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From: Audrey Watson (audrey![]() |
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:13:23 -0700 (PDT) |
I'm not sure what you mean by chicken club, but a subset of people at Winslow Cohousing are raising chickens. there is a small area of the orchard that is has a coop, and a movable fence, and most everyone in the community enjoys visiting them. there are 7 families, one for each day of the week, and they share the cost of the feed and the supplies, and then they get the eggs for the day of the week that they do the feeding (and letting in and out of the coop). I don't remember the startup costs, I think mostly the coop was built out of recycled materials, and the chicken group split the cost of the fencing. By moving the fence, the chickens are intended to eat all the bugs at the bottom of the trees, and fertilize different areas. the biggest problem is that some chickens like to escape and then the gardeners get mad because they eat young plants in the garden. The biggest escapers have been exiled (or executed). (we also don't keep any roosters, they are too noisy for our in-town location).
--audrey watson winslow cohousing bainbridge island, wa
------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:11:33 -0400 From: "Kira Jewett" <kirafiddle [at] gmail.com> Subject: [C-L]_ Chicken clubs? To: cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Message-ID: <1c2bc23a0806091211h4a0c3083red57ee5e191fe3a [at] mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi fellow cohousers, We are starting a chicken club here at Rocky Hill Cohousing, and are wondering how other folks have handled this. Only some of us want to be part of it. How do people pay in or out? What about folks who want to join later, after big startup costs have been paid? Policies for non-members to occasionally participate? Any wisdom welcome - thanks!!
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