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Posted by Lara on March 27, 2003 at 11:00:25:
In Reply to: Chicken questions posted by msneat13 on March 20, 2003 at 00:09:26:
As far as odor goes, I don't consider it a problem at all. I can't smell my chickens from outside the coop. Even in the coop, the smell is not bad, mostly you smell the pine shavings, not so much the birds. I use a thick layer of pine shavings on the floor and turn it over and add more whenever it starts to get a little mushy. Sometimes I add a little cedar shavings for the smell, too. I change the bedding completely only a couple times a year. So long as you keep the coop reasonably clean and it doesn't become damp, you won't have a problem with odor.
About noise, the noise of the hens shouldn't bother your neighbors. It's not very loud and doesn't carry well. Roosters are a different matter, they will be heard! It will depend a little on your neighbors; some people actually appreciate the rooster calls in the morning. It helps if the coop and your neighbors' homes are well-insulated! I can barely hear my roosters from indoors, with the coop about 150 feet from the house. Some roosters are quieter than others, too; I've had a couple that didn't crow much at all, and others that started at 4 in the morning and didn't stop until dark. If your neighbors start complaining, you may have to part with the roosters, but there's no reason you couldn't still keep hens.
It's unfortunate you couldn't get a permit to build your coop. That seems unfair. Maybe you could apply for a permit for a garden shed and then just happen to put chickens in your new garden shed? :-) LOL, I'm not really sure how those things work. My chickens live in a garden shed that's been there since I moved in! :-)
Good luck!
- Lara
:How hard is it to keep the odor of keeping chickens down? Do you have a special routine? I have read that as long as the dropping are dry and cleaned up there should not be a problem. I know roosters are noisey and I realize the hens will cluck and bock but is it super loud? The reason I am asking is when have no laws banning chickens but we do have a nuisance law with foul odor and noise. So far I went through the correct legal channels with building my coop; that is all I have to have a permit for is the building of the coop and they turned me down. Not on the chickens but on the building of the coop. From what I have read, people keep chickens in side suburban areas all the time and I have even found the zoning laws for it on the internet and which cities say no chickens at all. I am still getting the chickens and still building the coop only because the reason one council member said no was because he did not like chickens. Can you believe that? Oh well....I will let you know how it goes from here.