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Andreaw
Joined: 11 Mar 2006
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 Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject: Information required |
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| Hello, I am new to the forum. We have a large garden and live in a residential area. I would like to keep a couple of chickens, but I do not know what the rules and regulations are regarding keeping poultry in a residential area. Any help or advice would be very much appreciated. |
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madslg
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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Location: Farnham
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Hi, I am similar to you in the large garden and residential area and to be honest just went out and did it!
Keep the neighbours sweet with eggs and be guarded against the fox and you will be fine!
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summayah
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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Location: luton
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| Hello Andreaw and welcome to the froum. The same as yourself and madslg ~ I have a large garden and a house and I just went and got chickens. I never got any boys just girls for the eggs ~ but mainly just to watch them scratching round the garden. Go for it ~ you won't regret it and you'll soon be the same as everyone else, wondering what size chicken house to go for next!!! |
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Lisa
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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Location: Milton Keynes, Bucks
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If you are a tenant, then you should check your rental agreement to see if there are any conditions regards keeping animals.
If you own your own house or have a mortgage, then you should check your deeds to see if there are any restrictions there.
Apart from that the only problem could be if the local council get a complaint and, AFAIK, that could only be if your birds make an unreasonable amount of noise (eg a cockeral crowing louding, early or repeatedly in a built up area) or smell badly, or attract a bad pest problem (ie rats)!
I emailed my council before we got ours, and that's what I was told...
So, as long as you are not keeping a cockeral that crows early and loudly in a built up area (you don't need a cockeral for eggs) and as long as you are keeping your birds in good conditions (so there is no smell or rat infestation) then there should be no grounds for complaints from your neighbours.
AFAIK chooks don't have to be completely quiet (some chooks can be a bit vocal for a few minutes after they've laid an egg - bit like they're letting you know what they've done  ), just not unreasonably so.... Afterall dogs, kids and traffic all make some noise.
HTH,
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Andrew
Joined: 25 Feb 2006
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Location: Roquefort les Pins, France
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Hi andreaw, and welcome,
A single bit of advice; assume you will actually want at least twice as many hens as you think you want, and get a coop accordingly
Even if you only get a couple of girls you'll wonder how you managed before, and cringe at the thought of a supermarket bought egg which is at least a whole seven days old, rather than just 24 hours....
Ciao,
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CP
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | If you own your own house or have a mortgage, then you should check your deeds to see if there are any restrictions there. |
You should check this out Andreaw as friends of ours have a clause in their deeds saying they aren't allowed to keep chickens. 
Really hope you haven't got any reason not to have them as once you do get them you'll be completely obsessed like the rest of us!  |
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George
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Lisa wrote: | | So, as long as you are not keeping a cockeral that crows early and loudly in a built up area |
Unless you are lucky enough to have neighbours like mine, who really like to hear Charlie crowing!   |
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poultry poofs
Joined: 13 Apr 2005
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Location: Wensleydale,North Yorkshire.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Andrew wrote: |
Even if you only get a couple of girls you'll wonder how you managed before, and cringe at the thought of a supermarket bought egg which is at least a whole seven days old, rather than just 24 hours....
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I despise supermarkets but having worked for the largest egg producer in the country I can vouch that the eggs in the supermarkets are almost as fresh as your own when they get into the store.The only time lag is how long they sit on the shelves.Legally eggs can remain on sale for 28 days from lay.A whole lot different from 30 years ago when eggs generally had a refrigerated sell by life of 6 months.
that said there is no touching the quality of home produced free range eggs compared with commercial free range.I've seen those places too!
As regards keeping chickens in your garden go for it, the only restrictions are as has already been pointed out.Generally unless your house is fairly new there will not normally be any deed restrictions.The main concerns are noise/smell nuisance.
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