I forgot to mention skunks as a possibility. Skunks, racoon, possum, ferret, minks are common road kill within a mile of my house.
Don't think we have a cat problem in this area. Too many coyotes.
Who crawled into the hen house, took a hen and left the wings behind?
I have had my four hens for seven years now without any predator attacks. I live in town, in a subdivision with an undeveloped wooded 5 acre lot behind my fence. I have never seen any animal in my yard other than a squirrel...
Found this
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife does not classify coyotes as game animals, but a state license is required to hunt or trap them (RCW 77.32.010). The owner, the owner's immediate family, employee, or a tenant of real property may kill or trap a coyote on that property...
The Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey didn't do anything for me. I just finished reading The Divide by Matt Taibbi. I am so mad at bankers! I will not give them any more money than I absolutely have to! I am now motivated!!
Duvall Washington Chicken Ordinance
Are Chickens Allowed in this location
Yes
Max Chickens Allowed
Roosters Allowed
No
Permit Required
Yes
Coop Restrictions
City/Organization Contact name
City of Duvall Phone 425-788-1185 Mail: PO Box 1500, Duvall, WA 98019...
Rex's Rustic Roost
The Rustic Roost was inspired by Purina's Hen Hutch, the details of which can be found at http://poultry.purinamills.com/stellent/groups/public/documents/web_content/ecmd0007989.pdf
We winged it so no plans but the shape is nearly the same as Purina's hutch but our...
Chicken feed is a regional issue. I don't think any brand is the same throughout the country. Purina's website says to "Contact your local manufacturing plant for a current feed tag". The bag of Layena I'm using now has soy as the sixth ingredient.
I remembered this discussion a couple years...
I have the same question and read through the posts and not quite sure what the answer is.
The local feed store's cat sleeps in the bin with the day old chicks without any problems. I know this wouldn't work at home, our cats love to hunt. We have four cats and four hens, fortunately the cats...
This was in the P-I today. They are saying more chickens will be allowed but no roosters.
Someone has a solution for the Roosters. "The explosion in city-slicker farming gave Grant an idea for a "great business opportunity," in which she began offering her humane butchering services on...
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YES! My blood pressure is reeeally low like that, and I used to sometimes get the "blackout" thing when I would stand up after sitting down for long periods (such as reading a book) and I'm 100% sure it was a blood pressure thing.
I never had as much trouble as as often as you posted...
I think that it would be easy to spend 260k on security. What's that five cops or a propriety software program? Not sure where you are or the size of your transit system but here drivers have been complaining for years that they need better security. A few high profile assaults have gotten...
I have used a plastic hanging feeder for a couple of years without complaint. I also have a feeder I made out of a plastic nut jar with a pie tin attached to the bottom. The girls prefer to both eat and drink out of the plastic containers. The metal may make things taste funny, I don't know.
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The two of us go through 1/4 a steer eating beef twice a week. The 175lbs is probably the hanging weight, not the packaged weight. If it's too much for you finding someone to share it shouldn't be a problem. The place we get our beef from has a waiting list.
Speaking of people getting sick from industrial food, did anyone read Cows on Drugs in this Sundays NY Times? There's a bill in the House that would reserve antibiotics for sick animals unlike now where the use of antibiotics is allowed to fatten the animals up.
I wonder about this too. I'm sure someone has an answer. I could use a couple of more birds and I'm lazy. It would be great just to sneak a couple of chicks under a setting hen and have her take over.
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I shop mom & pop stores as much as possible, I write this after a trip to Costco, but it's hard. I'm fortunate that I live in a part of the country where eating non-corporate food is relatively easy. There are local dairy's, grass feed beef, a food co-op and several farmer's markets. I...
That sounds horrible. Hope the police in your area are helpful. When my house was broken into years ago the police took a report but had the attitude of too bad, so sad. When a friend was robbed in a different city the police took fingerprints, an inventory and were very nice. An acquaintance...