have chickens but not because they are cheaper. We are on two acres with 18 of those things. But going to probably thin the heard when it warms up.

[powderburner]

OK... Here is by far the best coop you can buy for chickens. I have one for 5 years now and it looks like new.
they are not cheap but will last.

https://roostandroot.com/product-category/coops/

Next chickens are like bows or guns... everyone has an opinion.
Easter Eggers are cool, cheap, and produce

Chickens will go to roost every night. If you free range them.
IF you free range them your yard will look beautiful for the first few months. They will eat all the bugs and weeds. Crap all over and make a green yard..... BUT .. and BUT.. then they will start eating everything else... making dust baths in your flower beds. craping on your stuff... We used to and still do from time to time but for the most part they stay in the coop.

if you use the type of feeders shown on the page above and that type of waterer. you will not have issues with them.
I have 5 large birds now and 5 bantam birds.

All chickens will have time of molting or whatever where they become freeloading broody jerks. but other than that good feed fresh water and you are good

[peterp63]

We have 12 hens and a rooster, live in the city but on 4 acres so that makes it nice, we do like getting the fresh eggs but we also get a lot of joy with our grand kids, they just love the chickens.

Yeah, main reason is for the kiddos and they’re healthier

[peterp63]

OK... Here is by far the best coop you can buy for chickens. I have one for 5 years now and it looks like new.
they are not cheap but will last.

https://roostandroot.com/product-category/coops/

Next chickens are like bows or guns... everyone has an opinion.
Easter Eggers are cool, cheap, and produce

Chickens will go to roost every night. If you free range them.
IF you free range them your yard will look beautiful for the first few months. They will eat all the bugs and weeds. Crap all over and make a green yard..... BUT .. and BUT.. then they will start eating everything else... making dust baths in your flower beds. craping on your stuff... We used to and still do from time to time but for the most part they stay in the coop.

if you use the type of feeders shown on the page above and that type of waterer. you will not have issues with them.
I have 5 large birds now and 5 bantam birds.

All chickens will have time of molting or whatever where they become freeloading broody jerks. but other than that good feed fresh water and you are good

These look nice. Noticed the poop just drops down into the run between the wire flooring. Is this better or something with bedding?


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[Etxnoodler]

If you want layed back chickens that lay a good amount of eggs get red star. If you want the most feed efficient possible white leghorns

[BonesandArrow]

If you want 3, get 6. I've got 6 Rhode Island Reds and am getting another 3 for our small area. We let them out a couple hours when home. They aren't loud unless they are out of food/water, or a predator is nearby. They are the best pets ever, but will poop all over your back porch if you let them free range.

I live in the city, had 5 hens and we let them out every day. They never went over the fence but my back porch and yard was covered in poo. We had way too many eggs and couldn’t give them away fast enough. The poop and flies drove me crazy. So we gave the chickens away and sold the very expense coop I built. Start small and cheap.

[Mitchell8]

My wife every 3-6 months suggests we get chickens. Every time, I walk her through what it costs in excel, and we update pricing together.

3 minutes later we decide to get our eggs from HEB or one of her co-workers. LOL

I’m spending $1 a dozen in feed. My initial start up cost was $500. So after 500 days I’ll finally make it to the eggs averaging around $2 a dozen. Definitely not some way cheaper way to get eggs and e we did it about the cheapest way possible. Most people buy a $1,000 coop