From the September 1997 issue of

Bee Tidings is a cooperative publication of the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension and the Nebraska Honey Producer's Association.

Minimum area required: Any lot can have one hive, but homeowners are limited to one hive for every 1,500 square feet.

Raising Backyard Chickens - How Much Room?

"When you consider the tiny space battery hens make do with, you realise that hens do not need a lot of room but we want to give them as good a standard of living as possible.

Hens don't require a lot of room for sleeping so as a rule of thumb, a house just 3 feet by 2 feet will accommodate 4 hens comfortably, possibly 6 smaller hens.

For a run they need about 6 feet by 3 feet for 4 hens. Obviously if you can let them run further and scratch about naturally then that's great."