A horrible neighbor reported us. Our coops are all 50 feet away from any neighbor's house, but we let the chickens, ducks and geese out during the day in our totally fenced yard to free range. Nowhere in the ordinances can I find anything that says that we're not allowed to let our pets wander...
My incubator is coming tomorrow and I haven't found anyone that wants me to hatch some duck eggs for them in Austin Texas to practice for my indian runner eggs arriving in February so I figure I can buy some chicken hatching eggs to give it a trial run. The thing is that I know if I hatch them...
My new hova-bator incubator with automatic turner is supposed to be arriving on 1/10/14. Yay! However, the indian runner duck eggs with the genetics that I'm looking for won't be available until February. I'd like to give my incubator a test run but don't want to keep any of the ducks. If anyone...
I have a large coop (apx 8x12) for my 9 chickens. It was a metal and plastic greenhouse that we re-purposed. The hens have tons of room up on their surround perches with trays underneath them filled with zeolite that I clean like a cat litter box. The floor I put cement pavers down that I can...
Howdy from Austin Texas. My hubbie has posted here and loves reading and I've used this place as a resource so much that I was so surprised that I couldn't actually post anything! Ha.
We have 9 happy, spoiled rotten, feathered, moving, clucking lawn ornaments (3 leghorns and 6 ISA browns) for...