I doubt I will actually do this, but wanted some input, encouragement and/or discouragement based on experience
Backyard Chickens
This is a picture of my friend Eric’s backyard chicken coop. He lives in California, somewhere Napa-ish so yes, a totally different climate than we have.
But I understand that it is now legal to keep chickens in the city limits of Duluth. This being PDD, and so many of you being earthy, artsy back-to-the-landers, I assume that someone has looked into doing this.
Here are my concerns: 1) ease of use (Eric has an actual coop and fenced in area which I do not have, but I have heard that there are “mobile” fences that can be moved each day)
2) Safety/predation danger. Although I am smack dab in the middle of the city, we do have live skunks and other varmints on the loose nearby, as well as a generous collection of feral cats, but don’t go all judging the Hillside on the one, I am sure that mile for mile hermantown has more of those than we do.
3) How hard is it to keep them healthy and alive? I’m told they are good at maintaining grass for you and just eat bugs, etc, but is this really true. Also, are they susceptible to disease, etc
4) How hard is this really
