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I am so sorry about what happened at the city council meeting. Well, more like furious actually. For those of you who don't know, Cornelius is trying to draft an amendment to the city charter to make it impossible to own ducks or chickens, poultry or livestock of any kind in residential areas...

Not sure if this helps hedylaymore, but I have a couple tiny birdhouses around the property and a pair of swallows moved into one of them. They patrol above the yard like mini hang-gliders and chase off hawks. The hawks are actually terrified of them. Someone else in the neighborhood said...

My minis are pretty loud.

Thanks. I hope that's how it works out--the poor little guy deserves a good home with ducks that will love him. But despite being gorgeous, my Welsh doesn't lay eggs. So I'm definitely getting others who will behave more normally, and I WILL figure out a way to get Juliet to play nice with...

I've never seen anything like this, but I have had some setbacks this year with my flock and now have two Indian runner males and one Welsh harlequin female. I'm trying to rehome one of the males, but in the meantime, the female chases around the more timid male and gets jealous/angry anytime he...

Zodiac as a baby would fall asleep as soon as you picked him up. This is Orion. He's new, and he's terrified of people. Definitely my most timid duck. But he also will nuzzle you and let you stroke him if he's in the mood. ^ Zodiac's the only one I've raised from a baby, and he is the...

I'm actually surprised to find out that Cornelius doesn't already have an anti-rooster law in the suburbs. They have the "only three chickens per household" rule, which I find much more restricting. Pretty much everyone ignores it anyways, and I've never heard of anyone getting fined for...

Oh my gosh! Thanks! I bought a pair of Welsh Harlequin hens that were hatched in the spring, and was worried because they seem happy but don't lay. Everyone else I talked to seemed to think Harlequins should start laying 5 months in and I've been pestering other owners and feed store workers...

Signed it. Man that neighbor sounds awful. If he's calling in complaints when the rooster isn't even there, maybe he's hearing a different noise entirely and attributing it to the rooster. They should have given you more than 7 days for re-homing regardless. Good luck!

My Rouen just started coughing infrequently a few days ago. He shakes all over like he's choking sometimes. It makes me wonder if he ate something unnatural like a piece of plastic. He often plays around in the protected wetlands behind my house, and every once in a while I see soda lids or...

I used to live on a lake near the coast and played with the wild mallards that had grown tame from constant offerings of dried corn and fish. They even brought their ducklings up on our deck! Now I have a half acre on the wetlands in Cornelius and thought getting ducklings from the local feed...