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    Australorp Pics WANTED

    This is a picture of my girls in late winter last year. Absolutely love them!!
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    HELP! My chickens are being evicted!

    Ask for evidence? She admits to having hens Portland Has A LAW that allows hens, her town regardless of size does not. How can OP be right, when she admits to knowing that chickens are not allowed, its the LAW. Just or unjust, it is the law so until it is changed, she is breaking it. True...
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    20" of Snow ! Chickens do not like..... *pics*

    22 " for December here in Nebraska.Two day Blizzard winds blew drifts up to 10 feet in spots. Took us 2 days to dig the driveway out. Took me 1 hour to dig a path to check on the girls. Heck with getting the car out and getting some food in the house. The hens always take priority.
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    Angora Rabbit new to our home I must be going crazy!!!

    I like your last picture with the two cats and the rabbit. It looks like the calico is telling the black and white cat," he's mine. So don't get any ideas in your head!!" I laughed just looking at the expressions! Priceless!
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    Please learn from my mistake!

    Tried to trick our "fatty" . I started putting his food in a clean plastic cat litter tub I recycled. I'm thinking I'm pretty smart because no extra food for two weeks!! One day I walk by and see an orange and white striped tail happily waving back and forth . Yep, he was in the tub eating for...
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    My big fat chicken fight

    I hope that you win! I have illegal chickens in a small town. The only thing keeping them from going after me is that the ordinance says livestock, but does not specify what is considered livestock. Very few ordinances are enforced here. They seem to go after people that the members of the...
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    What am I going to do with him??

    It's a boy thing. Some boys just love to pee on everything. My middle son use to pee on everything out in our yard (he was about 4) That wasn't so bad. One day I was vacumning my floor downstairs when he came barreling in and ran upstairs. In about two minutes it started to rain on my head! We...
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    Where do you live that permits chickens?

    I live in a small village pop. 390. If someone complains then they will send out a letter. The village ordinances say no livestock. They do not specify what is considered livestock. My chickens roam right out in our fenced yard and I have not heard one peep from the village or anyone else about...
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    Need 4H project help.

    There is a you tube video on 4-H chicken showmanship( type in those words) a young girl goes step by step how to show your chickens. It worked like a charm with my daughter she won showmanship in her first year. Our chicken didn't meet the standards, but she at least got a blue even with a molt...
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    The Rhodesian Ridgebacks struck again!

    We live in a small town not too far from you. When the neighbors pit bulls were on the lose one deputy said shoot them on your property if they attack. A different deputy said you can't shoot a firearm within city limits. Of course ,it wouldn't have made any difference- I would have shot them if...
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    Wondering for fair

    We took our hen to the fair this year. What I noticed is that the pullets did not take above a blue. Mainly this was because they still had a lot of developing to do according to the judge. She really looked hard at their bone structure. some things we did to show better was of course the bath...
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    Change in pecking order?

    It's funny how pecking orders work. We took one of our hen,Wrangler, to the fair and I was worried that she would lose her number 2 spot. After quarantine she went up to the leader hen and let her know who was boss. Wrangler is slightly larger than the others and has all the makings of a good...
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    Hen pecked!

    Update on our little hen (Nellie). She is still getting her feathers pulled out of her head. I may need to knit her a cap for the winter! I know that actually she should be culled. She does lay but not as well as the others. It's just she is just such a lovely little ugly hen! The other day she...
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    Hen pecked!

    I wish you luck with your pecking problem. I have a hen that is still being pecked on a constant basis. It got so bad that she now has her own little fenced off area away from the other "bullies". What I have noticed is that this particular hen and another sibling are slightly smaller and lower...
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    How to become self-sufficient (kinda) with chickens.

    I'll jump back in with what the post orginally wanted to know about feeding chickens. Having come from a farm background, it may take more acreage than you have to produce enough food. Depends on how many chickens you have,what part of the country you live in. My dad just had to plow up several...
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    How to become self-sufficient (kinda) with chickens.

    Depending on where you live, calcium would be the least of your worries if something were to happen. After reading a book called," One Second After" I discovered that I hadn't thought about our water supply. No Electric-no water pumped to our towns water tower. We have a place were we could go...
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    Are chickens really bird brains?

    We have had daytime and nighttime attacks on the chickens. Nighttime seemed to be the most devastating. Most of the chickens were asleep and were easy to kill. The few that woke up were easy to run down, although they did get far. During the day I have seen a coyote dart out of a bush and nail a...
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    reintroducing broody hen back to the flock. Help!

    I have a Black Australorp hen that went broody. We had her sit on some eggs that we were told were fertilized. To make a long story short the eggs didn't hatch and my daughter decided to put her back in the pen with the 4 other hens. They tore her comb,pecked and chased her nonstop. She has...
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    12 dead birds and charges filed *update 1st court date today*

    Jody so sorry for your loss. I am glad that the Douglas Co Sheriff takes it seriously. If it stalls, give Mike McKnight on Channel 6 a call! There have been lots of ads for people reducing their flocks for winter on our local Craigslist.(if you want more chickens) It took everything in my power...
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    Chicken Coop in BASEMENT?

    I had Chicks in my basement for 6 weeks and that about drove me nuts. I had to constantly change their litter and sweep up the concrete floor. And they were in a box. No way would I live with my girls as big as they are now. Not to mention they on occassion raise a fuss with each other and you...
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