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    Indifferent councilmen- any advice?

    I agree. I would see how your neighbors feel about it. In my experience, it is not your immediate neighbors, but snooty people in the area which find the idea of chickens offensive. They don't understand that they are mostly pets, not farm animals. If you wanted to push for legal protection...
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    Can anyone tell me what kind of rooster I have

    I am also new at chickens. But since he looks like he's got a downward-sloping tail and a peacomb, I'd guess he could be a Cubalaya. Here they are on Feathersite: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/Cuba/BRKCuba.html
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    Tractor designs that are flush to fence?

    I really like that idea. I think it could be really good. Post pictures if you end up building it!
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    My vet is a monster

    You know, the best way to get revenge for this horse is to report that guy to the police, animal control, and the local media, and make sure he never works as a vet, or even owns horses, again. Did anyone take pictures of the horse? Send them to your local news channel or newspaper. They'll be...
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    Pullets acting a little crazy

    Maybe make sure there's nothing in there scaring them, like a rat or something... I'd be jumping around if there was a rat in my house.
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    Friends don't let friends....

    So cute! they look like they're wearing little helmets!! I want one!!
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    I am very unhappy with My Pet Chicken

    As in, it protects the hen's back from being injured by the rooster's feet. Just to clarify.
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    I am going to MURDER

    ... Or, maybe you could view him as Nature's way of teaching you how to build a better fence? You'll probably have to do that anyway, since if there's enough food in the area to support one, there's probably room for more...
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    Does anyone have wild chickens in their area?

    I'm living in Hawaii right now, too. On Oahu, there's a restaurant called Pizza Bob's, on the North Shore. I go there a lot, it's a great place. But, anyway, the parking lot is inhabited by a large colony of feral chickens who hang out by the dumpsters. I've wanted to go over there and look for...
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    GUINEAS

    When I was researching guineas, I found this website. It has a ton of information, and if you scroll down to the very bottom, there is an FAQ section that is also very helpful. Hope that helps. http://www.guineafowl.com/fritsfarm/guineas/
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    Eating Chicks?

    Eh, yeah, its a lot of work to raise a chicken to eat it, but I would think the result would be a lot tastier that a tiny little chick with hardly any meat on it... If I had chicks I didn't want, it would be more worth it to use them as fertilizer after they were killed- didn't the Native...
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    Animals are NOT Humans

    The topic of this thread made me think of a news story that was on a couple of days ago, not sure how many people saw it, and the details are a little fuzzy, but it just made me kind of think a little bit. The gist of it was, some people got arrested for having 800+ dogs in cages in one triple...
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    Hold head on ground with stick/pull up on legs--OK method?

    I know some places, such as supply stores on the internet, sell actual cones of plastic for the purposes of butchering chickens. Those might be cheaper than a traffic cone, unless there's some lying around. Then, yeah, I would imagine most of the blood could be caught in a large tub/bucket...
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    This is why we raise our own

    Hey hypnofrog, this is really off topic, but there are people who make workarounds so that you can use youtube with linux, among other programs. Just do a search in google for "youtube linux fix" or something. It takes a little patience to fix things sometimes, but, especially with things like...
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    Superior Farms

    Its possible they give visitors a dog and pony show- they only allow people in their best facilities, show them the best quality birds, etc. Only someone who works there could see the whole picture. I can't see how people could run a proper business by starving their birds and keeping them in...
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