The chicken laws in Tacoma were recently changed to allow more lenient setback requirements, however there is now a limit of 10 chickens per household. They still do not allow roosters. Not sure if this applies to Parkland however since it's outside the city limits?
Question regarding Silkie Roo's pretty please? Mine discovered his "special purpose" a couple of months ago and now one of his ladies has gone broody. Is there a chance that he's actually fertile yet?
So, one of my Black Copper Marans is making this odd whistling noise while breathing (has been doing this for a couple of days now) and her comb has turned purple. Is something partially blocking her airway? What should I do? Anyone have any ideas?
I agree that it's harder to add just one. I've been using the "buddy system" - I find that it works better to add 2 or more.
I just added a flock of 4 to my flock of 12. I divided my backyard in half with chicken wire and gave my new guys the side with the smaller coop. They got to see each...
So, yesterday I noticed that one of my favorite hens (a pretty little speckled sussex) looked as if she had a little bit of blood on the edges of her come and I wondered if perhaps one of the others had bitten her. This morning when I was doling out scratch (as I do every morning on my way out...
I have separate coops for my adolescents and my adult hens. They all free range the entire back yard together. We had the adolescents in temporary tractor until we could get them a very large coop of their own. My adults were all laying in their own nesting boxes until we replaced the tractor...