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    My chicken's teeth fell out. Send help.

    My chicken's teeth fell out. Send help.
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    Any tips on dealing with minks?

    A Duke size 110 trap and any bucket or other similar object you can suspend it in without too much space edgewise.
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    Any tips on dealing with minks?

    A baby monitor on your birds at night (secured every night), a good 22lr rifle (or discreet equivalent such as a powerful airgun), and some conibear bucket sets should keep you afloat. Not to mention you may be able to turn some of the pelts for profit.
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    Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law

    I am familiar with the works of Mr. Swift. Thank you for your well crafted, civil, and scholarly response.
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    Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law

    Unfortunately, yes, but from the position of the code enforcement officer. I have never experienced this as the chicken owner.
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    Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law

    Not so fast: The OP apparently doesn't have enough land for one chicken. No warrant is needed for that for code enforcement. You do not know what you are talking about.
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    Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law

    If that were true, everyone would have privacy fences and animals in town and the town couldn't do a thing about it, rendering the codes void. But it is not true. I have worked in municipal code enforcement. There may be some preliminary expectation to knock and talk, but if there is still...
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    Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law

    The sound of clucking constitutes probable cause for code enforcement to come onto the property.
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    Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law

    Actually though... all of those are gray areas, at least where I'm from. There is no magistrate in his right mind who would issue a warrant for arrest because some crabby lady came in and said "MY NEIGHBOR FED MY CAT BACON GREASE!!!" Fertilizing someones grass technically is not vandalism here...
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    Let's Talk Nice About Our Roosters!

    I'm just kidding. I had a black australorp rooster who was very chill and very affectionate toward the hens. I only ever saw him become aggressive toward a cat. He was two years old and would still eat out of my hand, and if I got my hands on him I could hold him on his back and let my 1 year...
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    Let's Talk Nice About Our Roosters!

    If you don't want to see that side of him, castrate him.
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