Yesterday I stopped by Mrs. Hillbilly’s house to drop off some chard for her chickens. She started with 7 birds this spring and now she’s down to 5. One of the birds turned out to be a Roo. Luckily she was able to give him away to the guy she bought her chicken coop from.
And the other, well, she was eaten by a racoon early on.
These days Mrs. HB is averaging about 4 eggs a day. Which is a fair amount for a family of four. But when I asked her if she was planning on getting anymore chicks in the spring, she hesitated a bit. Yes, Mrs. HB would like a few more hens, he just doesn’t want to go through the whole process of raising baby chicks again.
And then a light bulb went off.
Since I miss keeping chickens so badly, what about if I raised a couple of chicks next spring {in our garage} for her until they were ready to be integrated into her flock?
After the chicks were big enough to go to Mrs. HB’s, I could simply stop by once a week and drop off my extra garden produce in exchange for lets say, a dozen eggs. Since I can’t {technically} keep chickens in my neighborhood, Mrs. HB could have the benefit of a few more eggs each week, plus she could have the larger hens she has been wanting to bulk up her flock.
It kinda sounds like a win-win deal to me.
And anyway… raising baby chicks in your garage is TOTALLY different then having a full grown flock of chickens and a chicken coop in your backyard, right?
I can’t imagine there’d be anything for the HOA to complain about because there wouldn’t be anything for the nosey Nellies to see as they walked by, right?
What do you think? Am I delusional? Can I do this?
~Mavis
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