Recent content by guignol

a very old thread but to add for future reference : magpies in europe and america are the same birds and are protected on neither side of the atlantic; when i was a boy in california there was even a 10c bounty on them like for crows. they will not only try to get your eggs, they will get your...

Quote: think of it this way: you're holding all the cards! 35 bucks a bird or it's curtains for rover. it depends on your area. In most places, as long as the dog stays home AC isn't going to confiscate the dog over one occurrence. but this is the third time this dog has been in her chickens!

thank you for the advice. i'm always hesitant to start a thread because there are already so many, but i realize you're right; this question is different enough to merit one, and i have already searched enough to think i'm not creating a doppelganger..

does this rock or what? it's like a ken kesey koop!

Quote: i agree absolutely. another quote from claude lévi-strauss: "the wise man isn't the one that finds the right answers, but the one who asks the right questions". seeing the very rich thread it started, i'd say uncle marc's was one of these right questions, ergo...

i take a special satisfaction in using recycled materials in all my projects. in fact the small coop i just built is made with scraps left over from other things i had puttered together... using mostly found materials already. so it's like double recycling! i have a cellar workshop full of odds...

instead of starting a new thread for my question, this seems to be a fitting place for it: i just read in a magazine article that you should avoid having just two chickens because they'll fight. the chickens we'll be getting will be "adopted" from an egg farm (they get rid of their chickens...

thatnks for the welcome. i've been looking around BYC a couple of weeks now but finally came to the forum to ask some questions... which by following the standard advice "search first, ask questions later" i've already had answered... except one: a magazine article i just read says you should...

Quote: For sure! I would call animal control ASAP. I would be boiling with anger! think of it this way: you're holding all the cards! 35 bucks a bird or it's curtains for rover.

if you've seen this hawk once, he's already seen your chickens a hundred times! the main reason they haven't been attacked is more a question of style than size: accipiter cooperii (that's the fellow) tends to attack on the wing, and the narrowness of your run doesn't appeal to him at all. most...

hello, i'm an american living in lyon, france for 20 years and we've decided to start keeping some chickens. only a couple as we only have a small urban backyard, and the real impetus is not to turn poultry farmer but just to take in a couple of what are called here poules de reforme: layers...

Quote: Actually, in Texas, it is the owner of the animal that has the responsibility to keep that animal on the property, not the property owner's responsibility to keep animals off. It's an old livestock law that has been on the books for ages. If the animal in question can be owned, be it a...