Chickens and fireworks

[tomato lady]

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Mine are very similar to yours. My grey/black splash is crowing. The black one you see is about 8 weeks in the photo. She/he ?? has waddles not quite as large or as red as his. She/he does not have as much red on her head as he does. Saddle feathers look the same -- neither one seem more pointed to me. I am not sure if they are both roos or if it is just still hard to tell. They are 9 weeks now. When I posted pics a while back, everyone guessed they were both pullets. Maybe I have a crowing pullet. The crow is not real good yet -- maybe he is just young or maybe he is a she. ??? Wish I knew!

Sorry about straying from the subject.
The 4th of July noise didn't have any lasting effect. This morning they were eating strawberries out of my hand.

 

[echlfan]

My friend worked a fireworks booth for 8 hours on friday. She said they could not keep up with the demand for the $100 boxed sets. She said it was so hard to keep her mouth shut, lol.

 

[rufus]

Somebody fired off a rocket or a flare or something in my neighborhood. It landed on the dirty bookstore and set it on fire.

Who says prayers don't get answered.

Rufus

 

[silkiechicken]

Chickens here did fine, but they were adults. Even when a large exploding butterfly landed near their house and created a baseball sized hole and popped off an entire vine to a squash plant none of the animals seemed to care. The cats were even continuing their hunting though the noise. Furnished the space and fireworks came. The smog and haze lasted through noon and filled up two 32 gallon trash bags with firework left overs and topped off the recycling bin with the boxes they came in.

 

[Mommie Clucker]

People in the next town over use 'a remote location' for their pyrotechnic competition several times a year. The last one occurred on October 1, 2011 and our chickens have not laid a single egg since. The blasts were so intense that they rattled the foundation of my house and the vibrations were felt in our chests. It has gotten to be quite the problem and we have gone to the police, and the town involved that gave them the permit. I would appreciate information about this.
Will my chickens will ever lay again or am I going to have to obtain a brand new flock? I think that they have suffered because of seven hours of blasts. (over 400 in 2 hours)
Thank you

 

[Ole rooster]

What was the fireworks for?

 

[stilldeb]

We had problems with a fox scoping out our chickens over the summer at dusk. Then the 4th of July came along and my son set off some fireworks in the yard with his friend...some big ones. The chickens didn't seem to mind it too much, but we never saw the fox again.