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[cardinalmaccio]

hello
I just wanted to advise that Bristol allows 12 chickens, including roosters, so maybe you can keep the buff if he turns out to be one.

 

[Jakoda]

I'd wait and see on the Buff, one of mine has a large comb/wattles but is definitely a girlie

 

[andreya]

Really? Because the link on this site to the zoning laws that I originally read said no roosters but it was I think 2010? I just checked an amended version on the Bristol City website and it didn't specifically say no roosters. So we can have them?

I posted pictures on the what is it section and every single person said they think it's a roo.

Here are a few more of her (him?):





I want to keep it. I already know that my neighbor on one side has a problem with roosters.

 

[andreya]

So I double checked and on this link from BYC (what I originally read) it says in a little box at the top "Are roosters allowed?" and then "No." for an answer.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/bristol-connecticut-chicken-ordinance

Although reading the actual zoning ordinance and looked up the most recent amended version and neither specifically say that you can't have a rooster, only that you can have 12 "fowl".

Thank you guys! Now I just need to sway my neighbor (he's nice) or hope that my buff either turns out to be a hen, or doesn't learn how to crow. There was a rooster on my street the first week I lived here and he only crowed one day, so I assumed from the beginning that they weren't allowed.

 

[Diadado]

I'm not seeing any which brings me to the question of do chickens eat deer ticks. My daughter in law insists they don't but since I started with free range chickens about the yard I don't see them anymore. Any one know the difinitive answer to do chickens eat deer ticks?

Ours are young but have eaten 2 of them off my husband's hand. If he gets one he now heads for the chickens.

 

[redrstr29]

I say roo not because of the comb, but the legs!!They are like tree trunks lol

,,,,I sympathize lol

 

[Diadado]

Really? Because the link on this site to the zoning laws that I originally read said no roosters but it was I think 2010? I just checked an amended version on the Bristol City website and it didn't specifically say no roosters. So we can have them?

I posted pictures on the what is it section and every single person said they think it's a roo.

Here are a few more of her (him?):





I want to keep it. I already know that my neighbor on one side has a problem with roosters.

I posted pics of my Buffs in another thread and was told Buff's are extremely easy to sex at less than 10 days or so because of the feathers on the wings so I'd say if you got it as a young sexed pullet it will be. I was also told no doubt my 3 were pullets and I noticed tonight one of mine is getting wattles at age 7 weeks.

 

[andreya]

redrstr: Tell me about it. His feet are HUGE. That was one of the first things I noticed compared to my others. I know that they are different breeds, but he is just huge. I didn't notice how "rooster-y" he looked though until I took the pictures.

diadado: The person I got them from said that he thought that all the ones I got were female. They weren't separated by sex though. I would obviously prefer for it to be a hen, but from everything I can find, all roads are leaning towards a 'roo.

 

[redrstr29]

lol maybe its a butch hen lol lol, its still pretty wether it be cacciatore or not.....lol

 

[andreya]

Possibly. lol

Noooo one is eating my baby!