Recent content by Josh_Manors

The ordinance never defines what is considered an agricultural animal .?? Is it possible to prove that they are just pets and not agricultural??

Thanks for posting the code for Coconut Creek. I've read it and thought as long as my girls were not roaming free I was ok. ???? (A) It shall be unlawful for any person owning any agricultural farm animal to permit, either willfully or through failure to exercise due care, the animal to...

I live in Coconut Creek FL and have 2 Easter Eggers hens that I've had since they were 2 days old. Today code enforcement informed me that due to an anonymous complaint I would have to get rid of my girls. I really can't find anything in the codes that restricts me from having them first off...

The first time I busted my girls getting feather picked was just after they had gone into roost and it wasn't completely dark yet. You could definitly try some rearranging of the roosts. The second time I busted my feather picker was when my girls were out foraging around in the yard. Just keep...

Absolutely right! I tried for weeks and spent a lot of money on all the tips and tricks...in the end the only thing that worked was permanetly separating the culprit. Hated to do it but now the fluffy butts are back and no more problems.

The exact same thing happened to two of my 3 girls just like you literallly overnight. After two trips to the vet it was still a complete mystery until the vet suggested that I separate the two with bald butts from the one that was still normal. Turns out that while sitting on the perch at night...

Looking to buy Serama pullets or hens in or around the S. FL area. I will be giving them a great home! Thanks.

It sounds like the problem that I was having with 2 of my 3 girls about a month ago. I posted a picture of the problem here if you could pull it up and see if it looks like the same. It cost a good size vet bill with all the blood work, throat cultures, and test on stool samples, and nothing was...

I live in S. FL and have been hunting good quality Seramas hens for a long time...

Beautiful coop!!! What type of sand is that inside your run?

I have 3 six month old hens (no roosters) and two of them suddenly lost feathers around the vent with some blood present in the bald area, the third hen was perfectly fine. I took them to the vet and had blood, throat, and fecal cultures done and everything was normal, the vet also told me that...

If you find an answer to your feather plunking please post it. In the last 3 days I've had 2 hens with the exact same problem, and it just started happening over night. I spoke with a bird vet on the the phone about my hens and he was sure that it was caused by a bacterial infection that would...

Can't find any bugs on her??? Will Vicks burn the wound?

She just turned 5 1/2 months old, not sure when they get their first molt???

I have 3 EE hens and today one of them is suddenly lacking feathers around her rump??? She was perfectly fine yesterday and the other 2 are still ok. There are no feathers on the ground or in the coop so it's a complete mystery as to what happened over night. I did a complete clean out of all...