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Brunswick Maine Growth Zone Chicken Ordinance (does not affect rural areas) Are Chickens Allowed in Brunswick Yes Max Chickens Allowed 6 Females Roosters Allowed No Permit Required Yes Coop Restrictions Henhouse must be clean, at least 10 feet away from property lines, in the rear of...

Dover-Foxcroft Maine Chicken Ordinance Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed 6 Roosters Allowed No Permit Required Yes Coop Restrictions Yes, chickens must be kept in chicken pen at all times, and must be secured in the henhouse during non-daylight hours...

Let's see...where to begin. Here's a picture of me. Well, I'm 29 years old, married father to three great kids ages 12, 6, and 2. I live on the coast of Maine, about 20 minutes south of Bangor. Here are our barred rock chicks (we originally had 6, but two of them passed away) when they...

This is a test.....this is just to show silkiechicken how easy it is to create a BYC page from a forum thread posting. I'll be deleting this page after it's done. Here is a picture of my dog house converted into a coop. It too is heavier than 25 lbs....probably more like 100...but it is...

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!! Here is my attempt at making a homemade incubator. The design is based mainly on the Chick Chick bator that Miss Prissy made, along with the pill bottle vents used by the Gopher Bator. NOTE: This was built for function, not form! My motivation for building this came...