I was also thinking maybe the way to get rid of the rats was to get more chickens in Evanston to attract them to properties, then set up a bunch of traps during the night, without the use of poison for obvious reasons, but then trap and kill them around the backyards where chickens are kept.
I could do it discreetly, yeah. We have a farm on the eat coast and I'm not unfamiliar with chicken slaughter but we've learned to love these babies as a family and have spent so many hours bonding with them. They're the sweetest things. I guess I'm just trying to come up with a way to keep them...
It's illegal to kill any roosters in my town, and I don't know a lot of people who want roosters in my area. I know I could probably keep a few more hens than the limit. I'm just sad that I'd have to get rid of an animal (or more than one, depending on sexing errors) for their gender, which is...
Hello,
I live in a chicago suburb and our town's rules on chickens are as follows:
-no roosters (no reason given)
-only 6 hens allowed
Obviously there's difficulties with both of those when ordering the minimum for chicks from hatcheries and sexing errors.
I've contacted the mayor to...