Hi Tony: You are in a ticklish position. If any of your neighbors complain Management has to respond. I don't know about your neighbors but usually there is one that's a horse's rear end. A word on chickens, in their natural state they are filthy critters. A clean, odor free coop takes a lot of work and planning. Noisy is a relative term. What is music to some is noise to others. A rooster at sunrise can be thrill the first time but soon gets old. Especially when sunrise in 4:AM and they are quite audible a mile away.. A coop is only half of a chicken habitat. They also need a run. The common rule is 10 sq ft per chicken, coop and run combine. Naturally colder climates require more coop than warn places. If your run is located on your expensive lawn there will be no grass in the run after 3 days. Chickens are natural roto-tillers .
I'm not usually this negative but it's best you know what you're asking for.
Ol' George
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "T" <tonyray@...> wrote:
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> Hi all, we just spent the day touring Davis, CA on a bicycle chicken coop tour and are completely sold on building a coop. As far as I know they are legal here in W. Sacramento, CA.
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> My concern is that we are renters and don't want to have to get "permission" to build a coop. We've been here six months and no one from the property management group has ever come out, but we do have ocassional repairman come out, for example a guy is coming next week to replace the window screens where we plan to build a coop.
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> I've already spent over $500 of my own money to buy lawn equipment and dirt to turn a backyard from 3 foot tall weeks to a nice lawn - and didn't ask permission. Is "don't ask, don't tell" the best policy.
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> I think the owners would be cool (she's a vet) but the property managers would be a hassle. I had to talk them into letting me have my dog which involved a $500 deposit.
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> We live on a corner and the area for the coop would have no neighbors on the other side of the fence and would be some distance from any houses. None of the coops we saw today had caused any problems with smell or noise.
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> Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated. thanks, Tony
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