I can offer a suggestion about vermin. Our chickens are actually in an aviary type pen. We have a 10 X 10 welded wire dog kennel with a roof. Our daughter found a thin young cat living in a dumpster at a hotel while we were travelling for a dog show a couple years ago on her birthday. We don't...
Sorry it has taken so long for me to reply. I don't know if my situation or advice can help as we had unusual circumstances.
Our fight with the neighbor was over a blow-up about the property line that he refused to respect. Fortunately for us, we were on good terms with his last tenant who...
We bought a barred rock roo, Easter egger roo and 3 EE hens from Myers. We lost all but two within 4 days of arrival. The barred rock roo made it and is quite obviously a brazen little roo right down to white dot on his head. We assumed the other chick that lived was the EE roo as it is larger...
Look up Papadilis vs Troy (sp) and read over my attorneys argument again. According to that court case, a farmer can move into a new area and begin farming if he follows gaamps.
I will paste the entire argument below; however, this was not our total application. We had the dog issue as well under appeal so we had two separate hearings crammed into one with a 75 page packet. We were also fighting to keep our 6 show dogs and our ability to continue to show, breed and...
The hatchery has actually been very kind and they are sending replacements but wont have them until April. That sounds exactly like what the first three that died did. They were huddled and sleepy and towards the end would just fall over. The last chick that died seemed fine. She was running...
Another woman in Shelby was told to get rid of her chickens or she would be arrested. She went to the media. She said she has been put on hold now because they are planning a meeting early next year to discuss the ordinence. Maybe they will be allowing chickens in the future.
Two other easter eggers died about 24 hours apart. They are running around fine during the day then seem to go to sleep a bit earlier than the others and in the morning we find another dead chick. I'm so frustrated and disheartened by this. They were all vaccinated. We did see round worms in the...
The little austra white didn't make it through the night. The EE chick is warm and standing on her feet but she still stands in a squatting position with her eyes closed. She didn't show any interest in the food or water like the other chicks so we just dipped our fingers in the water and let...
Aw. :( Two of the chicks got too far from the others and the heat. I think they got a chill or maybe they were weak or injured during shipping. We found them lying limp away from the other chicks and they felt very cold. Our brooding pen was likely far too big for day old chicks. I haven't...
We have four new Easter Eggers ,two austra white and a barred rock; all ordered from Meyers. :) The barred rock and one easter egger are supposed to be males as we had to cull our roo. He turned into a mean little bugger and wasn't even nice to the hens. He chased them away from the food and...
We have a little bantam hen named Dill. She generally lays every other day. She is currently our only Bantam in that pen so it's pretty obvious which eggs are hers. My daughter, Sarah, collected the eggs today after the last girl left the box and Dill left us a cute one as usual. They start...
It amazes me that they seem to think anyone who is using RTFA in an urban or suburban setting is just someone who wants to raise a handful of birds in the middle of the city. When we bought our house in 2000 this area was pretty quiet and rural. We had gravel roads, 4 way stop signs and deer...