My neighbor, three houses over, has chickens. They often roam free and end up coming to visit. They are what I think of when I think, chickens, standard big birds.
My cousin lives in a little house on a lake, and she has four chickens. She's had them for two years now, and they are still small. Less than half the size of my neighbors chickens. They produce smaller eggs too, but my cousin has no problem cooking with them. She says, she never buys eggs anymore. Her basement is a walkout, and has a deck above. She has her chickens under that decking area, and as the steps from the deck are on the side where her neighbor is, no one can see the chickens. She had her coop built for her by a local woodworker, and it has wheels on the bottom, so she can roll it around, and roll it out into her side yard on good weather days.
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