Posts by Zach123

"Subsequent to the adoption of the 2011 LDC and the Official Zoning Map, an inadvertent error was identified in the LDC that extended the allowance for non-commercial agricultural activities to all properties zoned NC or NI, clearly in...

Putting them in there by hand a few nights and shutting the door will help them learn where "home" is. My first chickens would try to roost on ME when I would go in there to put them to bed lol. After a while, all you will have to do...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lealonna      Thank you so very much for your service!     Quote: Originally Posted by redhen  And thanks so much.....

Quote: Originally Posted by redhen  I agree.. its frustrating. Are you a soldier?     I did 4 years active duty in the U.S. Army, and have been out for about 10 months and am in the process of...

Glad to know I have to be a millionaire to make a buck, and that ordinary citizens are the only ones held accountable for their actions, no matter how benign. This is not the America I want to live in and it makes me exceptionally sad.

Have you thought about a tripod? Even a lot of P&S have the female screw in at the bottom so they can be attached to one. Baisically, any camera you are comfortable with is the one I would reccomend. It doesn;t matter if the camera...

Yeah, just because her area has a problem, doesn't put your chicks at any extra risk to roam about your land. Cocci is spread many ways, whether its from a nasty brooder or coop, or, in some unfortunate cases, just a bad location. You...

My knee jerck reaction is "boy" but I could be wrong. I thought for sure my SLW was a boy for weeks until it feathered out compleatly and it laid eggs. Do the saddle feathers look round or pointy? On a side note, that is one fast...

Some people attribute feather growth to sex. Slow feathering birds = cockerals and fast feathing brids = pullets. I don't buy this, and this meathod has been proven wrong just as often as its proven right.   Think of...

Were the chicks outside, I.E. being raised by a hen or where they inside in a brooder? If they were inside in a brooder they were probably not exposed to the strain of cocci on her farm at all, and thus, have no more chance of...