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    Ended Official BYC Coop Page Contest #10

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/a-coop-ive-been-working-on.75830/
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    Welsummer Spotted Egg Gene

    I'm very curious about this topic too, not so much for that specific cross, but just for Welsummer roosters in general. I have replaced my RIR rooster with a Welsummer rooster who hatched last summer. That RIR was an A hole. I'm wondering now if the offspring from the Welsummer and a variety...
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    Is this ordinance unfair? I need advice!

    I'm not sure, I was working out of town a lot that Summer. I bet one of his farmer buddies from the VFW, or the Legion took them home though.
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    Is this ordinance unfair? I need advice!

    That he was. We lost him in 2010, When he was 96, and still had three little chickens.
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    Is this ordinance unfair? I need advice!

    I knew this old guy once who always had a great big garden in town. His whole backyard was a garden. Every Spring he'd get all of his plants pretty well established, then he'd go to the farm store and get three chicks. He'd raise them in the garden. It was a no chicken town, but he had a 6'...
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    Is this ordinance unfair? I need advice!

    It might not even be a bad idea to give newcomers a welcome basket, with some eggs, homemade jams, garden produce, a big smile and an offer to help, like if they need a hand occasionally, etc. Don't let them know that you're bribing them, just be nice enough that they may feel guilty for...
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    Is this ordinance unfair? I need advice!

    Very true, as soon as one belly-acher chimes in, it's all over. Well not completely, you're just back to 9 birds and a pig. At least you got away with it for a while - if you made it 29 years first, I'd call that a win. Hopefully, you've had success getting the rules changed by then. If...
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    Wyoming Unite!!!!

    Those hog nosed snakes will play possum, rolling over on their back and puffing up to look dead and bloated if they get cornered or too agitated. They stay like that quite a while too.
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    Is this ordinance unfair? I need advice!

    I wouldn't advocate breaking the law, or ordinances, or anything like that, but I do often. Not with my poultry or anything, I have 20 acres in the country with no ordinances. Let me explain, I'm a mason and around half of the work I do is in a small town nearby. They have a rule that you...
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    Calling all Dog owners!

    This is Scrappy, a Red Bone Coon Hound. He got his name from my grandkids and the dog I had before (who got too old) - Scooby Do. Scooby was sort of similar, in size and color, but he was a Chocolate Lab/Chessie cross. Scrappy Do is a little redder, but Scooby had a bit of Chessie wave in his...
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    Early morning attack, Please help!

    I'm so sorry for your poor girl. I wish you and her the best. I don't have any good advice, but it seems as you are already getting great advice. All I can do is hope this story has a happy ending, good luck.
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    Trapping thread

    I guess I could of been a little more clear on what I was thinking. Yes, you absolutely can catch a fox in a live trap, but if you can catch one out of twenty of them like that, I'd consider you extremely lucky.
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    Trapping thread

    The question is not so much about if you can get some as much as it is are you getting one out of twenty, or eight out of ten?
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    Trapping thread

    That's one way of looking at it and I don't disagree at all, but there is a big difference in a 'kill them all' mentality, and keeping over population under control. In wilderness areas, where there are no roads, farms, or houses, there are predators, but not as many as most people would...
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    Trapping thread

    To help cover your sent, boil your traps, or snares, and after they have cooled, take them from the water with hospitle type gloves and drop them in a plastic bag with a few apple slices. Also wash a change of clothing with no detergent and dry them outside on a clothes line. Don't put them on...
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