My neighbor across the street left her gate open and one of her dogs got out and came into MY yard and killed one of MY chickens. I'm down to 5 now with 6 more 4 week old babies in the house. Gonna have to confine them to the back yard. My chickens have never gone into any one else's yard and that's not fair. I don't have a problem keeping my dog contained so why can't other people do the same. It's not that hard. I'm steaming mad and very upset because my Buffs are pets. They come and sit in my lap and gather around me and talk to me and follow me everywhere.
Sorry about losing your girl. Not only do we have to figure out a way to keep our chickens safe from wild predators-we also have to keep them safe from domestic ones, regardless if the owners are responsible OR NOT. Yesterday, our neighbors dog walked right into our house right behind my husband who was carrying groceries leaving the front door ajar behind him. Now that's comfortable!! If she wasn't old and arthritic, it could have been a problem with our cat.
I used to have a neighbor with unknown number of cats. For some reason, it seemed they ALL liked to use my little flower garden as their litter box. When her ferret made its way to my back door, through a locked fenced yard with a dog - I finally had the nerve to have a neighborly conversation with her.
Hoping you are able to work it out peaceably. (for you)
Hello, everyone! New to the chicken and new to the site. Glad I found you guys. My only chicken experiences are when I was little and my grandma kept some chicken in a small coop but I always want some chickens for myself and had been waiting for years (due to city rules ect) and finally pulled the trigger.
Got two 3 months old off Craigslist, one black sexlink and one silver lace wyandotte. Lost the sexlink to the weed killer. I have done tons of research during the years but I obviously missed this one. Learned it hard way will never forget.
Then I build a coupe for the wyandotte. Took me about 3 days, and painted them ASU maroon (go devils!). Used decompsed granite as substrate, works like a charm! Not smelly at all and super easy to clean. Attached are two 14x14 nesting box.
Then added some chicks, 1 white leghorn 1 bared rock and 2 rhode island reds from Ace hardware in Gilbert, and 1 east egger, 1 black australorp, 1 black sexlink from pets club in Tempe. I didn't mean to keep this many chicken in the small coop, but people saying the survival rate for first chicken keeper are low.
Fortunately/unfortunately, I didn't lose any one of them. They all bigger and healthy as cow.
I gave away 2 little rhode island reds last week, tougher than I thought.....
After waiting waiting and waiting, today I got my first egg from wyandotte! So excited! Showing picture to all my friends!!! The egg is small but good shape and solid. It weights 40g(1.4ounce) only, I am sure tomorrow will be a bigger one.
I think the wyandotte sets a good model for the rest of the younger girls. She found the nesting box, didn't make a mess and she didn't even clark!!! Super quiet just did her business and walked out like nothing happened!
Glad to meet everybody, this is cool place to hang out. ciao~
So adorable... Can not tell if your mix is a roo?? Just a newbie..I wanted to share some of my new babies. I have mostly ameraucana in all the varieties except lavender and splash in my adults and a couple of crested and a RIR and an Ancona. I just got a couple of ameraucana/turken crosses. I am excited to see if they brown or colored eggs and if they will be broody hens or not. they are only 2 months and 4 months and some chicks so I have to be patient for awhile. we bought some more ameraucana's and some of the ameraucana/turkens and some more crested chicks for this year. I am looking to add a few silkies to be brood hens for me. I also added a couple of ducks for my kids. I am trying to figure out if this will be a hen or a cock so it does not have a name yet
