One of the first questions or variation of question is: Where do you live that you can have chickens?!
The answer: They live in our backyard. We live in a subdivision. We don't even have 1 acre of land!
The next question normally is: Don't they mess up your yard?
Answer: Not any more than the dog does.
Here's our backyard:
Here's how close we are to our direct neighbor...
And our neighbor behind us:
Subject topic #2: Do they mess up our yard? Not really. Since we have a chicken tractor, we can pick it up and move it around the yard every so often. We chose Saturday. We'd like to move it more often, but it takes two adults to carry it. In this picture, the numbers represent the order of placement. Chronologically, we had it in the first spot pictured (indicated by #1). And so on... There is a patch of dead grass and visible dirt, but that's from the play set that was recently moved.
This is a closer view, without the numbers. You can see how the grass is greener from the, ahem, raw fertilizer. For full disclosure purposes- the little dirt patch here is from the chickens.
Where are the chickens now? Under a tree in the shade. July is the magic egg month for them and if it's too hot that can delay egg production (or so I read). And we wouldn't want that!
