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welcome aboard, i live in decatur as well. i buy my feed at Valley Feed near the end of the beltline near 20. it's about the last place on your left on the way out to 20. you can also go to the CO-OP on 31 near target.

just got caught up in here and i agree with wisher. you shouldn't be having a "how many chickens can i get in here" battle with your land lord.

my 6 gallon bucket was a solid brick this morning. had to put a water bowl out for them to tide them over for a while. if this crap keeps up i'll need to get that aquarium heater to put in there

i've been bahhumbug too. tree decorating with the kids? sounds like fun until you get started and all the yelling about touching this not touching that. something ALWAYS gets broken. wife gets mad. dragging all that crap up and down from the attic. watching the bank account drain all month...

best part about turkey is all the secondary meals you can make out of it. i take the carcass (the body, wings) and boil that for a few hours. taking the time to pull all the extra meat off after about an hour of cooking then letting all the bones and skin ooze out their awesomeness. then we...

they can't come confiscate your guns. you sold them all a few years ago. don't you remember?

watched pots never boil. just check once a week. then, if they start laying you'll have enough for breakfast!

kids are funny. my kids BEG ME to eat the chickens. they want to watch them get butchered too. i shot a rabbit in the garden once and my oldest (6 at the time) DEMANDED i clean it and we eat it. she wanted to see the heart, lungs, liver, etc as i cleaned it out. i gave her the heart to play...

got my first egg from my six new girls! tiny and WHITE. i thought i had all brown layers, oh well... white is just fine. so now i have a blue egg, 2 white layers, and 5 browns. well, i guess we'll see what color the other five will lay.

and it hasn't even gotten hot yet!

my mother always told me to pay rent with a check for that very reason. sorry some dirtbag put you in a bad situation.

i've trimmed her beak before. LOTS of blood. i don't think i'm taking the time to trim it off slowly like you're supposed to do. i think she eats fine out of the feeder, but she can't scratch and pick up stuff. oh, she's also lost all the nails on just one of her feet... what's that all about?

well, i think my cross beaked chicken heard me talking about culling her. she's the same age as my barred rock that started laying 4 months ago but i figured she didn't develop right with the cross beak and that she would never lay eggs. well i went to go get my barred rock's egg yesterday and...

you're right on the one man's trash thing. i guess i underestimated the value. funny side note: the guy asked my wife if she was "getting out of the chicken business" and she pointed to my new coop about 4ft away and told him "no, we're just getting started!" the guy said "WOW, i looked right...

well, i finally got my new coop finished and wanted to get rid of the old 4x4 PURPLE coop. i doubt i had $5 in the whole thing since i made it out of scrap wood from work. i threw it on craigslist for $40 HOPING i could get rid of it in a week or two. well, 30 minutes after i posted it i had...

congratulations! i love babies (had three of my own)... makes me a little sad to see a newborn knowing i won't have anymore of my own. well... there's always grandkids!!! (please not for another 14 years)

i tried posting this in the urban homesteader thread but didn't get a response... so it's up to my local crowd now: i don't know if i qualify as an urban homesteader or not. it all started with planting a squash in the flower beds out back. next year it was in both flower beds. next year...

my 6 new chicks are about 4 months old. i noticed one of them was starting to get a little cross beaked. i already have one stupid chicken with a cross beak. she never fully developed and doesn't lay eggs b/c of it. so i went to go trim this girl's beak. i made ONE clip on it about 1/16th...

whoa... had to re-read that.... the first time i didn't read it as "between A: my legs swelling and B:being out of breath"... i just read it as BETWEEN MY LEGS SWELLING!!!!! if it's swelling between your legs then it's time to get to the hospital lady!!!!!! good luck. hope all goes well. i...

the city is fine with it, but you might be moving into a HOA neighborhood that doesn't allow it.