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I am putting together a packet of information to give to our local council to give them a primer on keeping chickens as pets. I would like to soften them up a little before I am scheduled to speak at the following meeting. Do any of you have any good resources / information sheets on the...

I have three stealth chickens, except one just refuses to be stealth. At one time, I was allowing them to roam the backyard whenever I was home. But I found it nearly impossible to keep them from digging up the roots of my young citrus trees, so now I have the three of them confined to an 8 x...

Quote: This is definitely not normal. Average rainfall in December is about 1.5 inches and we got over 10 inches in 5 days.

Quote: Same thing here. I don't think it has ever rained here this much for so long in my lifetime. I even used an extra tarp to keep out the rains, but the ground is so saturated that it goes under the run and all of the pine shavings are soaked. I'd like to hear what others have to say as...

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Thanks for all the replies. I think I am going to have to put up a fenced in area within the backyard for them. After I clipped their wings yesterday, I found one on top of our 4 foot high compost pile which is next to the fence. That got me thinking about all the trees and raised beds we...

I wasn't sure that wing clipping would be necessary until I found my 22 week old hens standing on top of our 6 foot fence this morning. The dogs next door were going crazy. My problem is that there is a 2-2.5 foot tall retaining wall across the back of our property and the fence is only 3.5-4...

Up until a few days ago, I was using a chick waterer for my 16 week old pullets. I got tired of them kicking pine shavings in the water EVERY day, so I took that out and started using a small animal / rabbit type waterer. In the two days I've had it installed, I've only seen one of them use it...

If you don't mind me asking, how do the chickens enter the playhouse...is it through a window or through the floor? I'm finishing up adding on the same little tikes playhouse to my existing hoop coop and I'm debating whether to lift up the playhouse off the ground like you have it.

We are dog sitting my sibling's rat terrier/jack russell and I'm trying to train her to coexist with the chickens. This dog has an extremely high prey drive. Last night, when I brought her home, she was all over my hoop house and at one point she was halfway on top of the house. I had to get...

The price on this playhouse dropped to $119. Amazon also dropped the price to $121.46 if you are willing to wait a few weeks for shipment. For a new playhouse, this price is comparable to what many Craig's List posts ask for a used one. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Step2-Tidy-Cottages/10983989...

6.5 week old RIR. The main reasons I question her gender is that she was slower to feather out than her RIR sister of the same age and she is now bigger and has significantly bigger legs than her sister. Also, her sister had a stripe on the back of her head and this one didn't. These are our...

IMO, $75 is a little much, especially with a missing shutter. I just bought the same exact playhouse for $40 in perfect condition...but I held out for a while to get that price.

I would be more worried about rain than anything. I lived in the bay area for a while and I remember that it would rain for several days in a row often...so just make sure that the hens have enough space to move around that is protected from rain and flooding.

Quote: San Francisco winters are very much like their summers....pretty much 6 months of spring and 6 months of fall. As Mark Twain said "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

Quote: Ditto.

"I believe that I will be able to build these for under 6.5k, labor and materials included, and I imagine each one will accommodate fifty birds easily. " Wow.

This is an 11 week old RIR. Looks like a roo to me, but I said I would ask here to be sure. If it is a roo, the owner cannot keep it.

Is this the shed you used? http://www.walmart.com/ip/Suncast-Horizontal-Utility-Shed/10993777?findingMethod=rr

That looks awesome. I was thinking of doing something with a horizontal storage shed like that.