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Orps, Austrolorps, wyandottes.

You are in the County and not a City, right?? Scroll until you find your zoning code. That is what will determine your ability to have chickens. I believe once you are in R1 and higher (r2, etc) you can't have chickens. That is what the code reads...

Sorry. Been up to my eyeballs. I have been trying to stop this attack issue for some time. 12 hens, mixed ages, three pullets total in the flock. Two of the oldest (5 and 4 years) are the culprits, but the hen they go after is 4. Only the pullets are new. They free range all day over 1/2 acre...

I have a very docile austrolorp who is getting attacked by two of my more dominant hens, an orpington and a banty. They have pecked her head bald and seriously bloody a couple of times now to the point of serious scaring over one eye. I remove the perpetrators for some time and they immediately...

These folks are trying to change the ordinances in Brevard FL that will allow you to have four horses on two acres, but no chickens and so on. Help sign the petitiion. many of us now keep chickens with the blessing of our neighbors but not our government...

We modified DSD's small tin shed into a small coop with the addition of some 'windows' and a poop door into a dog kennel. Took a little bit of wood, heavy wire to reinforce the chain link fence and close up the windows. Pretty darned easy. One afternoon of work. I would consider putting heavy...

My interior coop has a droppings pit which the girls roost over. In dry weather, the pine shavings move from the larger floor area into the droppings pit monthly and the pit cleaned every three to four months. When it is excessively wet, I base the need to clean on wet shavings. Our...

Only when ill, really. I smell the coop to make sure it's still clean smelling, particularly after heavy rains. I don't want any complaining neighbors.

The rest appear fine. There has been a gap of a couple of weeks between the girls getting this and a coop cleaning after the first died although no sterilizing.

Anyone??

This is my second hen to behave this way. I attributed the first hen's death to the heat. They both start out with an eye problem. One eye, shut all the time, pupil fully dilated. Eating good, then get lethargic. This is where the two diverge. Thought sour crop with the first (her crop was...

I'm not patient like other folks here to show all the stages of my coop. But, I will give a lot of those folks kudos for posting and giving the rest of us good ideas. Our problem here in Florida isn't cold. It's heat and rian proofing with wind thrown in. Our old coop proved inadequate in TS Fay...

Name: Big Fat Hen Age: 2 years Category: Adult

This is about the third time Monsanto (gee, they want ALL agribusiness) has tried to get this through. Nothing to do with political parties, just folks who owe Monsanto. It bears watching every time, though.

Someone is interpreting language. That means go over their head. Sorry, but I AM staff. Staff is not to interpret language, but enforce it. No if's, ands or buts. If the council meant the language was to be in the ordinance on roosters, then they should have put it there. At this point, I see a...

My BO's make short work of ANY garden. I don't need to till. I could only be a dirt gardener. My banties are OK around mature plants unless they have something tasty like cucs or tomatoes. The best part of a chicken in the garden is their manure once composted.

If you've got an owl at night coming in, then you could surely get possums, coons, weasels and a hawk. Use a tarp to block paws and netting for the sky raiders. Easier to short fix it than wait for all to disappear in the night.

I don't know about your hen, but when my chunky BO's run across the yard, it looks like one of scenes from Chicken Run. And, mine free range across the 1/2 acre all day. Maybe someone else can give you some advice. The biggest question will be if she is acting normal - laying, feeding, water...

I'm late to this post. I have BO's. My absolute worst layer is my best brooder and mother. She really isn't good for much else because she's also my smallest BO. I don't have a roo, but if someone wants pure BO's I get a few eggs from DSD (she has a real nice BO roo and hens I raised for her)and...

In a chimenea, in the garden under veggie plants, in a bucket, in a old tire...banties are funny like that.