Colorado

[FlaRocky]

FlaRocky...your avatar is absolutely beautiful!! Is this the Rocky Mountain Horse listed in your signature line?

Thank you, no that is a photo a one of my first homebreds "Classy" MVFClassicBourbon.

She is now 10 years old she rides and drives. Friends of mine have her now, she loves to drive her and all the grandkids ride her and she can cut a cow. She loves to work cows. Here is a photo of my old girl Bridget.

And here is her daughter, one of the 5 I still have.

I just love my Rockys, the smooth ride and great temperment. I have a 4 year old that I am starting when it cools off some more. A blue roan filly.umbup: Maye Ride the Glide......Got Gait.....I Do.....

 

[Minchi]

In Denver you can actually only have 8 hens. I know many people do not get permits (I found this out on a coop tour hosted by Botanical Gardens) but I got one for 6 just to be safe, it only costs $25. You can also have 8 ducks, but the max of ducks and chickens combined is 8. Also if you want, you can have two dwarf nubian goats (females only). I highly doubt that there is someone who goes around checking coops to count the number of chickens.

I am sure they count in Highlands Ranch, they probably would look for a **** (not sure most here know how to tell a boy from a girl chicken), and you have to get the coop approved by the HOA... Things are strict around here and have me running to the farm land but they do a good job of keeping housing prices stable even during the worst times our house never dropped as much as everywhere else. You can have 4 animals, not counting fish and small rodents. If you look at Highlands Ranch you can PM me for more info but I think you will probably be looking a little further east or south. I don't know the rules in Parker but since there is some farm land I don't think they would be as strict and the light rail goes out there.

Pozees... I am sure my there and theirs' are incorrect but my grammar enabled friends did not get to me till it was too late and I fear I am irrevocably damaged goods.

 

[coloradogal]

Brrrr.... might have missed their first but there are many more days for them to come. They're gonna gets lots of practice. *Do I get bonus points for using there, their and they're correct in my reply? :-D
Geez ColoradoGal, I REALLY want to give you the bonus, but I read it through twice, and I can't find a use of 'there' except for where you are begging for points!!

Your masterful use of the other two, however, is noted.

Sorry, English Teacher's Daughter ...

I had to work on getting them all in.

Wendell, Happy Birthday! - and Wendell and Beth, Happy Anniversary!

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Pozees... I am sure my there and theirs' are incorrect but my grammar enabled friends did not get to me till it was too late and I fear I am irrevocably damaged goods.

I had a friend in college who was an english major. she could structure sentences, knew her participles and antecedents and was always sure to remind me there was no such thing as 'irregardless' or 'alot'. Had I not known her before her major, I doubt we ever would have become friends. I couldn't imagine how tough it would be to be an english teachers daughter.

 

[Pozees]

I am sure they count in Highlands Ranch, they probably would look for a **** (not sure most here know how to tell a boy from a girl chicken), and you have to get the coop approved by the HOA... Things are strict around here and have me running to the farm land but they do a good job of keeping housing prices stable even during the worst times our house never dropped as much as everywhere else. You can have 4 animals, not counting fish and small rodents. If you look at Highlands Ranch you can PM me for more info but I think you will probably be looking a little further east or south. I don't know the rules in Parker but since there is some farm land I don't think they would be as strict and the light rail goes out there.

Pozees... I am sure my there and theirs' are incorrect but my grammar enabled friends did not get to me till it was too late and I fear I am irrevocably damaged goods.

I wish I had had benefit of growing up not having every word spoken and written corrected, believe me. As long as we communicate what we intend, we have achieved the goal of language.

 

[mickey328]

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones who has a knack for grammar and spelling. We moved around so much when I was a kid that I completely missed a lot of the grammar issues from school Mom was a stickler for proper use of the language and spelling, and I'm actually grateful for it. I take the tack that you can be dumb as a box of rocks but if you speak and write well, you present an image of being smart. You can be smart as a whip and if you don't speak and write well, you can be perceived as not being very bright. Of course, that's just first impressions, but I confess to loving language and preferring to see it used correctly. It's weird...if I hear someone speaking on a subject who pronounces a word incorrectly, it really grabs my attention and for the rest of the time I tend to lose track of the intent and only hear the "goof" LOL. When things are written, my eye tends to automatically go to the error, but in general I can understand the intended meaning...although sometimes it gets a bit confusing and I have to go over it several times.

 

[gardendufus]

LOL, OK ColoradoGal I stand corrected. And a great BIG bonus to you.

Anyone want a bully GLW. Her last chance before slaughter. I have no problem slaughtering her, but don't want everyone yelling at me, so if you want to save her and bring her bully butt into YOUR flock, PM me, she's yours. I will NOT confine my flock over the winter with a girl who picks on 40% of the others and makes live a living H**L for half of those. She's worse now after segregation than she was before.

Funny this topic should come up on the thread I've been reading by Beekissed as she attempts to bring back a badly abused and neglected flock of her own. Only confirms my decision to get rid of this pullet. Just hope there's enough meat on her to give me a meal. But she's older than Wendell's flock, so that should be a good thing.

 

[Pozees]

LOL, OK ColoradoGal I stand corrected. And a great BIG bonus to you.

Anyone want a bully GLW. Her last chance before slaughter. I have no problem slaughtering her, but don't want everyone yelling at me, so if you want to save her and bring her bully butt into YOUR flock, PM me, she's yours. I will NOT confine my flock over the winter with a girl who picks on 40% of the others and makes live a living H**L for half of those. She's worse now after segregation than she was before.

Funny this topic should come up on the thread I've been reading by Beekissed as she attempts to bring back a badly abused and neglected flock of her own. Only confirms my decision to get rid of this pullet. Just hope there's enough meat on her to give me a meal. But she's older than Wendell's flock, so that should be a good thing.

How frustrating that she's even worse This is your flock, you have done all you can to try and keep her a member of the flock, and have no reason to keep battling this issue. I think you have made a sound decision based on the wellbeing of the rest of the flock and I will readily defend your right to butcher your own chicken. This is not a trait a breeder would want to perpetuate, and I don't anticipate someone with an established flock wanting to take the chance she will move in and begin bullying a whole new group.

To put it in perspective, I again relate it back to dogs, and state without hesitation that when a dog shows willingness, or worse, desire, to bite or bully a human or another dog, and training has not helped, the dog is no longer allowed to live. In the case of a dog it is not only unpleasant, it is a liability. Placing an otherwise peaceful group of any livestock or pet animals at risk undoes the benefit of having them in the first place. Letting your GLW terrorize your other hens will ultimately decrease production and quality of life for the rest of the flock and for you.

An animal who causes harm to other animals is a time bomb. Better to butcher your girl than to find yourself wanting to wring her neck in anger after she has injured or killed another. I am sorry it was not correctable.

 

[Chick_In_The_Burbs]

Well, I had an exciting morning. The chicks are 9 weeks old and it was getting crowded in the banty pen. 3 big chicks plus 3 Silkie chicks plus 2 adult banties in a 4x4 coop = CROWDED. Heck, the big chicks are bigger than their 'momma' now! So I captured the big guys(good lord they freaked out. They really don't like being handled) and transferred them to the Big Girl/Layers pen. I only had three gals in a 6x4 coop so they will have plenty of space now and since I rehomed my aggressive Sussex integration is going very well! They are only getting pecked for 'bad manners' incidents. Like trying to take bites of the special distraction treat directly from Sunny's beak. Silly little roo... There are also regular food and BOSS scattered around to hopefully help everyone eat and be mellow without creating crowding zones.

Gardendufus- good luck with your GLW. One way or another, there is only so much you can do with a bully. I managed to rehome mine and hopefully things went better for her in her new flock, but I was at the end of my rope with her so I understand the feeling. It was such a relief when she was gone, everyone mellowed out after that...

 

[Pozees]

Thank you, no that is a photo a one of my first homebreds "Classy" MVFClassicBourbon.

She is now 10 years old she rides and drives. Friends of mine have her now, she loves to drive her and all the grandkids ride her and she can cut a cow. She loves to work cows.
Here is a photo of my old girl Bridget.

And here is her daughter, one of the 5 I still have.

I just love my Rockys, the smooth ride and great temperment.
I have a 4 year old that I am starting when it cools off some more. A blue roan filly.umbup:
Maye
Ride the Glide......Got Gait.....I Do.....

Would love to see a pic of the blue roan filly Your horses are gorgeous!

 

[Minchi]

LOL, OK ColoradoGal I stand corrected. And a great BIG bonus to you.

Anyone want a bully GLW. Her last chance before slaughter. I have no problem slaughtering her, but don't want everyone yelling at me, so if you want to save her and bring her bully butt into YOUR flock, PM me, she's yours. I will NOT confine my flock over the winter with a girl who picks on 40% of the others and makes live a living H**L for half of those. She's worse now after segregation than she was before.

Funny this topic should come up on the thread I've been reading by Beekissed as she attempts to bring back a badly abused and neglected flock of her own. Only confirms my decision to get rid of this pullet. Just hope there's enough meat on her to give me a meal. But she's older than Wendell's flock, so that should be a good thing.

Does displacing a bully chicken do anything to cure them of it? Would a new enviroment and new chickens with there own structure have the effect to tame a bully or only make them worse?