Recent content by NFlaGator

>City Council will need to initiate the study for this municipal code change< Perhaps you can help get the ball rolling faster. Is there another city (in a somewhat close proximity to yours), that has changed their ordinance to allow chickens? If so, perhaps you could get a copy of the study...

I think the list is quite funny, (my family moved to the south over 30 years ago). While I am an educated individual, I can certainly relate to the items on that list. Thanks Sugar for giving me a good laugh to start my day. Ranchhand - Southerners are considered stupid and poorly educated only...

Interesting, I wonder if roosters of a certain breed crow more than others.

All very good rooster information. Thanks everyone.

ridgerunner - You wrote > the more prolific breeds tend to lay several days in a row< What is considered a prolific breed? What is the average life span (years) for chickens and do they produce eggs throughout or greatly slow in the later years? (newbie with lots of questions)

Newbie here. What are EE's?

All very useful info for a newbie like me. Thanks everyone.

Thanks all, for being so clear. I am in the coop design planning stage, so this will come in handy.

So this may be a stupid question, but at what age is a chicken considered fully feathered (or an adult), does it matter what breed?

Thanks for the hello's. Yes they have internet in Taylor Co., lol. I wouldn't have moved there otherwise (as I work from home via internet). I tell people I could live anywhere - but I gotta have internet. Actually considered Panama.

Greetings from Taylor County Florida (just north of Perry). I'm a newbie to the area and to raising chickens, so finding others near by would be AWESOME.

Greetings everyone. I joined a local Meetup.com group about raising chickens a few weeks ago (January 2011), but it seems the leader of the group was MIA before I ever got there. A young man at a Tally Tractor Supply Store said he learned a great deal from BYC and suggested I start here if I...