chickens

[mimififi]

Does anyone know if you are allowed to keep chickens on an allotment?

many thanks
mimi

[spudqueen]

Unless the allotment is very close to where you live you may find it a bit of a bind going down every morning to let them out of the hen house and going back every evening before dark (which is pretty early in the winter and can be 10 or later in the summer) to put them away for the night.

[shaun_04]

I know someone who does just that, no problem. Also, I think that you are allowed to keep anything as a "pet" just as long as you take care of them.

[allotment10]

like zacsmaster says you need to ask the council or whoever actually runs the site, we're not allowed to but one year a chap took over one further down from us and had chickens, rabbits & a couple of geese! the geese mysteriously disappeared after a few weeks (never asked what he'd done with them!) but one morning went up mine and half the chickens and rabbits were lying around on my allotment half eaten & it was a horrible sight! obviously the foxes had managed to get into the pens & had a feast. so if you are allowed, security for them must be a priority, (urgh! even now when i think back to seeing them that morning it makes me shudder :-(