Any of you baws have a chicken coop or chickens?

They eat. They shite. They make a frick ton of noise.

I have a few hens and a rooster. What do you wana know

My mom has some. It works out great, she deals with the nasty bastards and we get fresh eggs.

Seriously though, they're okay if you are set up for it. They are like a garbage disposal. They eat leftovers as much as they eat hen scratch.

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They make a frick ton of noise.

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Roosters do but hens don't really.

Chickens are very simple to raise. Have them a coop to roost in, boxes to lay in... and a run (dog kennels are easiest to get this done) I would have wire mesh over the top to keep out coons, owls, opossum at night. After they have been in the pen a week or so you can let them out during they day... they will always return to their roost at night. Shut gate at dark. Feed them laying pellets, as well as left over veggies and fruits. They lay eggs pretty much every day, so keep those picked up and fresh water about once or so a week.

I used to raise 9 hens and a rooster. Mostly Rhode Island Reds. I would suggest those if you were to raise them. I also had some White Leghorns that are egg laying machines. I had a few other breeds but the RIR cant be beat.

You know why a chicken coop only has 2 doors?

If it had 4 doors it'd be a chicken sedan

When you get yourself some chickens to raise and later on you decide to add to your flock, always remember that chickens are very territorial especially when they are cooped up. If you add any new chickens to the coop, the existing ones will attack the newer ones (pecking order). I built a little side coop (new chickens) to my main coop to help with the transition. I let the new chickens stay in sight of the older ones for a couple of weeks, that way the older ones got use to seeing them. Whenever I let the newer ones into the main coop the older ones didn't give them too much of a hard time.

i have had good luck adding at night. They wake up in the morning like nothing changed