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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Newbie-to-be lurker here, but I just bought a "yard bird" (as DH calls it) from a neighbor and she recommends using an oven bag and roasting the bird at low temp for a long time (like 250 degrees for 5 hours). The oven bag apparently keeps it from drying out. I'm not an oven-bag type, so I...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Soon-to-be-newbie here... (still scheming, er, planning....) All this coyote talk has me worried that my setup will not work out well for the long haul, or for the chickens... We live near a wash (about a block up the road) and our backyard faces a dead end street that ends at the wash. I've...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    I'm also trying to read/catch up on the local thread here. Yes, I'm already trying to figure out irrigation so we have automatic watering and then we can also hook up misters in the summer to keep things cooler. And frozen water bottles.... And I'm hoping some native bushes will be safe to put...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    We're in the desert, so no grass and few leaves, but we have lizards and we'll get worms/grubs once the compost is going, crickets and grasshoppers this time of year, lots of ants, roaches in summertime and various types of beetles. Not sure if chickens eat all that or not, but I guess we'll...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Thank you, lazy gardener! I didn't think about deep mulch in the un-gardened areas. So if I can't meet their nutritional needs with just garden and foraging for bugs, how do I know how much more food they need? Just dump FF in there and keep it up til they stop eating it? Is there a guideline...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Question for the desert dwellers/no lawn folks here... Is it possible to let your chickens forage in a suburban (ie smallish) back yard and not need to supplement much if any feed? Just wondering if it's possible to grow/salvage the bulk of their food and let them forage their own garden...
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    The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

    Newbie question here.... I actually don't have chickens yet. I've been planning and scheming to get DH on board for a LONG time and now we are at the planning stage of putting in a garden AND a chicken coop.... I want the chickens to be able to forage in our yard while protecting the main...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Mama Hen Chris - I'm so sorry about Millie. Mahonri - Get well soon! AZKat - Have you ever tried baking them? I keep seeing it on Pinterest but haven't tried it yet. Since I don't have a pressure-anything-er (YET) I'm curious if baking was one of the failed experiments you tried...
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    Arizona Chickens

    How awful. I hope they can help him.
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    County says Yes "HOA" says No WWYD?

    Well, I did manage to find what I think is a complete document. The neighborhood was built in "phases" and each phase has its own link to CCRs on the website. Some of the other areas of the neighborhood appear to have different CCRs (i.e., none available) but our area and the one built right...
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    County says Yes "HOA" says No WWYD?

    Yes, it's exactly that. There are countless "violations" of the CCRs running rampant in the neighborhood, so it's easy to see just how lax they are. As long as you're not hurting anyone, you're not wrong. I'm good with that. I'm kind of a mix between hard line rule-follower and anti-regulation...
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    County says Yes "HOA" says No WWYD?

    I just brought it to hubby's attention, and he said, "Yeah, and it also disallows detached buildings like sheds." We JUST built a shed in our back yard for storage. Nearly everyone else in the area has one, too. He had gone to an HOA meeting back in the winter time, just to see what there was to...
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    County says Yes "HOA" says No WWYD?

    There is no more legible copy available. We asked when we bought the house (from a realtor who actually owned a house in this neighborhood and was the original owner of her home -- even she didn't have an original copy from when she bought her house to share with us). We asked when we met the...
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    County says Yes "HOA" says No WWYD?

    Our house is 30+ years old, in a subdivision with an optional HOA. (Optional participation, fees are $5/year or something silly like that.) When we bought the house 10 years ago, we asked for the CCRs and got a copy of a fax of a copy made in 1970. It was almost completely illegible. We are...
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    Arizona Chickens

    LOL. I've been plotting the same, or at least I was til I saw pics of someone's setup online while researching the how to's -- GROSS!! I don't think I can handle that. But earthworms might find themselves residing under the sink someplace.... I can only imagine being a guest in someone's house...
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