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Posting an introduction as instructed. I don't have any chickens. I like chickens. I used to have chickens. I know how to treat them well. Now I live next to very heavy traffic and have concerns about chickens stirring up traffic dust. I would also need a breed or breeds that is ok with only 100+ square feet of space per chicken, for a total of 3-4 chickens in only around 500 square feet! They also need to be ok with the noise from heavy traffic! I could put up a 4' fence. It would still let ground-shaking loud noises through. I want to raise chickens even though I don't eat enough eggs for it to be cost effective because there's not enough yard eggs in the world and they make good pets. My climate is mild. No snow. Some winter rain, some hot summer days.

Questions:
  • How to prevent chickens stirring up heavy pollution on a tight budget.
  • Which breeds don't spook?
  • Which breeds are excellent for confinement?
  • Do I have to get these breeds as chicks? I'd rather get pullets. I've raised chicks before and I don't want to if I don't have to because I don't have the equipment and I don't like shopping. The local farm store has pullets but only as white leghorns. I don't want white leghorns unless there is a compelling reason to get white leghorns. There's not much on my local Craigslist and I don't use social media. UPDATE: the point of this question was, where do I get pullets?
  • Have they bred a chicken that doesn't poop yet? ;)
Any advice is welcome. I hope I did this right!
 
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bwaaack said:
Posting an introduction as instructed. I don't have any chickens. I like chickens. I used to have chickens. I know how to treat them well. Now I live next to very heavy traffic and have concerns about chickens stirring up traffic dust. I would also need a breed or breeds that is ok with only 100+ square feet of space per chicken, for a total of 3-4 chickens in only around 500 square feet! They also need to be ok with the noise from heavy traffic! I could put up a 4' fence. It would still let ground-shaking loud noises through. I want to raise chickens even though I don't eat enough eggs for it to be cost effective because there's not enough yard eggs in the world and they make good pets. My climate is mild. No snow. Some winter rain, some hot summer days.

Questions:
  • How to prevent chickens stirring up heavy pollution on a tight budget.
  • Which breeds don't spook?
  • Which breeds are excellent for confinement?
  • Do I have to get these breeds as chicks? I'd rather get pullets. I've raised chicks before and I don't want to if I don't have to because I don't have the equipment and I don't like shopping. The local farm store has pullets but only as white leghorns. I don't want white leghorns unless there is a compelling reason to get white leghorns. There's not much on my local Craigslist and I don't use social media.
  • Have they bred a chicken that doesn't poop yet? ;)
Any advice is welcome. I hope I did this right!
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Hi! Welcome to BYC! Theres lots of articles on chicken keeping that could be really helpful for you.

Barred rocks, Orpingtons, Rhode island reds, silkies, australorps and Easter eggers are good docile chickens that shouldn't scare easily. If you don't want them to fly away, a heavier breed would be best as they cannot fly very well, but they might not do so well in a small space. Docile breeds are prone to bullying in inter-breed flocks.

As long as you give them the right amount of space, and plenty of things to do, they should be fine with confinement.

There is no need to get them as chicks! You can buy point of lay hens, or any age you want. Do you want cockerels? If you do, you should buy an all flock food, and give them they option of oyster shell, or crushed eggshells.

Hope this helps! :)
 
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Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.

I wouldn't worry about the chickens scratching up dust. The traffic will do that.
If you put up a 4' fence, do not have a solid top rail as that will permit the chickens to just jump up to the top rail and over. Most fences have solid top rails to make them sturdy. You would need to put up an extension of chicken wire so the birds had no place to land.
Most heavier breeds would be fine with the level of confinement you are describing. Australorp, PBR, Wyandottes, Wellies, etc.
 

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