For quite awhile boyfriend has been teasing me that he was going to build me a chicken coop in the backyard.
Over the long 4th of July weekend we visited his friends in S. GA and I got to see first hand what he had in mind.
Of course they have much more land then we do considering we live in the middle of a city. But keeping chickens in urban cities is becoming popular. A friend of mine at work has a few chickens, and a lady I know one neighborhood over has some too.
One of my first city girl questions was how do you get the eggs out? Turns out its easy. They built a box on the back of the coop with “nests.”
They swing the door open and there are the eggs.
Another of their friends down the road has chickens too but they were producing so many eggs that they gave some of the hens away. This group of chickens is laying about a dozen eggs a day. They have a large close family they share the eggs with.
Part of taking care of the chickens is to let them out after work/school in the afternoon. And even though they have a large piece of property to roam they stay around the coop.
I asked how they get them back in but it turns out that at dusk the chickens make their way back into the coop on their own.
So do I want a small chicken house in my backyard? I’d love the eggs but I think I will stick with the grocery store for now.
