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This is something really new to me. Does anyone know what is this and if it's bad? It's long and hard-ish. I tried squishing it.

1. My other neighbor, who has been here for decades, with three roosters says it is legal. We live in an unincorporated area, so even if roosters are not allowed within the city proper, the ordinance won't apply. For noise times, I keep him in the dark from sunset to 10-10:30a. Lately, I've...

2nd update: Complaining neighbor wants me to get rid of my silkie roo by this weekend. I offered to put the silkie in a back shed or try a no crow collar (wish I didn't have to), and he said it doesn't matter of the crow is muffled or less frequent because it annoys him and he and his wife...

My Polish took about 8 months to lay her first egg. RIP PomPom

Yeah, one of the feet was initially worse than the other. I also still have the Vetricyn to spray on. She's been tolerant of the treatment so far and eats the dried mealworms during the Epsom salt soak. Even ate some after I removed the really dark scab. She's almost as heavy as my light Brahma.

Thanks! They're both taken at the same time - one of each foot. Her feet also don't feel hot.

They're both taken yesterday-one of each foot.

D: no one knows?

This is my first time dealing with bumblefoot on my Easter Egger's feet, so I'm not sure if it's healing ok. There hasn't been the dark scab for this and the last 3 days checked. However, the feet pads are still pink.

An update about the roosters: The complaining neighbor said we get to keep one rooster each. He's actually a nice neighbor. The other day we wanted hello to each other. I will have to figure out which rooster to keep as I think 2-3 of the silkie's children are males. One already started to...

I don't know if he eats eggs, as during a neighborhood shindig, the neighbor with 16 chickens told everyone he always has too many eggs and is trying to give them away. In the city, there can be muscle cars, loud techies, etc. As an update, he said we can keep one rooster, but we already only...

There's nothing much I can do about the day crowing, although hopefully he will crow less once he's integrated with the standard hens. He has 7 two month old kids, so we'll likely have too many roosters anyway. It's hard to rehome, and putting him in a shelter is a guaranteed euthanasia. My...

Technically, the houses here are zoned residential, although the small town is not an incorporated area. Compared to the area's proximity to the city, it's definitely more country. It's more like a bunch of hobby and mini farms. A lot of people here own livestock guardian dogs (like my Great...

It is about 6:30a here. So my partner opened the window again last night. I could barely hear my neighbor's roosters crowing and NOT my silkie at 6:00a. His call is distinct from the neighbor's roosters. They don't have silkies. Here is the thing. I live right next to the neighbor with...

Ok. I let the silkie rooster out at 8:45a. after eating some breakfast, he started crowing at 9am. I tested closing my windows and his crowing isn't too loud. The complaining neighbor has his windows open and don't understand why he can't close it during the crowing.