I don't own chickens, nor do I plan to in the future, but I'll subscribe anyway to see updates on how your chickens are doing and for all the egg photos.

I have parrots which are the same as chickens but more manipulative. Subscribing.

Someone click on those links and let me know if they work. They don't look right for me.

I don't have chooks anymore but joining to get my chicken fix vicariously, until I move and get some again of course!

A band-mate and his wife raise chickens in their back yard. Will lurk with interest.

Yar, cool. We live in Los Angeles, Echo Park area, where everything grows on the water we stole from elsewhere in the state. We've got three at the moment, this past winter we had two murdered by a coyote (we forgot to lock the coop that night; I almost caught and strangled the coyote (I like them, but umm not in the coop (but I digress))), will get another pair this summer. We've had chickens for 10 years now. Survived disease plagues, murder, chickencide (years ago the flock decided they didn't like a particular runty one, and that was the end of her)...

We have a store-bought coop (had homemade ones, will again) which is very nice, and about 140 sq feet of fenced yard, containing a couple rugged trees and plants that survive the peck peck peck assault/hunt for bugs.

Our biggest problem is yard rats. Little things, not the scary New York subway kind. Population explosion every summer, our dogs like to observe them (they killed one once, studied it...).

They're pretty rugged and tolerant beings. Chicken culture is interesting. Recently one of ours has appointed herself rooster, pecks me when I come in to feed them etc -- draws blood if I'm not careful -- another one flattens out to be petted, they're all odd. One runs to the far corner when I come in, since the coyote event. They recycle all of our table scraps that dogs can't eat (onions, whatever) what they don't eat they scratch

We've moved their coop twice now, they turned a hard yellow clay soil fro, which an ancient asphalt topping was removed +15 years ago, into pretty loamy actual soil with worms etc. The previous area is now our garden.

We get an erratic dozen eggs a week, I want to increase that as we're in a small fenced compound with two families, not quite enough eggs right now. I tried threatening them with tales of beatings and deprivation, but they never listen. Kidding, kidding. I do make fun of them for not having hands.

We recently upped our dog count from three to five, the new boys are young and very active, and seem to keep the hawk(s) away, which helped deal with the rats. Hawks are flatly uninterested in seeing dogs or people.

Hard to imagine now NOT having chickens. They're completely ridiculous and great animals to have around.

Oh good, I’ve been missing this one, couldn’t subscribe fast enough.

I've been on reddit since the great digg migration ages ago and never saw anything about raising chickens. I buy 6 chickens and build a coop in my backyard and instantly see this community... the world is a strange place.

I guess I'm subscribing to learn about chicken facts now 🤷