Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Small business and shared resources questions

[S. Kashdan (skashdan]

I am glad to hear that there is no odor coming from the chicken coop. When I
lived near a chicken coop in the country a number of years ago, the coop was
kept quite clean, and the chickens ran around outside, but there was
something of an odor. Others have had similar experiences. I don't know if
the folks who cared for the chickens where I lived regularly scooped up the
waste and put it in the compost. Is that what keeps the odor down?
Sylvie Kashdan
skashdan [at] scn.org
Jackson Place Cohousing
800 Hiawatha Place South
Seattle, WA 98144
www.seattlecohousing.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "PattyMara Gourley" <pattymara [at] juno.com>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_Small business and shared resources questions

We do have a common chicken coop, no odor coming from it.  The coop has
been a
source of fun for all, except for the occasional coyote visit for a
midnight snack (which I find delightful, but the hens do not).  Only
recently have we acquired a rooster, who wandered in from parts unknown.
We compost much of our food scraps in the chicken yard, and add that to
our garden soil....and have a line item in our yearly HOA budget for
supplemental feed and coop repair.


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