I occasionally watch my neighbors' chickens when they're out of town and I love it! There was one incident of something getting in (lost 2 that time) and another time they got out but I believe all came back... But considering that's all the chicken drama for 4 years, not too bad!

I think that a lot of our other neighbors have no clue the chickens are even back there.

I can occasionally hear them clucking from my house, but it's not disruptive or disturbing by any means. I think it's so cool to be able to hear both the T announcing "Red Line, North Shore" and chickens from my yard. Oh, Beechview.