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never too early to start changing bylaws :) happy to help if needed.

quite welcome :)

If you can fit them, a few small bushes in buried pots would be a nice start! if you cut the bottom of the pot and half bury it, you'll have a little chicken proof circle around it so they don't uproot it. Try haskap berries! They are very early to fruit (even before strawberries) and birds LOVE...

so they're fermented grapes/raisins?

that sounds so incredible. very special to see that!

I am sorry you've got through this, and your neighbours too. It's not fun to have those bad feelings from all parties in the neighbourhood. Since you are starting over, take the opportunity to change things for the good: 1 - rid the property of rats, please hire an exterminator. It's not...

I also worried about this too and monitored. I noticed the hens just occasionally will peck at a new tulip coming up, but spit it out. I would. be concerned if the poisons plants were in a contained run that they could get curious/bored in. But if they're out where they are walking around other...

There is a Siberian pea shrub that fits this, chickens like to eat the pods too. Also a weeping mulberry. but check your area as it both are invasive and prohibited in some parts of the USA

I had a chick do this and I know the pain, it's LOUD. and usually it was when she was kind of 'lost' and didn't know how to get back under the heat plate. I guided her back in and she was quiet and content.

hi there! Fellow Canadian :) I don't heat my coop at all, it's on the smaller side and I have a small flock. We did have some cold days -20ish but overall it doesn't get too unbearable here for my girls as long as the wind is kept off of them.. I am not sure what I would want in a heater that...

oh gosh, yes please make sure all poison is in locked boxes that pets etc cannot access.

im' so sorry she passed. you took good care of her <3

I usually scoop out my deep bedding in late March so I can have it sit on the garden for a month or two before planting. Around the same time I dig out a bunch of compost from the deep litter in the run and put it on my garden. Then I pour in some woodchips and the cycle begins again :)

might be a scam, there are so many on chicken groups

thanks! so far they are all good. my friend gets home tomororw so we will work on fortification!