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When I had chooks I said I will never be without them. Here I am a few years later with no chooks. 
I used to keep my chooks at the allotment and visited them every day, so they were tying to some extent. Holidays were a bit of a pain to organise.
The downsides for me where I live is , even though I have a reasonable sized garden, it isn't really paractical to allow them to roam freely
and I don't like the idea of shutting them up in a small area. Rats can be a problem, and if anyone finds a rat in the street they automatically assume its come about because of the person keeping hens. Whats more probable is that bird feeders have caused the rat problem, not the hens.
The positives are the eggs of course and the personality of each bird is different and a joy to behold.
I used to keep my chooks at the allotment and visited them every day, so they were tying to some extent. Holidays were a bit of a pain to organise.
The downsides for me where I live is , even though I have a reasonable sized garden, it isn't really paractical to allow them to roam freely
and I don't like the idea of shutting them up in a small area. Rats can be a problem, and if anyone finds a rat in the street they automatically assume its come about because of the person keeping hens. Whats more probable is that bird feeders have caused the rat problem, not the hens.
The positives are the eggs of course and the personality of each bird is different and a joy to behold.
"The problem with retirement is that you never get a day off"- Abe Lemons
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