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    Predator orchickens fleeseing them selves ??

    ok, I got scared when i saw how many feathers were stunned about, so molt = growing new feathers ?? thanks....
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    Predator orchickens fleeseing them selves ??

    she is a little over 2 years now....thanks
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    Predator orchickens fleeseing them selves ??

    Hi all i have 4 chickens and live a little out side Chicago, starting to get chilly here with highs of 50s..and the other mourning when i went out to my chickens I see a lot of my black astrolorp feathers stunned about the chicken run... i only have 1 black chicken the rest are tan in brown...
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    Illinois...

    Hi, A little off line, but is their ant out door rifle -shoot gun ranges out near any of you, I'm in cook county so that's a big no no here.... thanks Bob...
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    Caught an Possum. Killed a chook and eating eggs/chicken food. What to do?

    get a tub or big enough trash can , fill it with water, toss cage n all in , weigh it down for 10 minutes,, done and done''
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    ? about my chicken laying egg's and getting cold

    thanks for the info ....i will be adding 2 ten week old Isabrowns to the coop next week...will see how it goes... Hmmm wonder who will be boss between the Isa browns and the atrolorp and a Bantam brawhn... thanks again,
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    8 week old chicks living in my dinning room, big enough to be moved to thier coop?

    thanks for the in put , looks like i will move them out there next week end after i get some tarps on there run to slow the wind and drafts that can hit the run..... thanks again...
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    Anti-Poultry Laws - An Ulterior Motive?

    O ' it's real, any one following the bakers green acres battle going on up in Michigan. small farmers are fighting with DNR up there that passed a ordnance , saying that anyone raising pigs that have Hair or curly or straight tails are raising wild pigs and they must be terminated , cause wild...
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    ? about my chicken laying egg's and getting cold

    I'm new to chickens , and this will be mines first winter here out side Chicago.. the oldest one was laying for almost two months till the temp here has dropped to 50ish during the day and 30s at night, well she stopped laying egg's since this cold set in...and am wondering when she will return...
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    8 week old chicks living in my dinning room, big enough to be moved to thier coop?

    im in the same boat here i have 2 living in my basement, , mine are about 10 weeks old and the same weather as you have...I also wonder how to introduce these 2 new birds to the 2 all ready living out in the coop and run ??
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    Brahma Thread

    cool thread, now i have to start at the begining ,lol
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    Ground cover ? for where im going to put my coop'

    thanks, I also electrified the top of the run at night, to keep anything from climbing on top of the run at night...
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    illinois towns that allow backyard chickens

    I agree with you both, It's a Grey area...poorly written, no Harm, No fowl <lol.. I say...the Neighbors that do know, think it's pretty cool...think I'm a little crazy but still cool... good luck to all..
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    Ground cover ? for where im going to put my coop'

    I understand.. but what i did was , when i got the old dirt and clay packed down to level where i was to put the run, I took a long 4' wide roll of chicken wire, and cut it wider and longer than the run, and doubbled it up and over lapped it, It extends out around 2' on all sides of the run...
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    Ground cover ? for where im going to put my coop'

    thanks, i went with about 3-4" of sand in the run, i was putting straw and Hay in the run over the sand, but found if you dont turn over the hay-straw after a rain, it gets funkey and takes days for it to dry out...my coop and run are 75% in the shade.. soo far it's working out great, and yes i...
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    illinois towns that allow backyard chickens

    I'm In Hickory Hills, Just west of you .. we have a Municipal code against having farm animals, doesn't state chickens, but again farm animals.. here copy =paste of code.. = 14.10 PROHIBITED ANIMALS It shall be unlawful to keep any pigs, swine, sheep, cattle, horses, goats or similar animals...
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    illinois towns that allow backyard chickens

    great thread, looks like owner ship of back yard chickens is expanding, slowly, but still...
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    ~***CITY/SUBURBAN FOLK THREAD***~ Not all of us are clueless!

    Nice thread, I was born and raised on the South side of Chicago, I now live in the S/W Burbs out side Chicago where chickens arrent allowed so i have ondly 2 astrolorps in a 10' by 5' run, I have to little girls who love playing with and feeding the Hens, and the neighbors who know of my chickes...
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    how long does it take chicken manure compost

    intresting thread, soo following along...
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    How to Build a Run

    thanks... I just moved the chickens out there today..So glad to get them out of the house..I hope the doubled up chicken wire i buried a few inches under the Run works at keeping raccoons and the fox out..
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