Sorry about your loss. And have to say that that is a line of crap. If they even threaten your livestock you have the right to shot them, when they step on your property you have the right to shot them! Maybe things are side rent where you live, but here that is how things work. Dogs can do a...
Some if the towns I am close to are bluffton or about an hour away Fort Wayne. Most people don't recognize the little towns, kind of like gnaw bone down in brown county. It was a good 3 hour drive.
Brown county, more spc
Where are these "hills" you speak of? We are in Southern Indiana (way down on the river) and I absolutely detest how flat it is down here - of course my perception is likely skewed because to me "hills" are what I grew up in/on at the foot of the Idaho mountains.
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I love Indiana and will never move.....I guess I should specify. Northern Indiana. Southern has entirely too many hills, not enough winter, and I didn't see a single corn field while I was down there either-no corn fields, it just isn't home lol.
(I am sure they probably have con somewhere just...
No way could I live in Texas. TOO HOT! I don't remember it getting above 90 this summer. And that about killed me lol. Ready for winter here, just not looking forward to frozen water
Every flock varies. Most people that are serious about showing bathe their chickens 3-5 days before every show. It makes them look good and just makes me feel better. And when they get bugs they need bathed to kill them.
Once they get used to the noise they find it very relaxing. A lot the ones I show are very used to bathes, because they get one before every show. I only blow dry them if it is cold or drafty out though
Mine LOVE getting wet. Teu will purposely go out in the rain. Some like getting bathes. Some like to cool off on hot days. You be surprised how many chickens like water. Not all do but a lot do. I know this isn't just true for mine, I know many others who like to get wet
I am not saying that behavior is always passed on to offspring, bu I had this mean buff brahma. I crossed with some nice laying hens I had, just for a test hatch. And man. His sons were twice as mean as him!
People are working on getting splashes accepted. It is a long process and takes time. I would expect it to be accepted hopefully within the next few years
My EEs almost alway lay around 10 months. It isn't a calcium problem I anything, other breeds here lay at normal time. It doesn't bother me that they lay that late.