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Our neighborhood convenants from 1955 have never been amended and we don't have an active neighborhood association. That covenant states that poultry can be raised for our personal use only (no egg-selling or some such). Now the covenant and the city ordinance says that we can't be a nuisance, so we'll have to be careful.

Steve was wanting to raise about 15-25 meat chickens. These chickens would be enclosed in a large tractor...that means, they would have a better quality of life than store bought, but would still be rather restricted. Fresh grass (the tractor is moved daily), nice bugs, special treats...but a limit on space. Too much exersize makes a chicken tough.

These chickens would be enclosed for a total of 8 weeks, then we would box them up and haul them to a processor.

This is the chicken tractor we're looking at building...although I would make mine nicer...this one looks a bit thrown together, imo. This 8x9' tractor is actually big enough for 50-75 broilers...but the quality of life goes down with that many chickens in that small a space. Ours would at most hold 25...they would have a pretty comfortable time.