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I agree. I would see how your neighbors feel about it. In my experience, it is not your immediate neighbors, but snooty people in the area which find the idea of chickens offensive. They don't understand that they are mostly pets, not farm animals. If you wanted to push for legal protection...

I am also new at chickens. But since he looks like he's got a downward-sloping tail and a peacomb, I'd guess he could be a Cubalaya. Here they are on Feathersite: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/Cuba/BRKCuba.html

I really like that idea. I think it could be really good. Post pictures if you end up building it!

You know, the best way to get revenge for this horse is to report that guy to the police, animal control, and the local media, and make sure he never works as a vet, or even owns horses, again. Did anyone take pictures of the horse? Send them to your local news channel or newspaper. They'll be...

Maybe make sure there's nothing in there scaring them, like a rat or something... I'd be jumping around if there was a rat in my house.

So cute! they look like they're wearing little helmets!! I want one!!

As in, it protects the hen's back from being injured by the rooster's feet. Just to clarify.

... Or, maybe you could view him as Nature's way of teaching you how to build a better fence? You'll probably have to do that anyway, since if there's enough food in the area to support one, there's probably room for more...

I'm living in Hawaii right now, too. On Oahu, there's a restaurant called Pizza Bob's, on the North Shore. I go there a lot, it's a great place. But, anyway, the parking lot is inhabited by a large colony of feral chickens who hang out by the dumpsters. I've wanted to go over there and look for...

When I was researching guineas, I found this website. It has a ton of information, and if you scroll down to the very bottom, there is an FAQ section that is also very helpful. Hope that helps. http://www.guineafowl.com/fritsfarm/guineas/

Eh, yeah, its a lot of work to raise a chicken to eat it, but I would think the result would be a lot tastier that a tiny little chick with hardly any meat on it... If I had chicks I didn't want, it would be more worth it to use them as fertilizer after they were killed- didn't the Native...

The topic of this thread made me think of a news story that was on a couple of days ago, not sure how many people saw it, and the details are a little fuzzy, but it just made me kind of think a little bit. The gist of it was, some people got arrested for having 800+ dogs in cages in one triple...

I know some places, such as supply stores on the internet, sell actual cones of plastic for the purposes of butchering chickens. Those might be cheaper than a traffic cone, unless there's some lying around. Then, yeah, I would imagine most of the blood could be caught in a large tub/bucket...

Hey hypnofrog, this is really off topic, but there are people who make workarounds so that you can use youtube with linux, among other programs. Just do a search in google for "youtube linux fix" or something. It takes a little patience to fix things sometimes, but, especially with things like...

Its possible they give visitors a dog and pony show- they only allow people in their best facilities, show them the best quality birds, etc. Only someone who works there could see the whole picture. I can't see how people could run a proper business by starving their birds and keeping them in...

Hey, guys- thanks for all your input. I decided to order a copy from amazon last week. I got it in the mail today- It's really cool. Lots of color photos and information about pretty much every breed of chicken I've heard of. Also some good duck and goose information. There's also a surprisingly...

Hi, I'm new around here. I'm doing a lot of research before I get chickens (about two year's worth ), and I was wondering if anyone has Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds, and if they thought it was worth getting? I like it because it seems to have a lot of color photos of all these...

I don't know if I'd go so far as to leave bowls of cat food out for the little boogers, but they are cute, in a hissing, freaking out sort of way... The only up close encounters I've had with possums is when I'd go to take the trash out, lift the lid, and there would usually be one. I would look...

Yeah, those iguanas are crazy! I grew up in SW Florida, and I saw one trying to cross the Cape Coral bridge one day- I thought I was seeing things. But, then I heard about people getting tired or scared of their giant, old iguanas, so they just chuck them in the backyard. Its pretty bad... they...

I don't have much experience with the "sick chickens" thing... Is there any way to help an infection like that? Is it contagious? Is it common for chickens to get sick after they've gotten wet? Thanks a lot... just wondering for future reference.