My lavender silkie's head is molting (you can see the little pinfeathers coming back), but in the meantime, there are two really long feathers that make it look like she has eyebrows/antennae! Probably the best she's been able to see in a long time, though.
Has anyone else ever had anything...
Proud silkie mama with a selection of her seven babies. After having a hen hatch and raise the chicks herself, I don't think I can ever go back to doing it myself! Much easier outsourcing it. :)
..and it begins.
FRIDAY APRIL 24TH, 2009
Two Buff Orpingtons and one Silver-Laced Wyandotte, three days old.
[Lady Buffington, Dot, and Friend]
...and one of those BOs, all grown up:
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Recent additions to our little flock: two black Jersey Giants and one...
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Have you talked to your neighbors? They might not want a giant rat colony in their wood pile.. then again, they may not care. My parents in McKinleyville had a neighbor with a severely overgrown front yard. It was BAD. They were getting rats like crazy - one day my mom was talking...
You might want to call whoever you purchased him from and ask if they have any suggestions.. when I ended up with three roosters instead of three hens, the feed store took them back (and gave me a considerable amount of money for housing them so long). Of course, I think that was some sort of...
I had a broody Jersey Giant and basically, I just kept going out there whenever I had the chance and tossing her out into the yard and taking any eggs. Took a few days, but it was easy enough.
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Yes, exactly this.
When you say your neighborhood has an ordinance against them, do you mean an HOA? Submit an appeal, otherwise you are legally bound to the rules of the HOA.
Well, you're going to have to abide by what your HOA contract says. You signed it so you're legally bound to abide by it. That doesn't mean that you can't change it. I would say that just because you neighbors say that they don't mind you having chickens now won't create an issue in the...