I want to hatch some rhode island red chicks and i am looking to buy eggs locally. We are in Chicago. Please let me know if you can help
Thanks in advance
Keesmom yeah you are right, single family houses on mini lots for 500k, wow. I just checked redfin and there is nothing cheaper in Somerville. Before we moved to Chicago 8 years ago we stayed in Amherst at my brother for a while. It was much cheaper then.
I will look at the towns you suggested...
Fakefarmer1, our move is going to take up to 1 year maybe and I am trying to get as much information as I can so I can at least keep the current lifestyle as you mentioned.
In Illinois you can homestead more easily in Chicago then in suburbs although you might have 10 times more land. The rules...
Thanks a lot gypsylion,
I wonder if they had requests to update the chicken ordinance from chicken owners. In Illinois we have towns that are impossible while basically across the street Chicago is a heaven for chicken,bees,goat owners. I am just on the right side of the street of one of this...
Thank you so much gypsylion and keesmom
Yes we were looking at Waltham too as it was advised to us as an affordable area with good schools.
I will keep you posted of any progress
So nice to know you both
Hi
I found this thread while looking for Boston chicken enthusiasts.
We are thinking to move to Boston from Chicago within a year.
I am trying to find out which towns near Boston I can keep chickens legally. Currently we have 17 hens and 2 roosters but I am willing to downgrade or give up the...
Came from Mcmurray on April 13. Vacinated for mareks.
Looking to find him a new owner that won't eat him before he lives his rooster life. He is a smallish breed after all but will be a pretty bird when he finishes growing
We got 15 females, coocko marans, australorp, buff orpingtons,jersey giants, black stars,Easter egger with a friend. He was the freebie and I wasn't thinking of keeping a rooster. Lets see if the neighbors will like the idea when they hear him
Colorwise he is looking more and more like an old English game. He has purple,green bluish feathers coming up at the wings. I was looking at cackle hatchery pictures and some of their OEG birds have green legs too. Mcmurray gives no details about them as you said. He is very small compared to...