I own chickens and live in an urban area too. My tips are:
Get a red hen
Get straw to put on the floor (pea straw is good cause they eat the peas...)
Make sure she has a shelter and a high place to jump onto (they like to sleep on a higher place)
Get the hen as a chick! It's really fun...
I have two hens and a duck, living in a coop around 5 by 2 metres with no concrete, just dirt underneath. I am not allowed to let them walk around free for a whole day so I only let them out for around a half our each morning and sometimes later in the day. Anyway, it is ALWAYS raining at the...
Relax, it's fine.
When I got my two hens I was worried they'd never lay because it was taking them quite a while. Don't worry. They get to the laying stage and you just have to feed them and take care of them well and wait patiently.
: Just feed them in the morning. I feed mine in the morning and they are plump, energetic and healthy. Only about 3 cups (but I only have 2 hens and a duck) and they lay HEAPS sometimes even twice daily...
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Yeah and it sucks, because on Pie Day, the dates don't match with why it's pie day and we have to get an explanation about the fact that it's like that because of the way they write it in America... lol
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Why should toilets swirl anyway?
And how has my thread advertising free hens and ducks turned into a chat room about toilets and toilet buttons that control them and whether they swirl or go straight down?!
Seriously, I am completely weirded out...:barnie:somad:rant:yiipchick
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Yep, you are actually right. Ine for solid and one for liquid! LOL! But we don't have a third... Only two... One with a small amount of water and a large amont of water! HELPING THE DROUGHT!
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Your toilets swirl?!
AWESOME!
Not only do our toilets not swirl, we have only one flush. Makes it real easy for any foreigners. In Australia I had to ask, "what are all these different buttons for." AND to make it worse, they aren't all the same. I never knew if I was pushing the...
I have a gorgeous friendly duck which i am giving away, he is a pekin and very freindly. Also famous!!!. Also giving away a gorgeuos 1yr old laying hen.
Dudu the duck was on Better Homes and Gardens, so if he had any problems they are solved, thanks to doctor Harry. Due to him being messy and...