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One of the reasons we live in a “rural neighborhood” zoned area with no HOAs within miles.

Firearms and chickens on the property are what we do up here.

And lots of us have serious gardens.

BTW, we did chickens long before egg prices went up.

When I was a kid, something like 50 years ago, there was a family that lived
about a half mile from us that raised chickens. We, I and my parents,
lived in the suburban part of town, where I’m assuming chickens were
forbidden, even back then.

But this family lived on the other side of a narrow strip of woods on a road
that was considered by the suburban snobs to be the ‘poor’ part of town.
They had a coop for the chickens, but they were always running around in the woods.
The chickens seemed to thrive there.

We have had chickens and pigeons for about 25 years. With both we have had many varieties. About 3 years ago we get rid of all of our chickens but still have homers. Sue has been talking about getting some chickens for quite a while. First we had to have 7 trees removed from the area where we keep our birds. That was completed last October. So then we decided to buy a ready made chicken coop, all of our lofts I made but I’m getting lazy in my old age and we wanted a coop with nest boxes on the outside. So we ordered a 5 x 8 in November it was delivered a couple weeks ago. Nice building. Yesterday I had a guy come over to give me a quote on some fencing, we are going with 3 split rail with wielded metal on the inside and 3 electric wires on the outside. It’s probably going to be June before we are ready for chickens. Total cost of this upgrade will be north of $10K. I want it to look “nice”. But suddenly $5.00 eggs don’t look so bad! It’s a hobby.

I live in the suburbs, a condo. My dental hygenist has chickens. She keeps a couple cats around to help manage the rats around her chicken coop.

So, do all chicken coops attract rats? I hope not.