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adam04:
ive got a problem with this board, i want hens!! grrrr!!  i hate you all im not talking to any of you who have hens!

i dont think the neighbours would approve of them at home, and i dont think i would get down to the lottie often enough to look after them. is it possible by only going down once a week? maybe twice?

Do thye make lots of noise as they back onto houses so dont want lots of complaints about clucking hens!

Delilah:
you're not going all stroppy and stomping your foot are you Adam ;) :o

think so long as you don't have a cockerel its Ok to keep hens in a residential area Adam, but I haven't got any yet so am not truely qualified to comment :-X

Heldi:
I have an allotment neightbour who has moved house. He has a massive hopper for food and a lot of water for his hens. He is waiting for someone to take them over as he doesn't live in the town anymore. He visits about twice a week. I wouldn't recommend it though,he is just stuck between the devil and a hard place at the moment. Hens do need looking after and need to be observed. Most people I know who have hens go to them twice a day.  The longest I've not seen mine for was 3 days over the New Year. First thing i did when I got back into town was straight round to the hens...before going home or anything else.  Hens don't make that much noise. Well it depends on the hen. My Tammy makes a right cluck when she's laid an egg, but it's only once a day. Cockerels crow most of the morning,there's a one I hear all afternoon. He sounds like he's being strangled and one day it might just  be true!

I hope you do get some hens. I started with six and now have 15. I buy in threes. Don't know why.  Once you get them you may find yourself well and truely hooked and will want to spend more time with them,by hook or by crook!

Jesse:
Awww, Adam, please talk to us :D Hens make a little bit of noise, especially when they lay an egg...they like to tell the world how clever they are, but it only lasts a few minutes. They are quiet when it's dark and even through the day they make no more noise than for example someones dog who may bark a couple times a day. Stay away from cockerels if you don't want noise! We live in a residential area, for a good few months some of our neighbours didn't even know we had hens. Check the covenants on your property for any clauses about keeping hens and it doesn't harm to call the council to make sure there aren't any restrictions in your area, I doubt there will be. I wouldn't recommend having them at your allotment if you can only check on them once or twice a week, I go out to see my hens twice a day. If you leave the eggs for days at a time then you'll probably have problems with hens going broody or possibly have hens starting to peck at and eat the eggs, a bad habit which is difficult to reverse. If you're worried about your neighbours why not chat to them and see what they think, ours say they love to hear the hens and the added bonus of fresh eggs keeps them happy. :)

Robert_Brenchley:
That's why I have bees not chickens. I know of people who've kept bees 250 miles from home, visited twice a year, and got reasonable honey yields. I don't think you'd get away with that in these days of mites though. The longest I've been without seeing mine, apart from winter when thety might stay in their clusters for weeks without flying,  was two weeks last summer, when I was too ill to leave the house. It would be the height of the swarm season, with one colony already making preparations. Inevitably, it went, and I was lucky to get the swarm back.

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