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Ok, I am breathing again, thank you. And hey, what's up with a chicken hatching from a grocery store egg? Please hijack my thread to tell that one...please?

I made apple/carrot/spinach juice and put the pulp out around the pond...I juice the core, so the seeds were pulverized and mixed in...I just now read that they are toxic in small amounts! Help! I have 4 anconas and a rouen, all 8weeks old, and the pulp had the seeds of about 20 apples. Oh, I...

They are a few miles NW of Omaha, NE, about 230 miles from Kansas City, MO. They are 3 days old, and will be raised with goats for 6 months and trained as livestock guardians. They are going to come fully trained for only $100!!! We just reserved a female--we're going to pick her up around...

Hi! I have been SOOOOO sad since we got rid of our 22 chickens...neighbors were very nasty, and even though we had the law and the restrictions on our side, we gave away our chickens (to my best friend, so we still see them and get eggs), and sold our coop (for almost the cost of the materials...

My neighbors object to my chickens, and are becoming hateful and socially aggressive. In an effort to prevent my children from having to be exposed to the ugliness, I am getting rid of my chickens. My husband built a spectacular coop, complete with Pella picture window and outside-access nest...

I have an almost-2-year-old Anatolian/Maremma mix. They're both mountain flock guard dogs. Mine was raised with sheep and lived with chickens wandering around. She spent her first year and a half in a pasture guarding the sheep. She loves people and kept leaving the pasture to hang out on the...

So we have a weird situation. Our dog chewed through the poultry fence, so the chickens are VERY free range, wandering much of our 3 acres most of the day on warmer days. We got Sugar the Super Dog a doghouse inside the chicken yard, but she is a pasture dog and will not use it. So 2 chickens...

Quote: Thanks so much, everyone! DH has agreed to make a new walkboard from a 2X4 so my sweet doggie can't get in. We're also going to just put a 2x4 down the center of the window on the inside so chickens can get through but not doggies! DH also mentioned that he thinks we had a chicken lay...

maybe i can put heavy black cloth across the nest boxes, with just a 10X10 in opening at the top of the little gangplank that leads up to them. That way it's too dark for the dog to see and too small for her to fit? maybe I'll need to use some wood--a 2x4--at the opening?

I got a one-and-a-half year old Maremma Sheepdog/Anatolian Shepherd cross 2 weeks ago. She lives in our chicken yard, which is about half an acre. She is walked 3X a day--once in the morning for an hour, once during the mid day for about 20 minutes, and again at dark for 30-45 min. She was...

I'm going to put it out right now....thanks...

So we have 22 birdies, and we've gotten an egg or two a day for a few days now...but the last 2 eggs were PECKED!! Just enough to break the shell, but no eating. Just a peck-hole in the shell. HELP! How do I stop it? How can I make them behave!?!?!?? ETA: I just saw today's pecked egg. She...

I might be mistaken, but I think the fact is there are only 2 color eggs: white and blue. Brown and white eggshells are both white on the inside. Pink, green and blue eggshells are all blue on the inside. If your pinks are blue inside, that would be a true pink egg. If they are white, that's a...

We found an egg in the morning and one in the evening yesterday! Both brown, but Lord knows who's responsible!! So last evening before dark, I put straw in the nest boxes and removed the blanket that was covering them. I left the chickens in until 10 this morning. When I went down to check, no...

Quote: I love your SPUNK! We live very much in the country--there is a farm on both ends of the subdivision (horses, no less). There are very very few restrictions--no boats/trailers/broken down cars parked for more than 30 days, no pigs, no cattle. Pretty much anything else goes. Another...

Quote: that's what i call it, but the deal is: i was here first--before all of 'em!

Quote: you don't know how seriously i've considered building a 10'x30' enclosure and getting a peacock....

My restrictions state that the subdivision "exists for residential mini-farm, mini-ranch living." The only animals restricted are "hogs, cattle, commercial poultry, commercial dog kennels." At last years' HOA meeting, I spoke up to clarify that I would be getting chickens and that I am within my...

You have been reading my mind! Thanks for the suggestion and the picture (lovely landscaping, BTW). I am going to take some divisions from my nice neighbor's garden and plant them along the corner! I have another very extremely over the top nasty neighbor to the rear of my property (she just...