Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[puglady]

Building permits are required for permanent structures here. None of our coops are permanent. That stinks. I'm so glad our neighbors don't mind the roosters.

Hummmm. The large coop has 4x4s cemented in however the other coops are raised on 4x4's. Heavy but could be loaded onto a truck of flat bed an moved. Gives me something to check out.....I'd like to find a loop hole and not have to get a permit every time I wanted to expand a bit.
As for neighbors I recently sold some straight run Silies to a customer who told me she wasn't allowed to have roos. She told me that she was planning on a trade off with her neigbors. She'd overlook them smoking pot (still illegal where she is) if the neighbors would overlook the crowing!

 

[madamwlf]

Hummmm. The large coop has 4x4s cemented in however the other coops are raised on 4x4's. Heavy but could be loaded onto a truck of flat bed an moved. Gives me something to check out.....I'd like to find a loop hole and not have to get a permit every time I wanted to expand a bit.
As for neighbors I recently sold some straight run Silies to a customer who told me she wasn't allowed to have roos. She told me that she was planning on a trade off with her neigbors. She'd overlook them smoking pot (still illegal where she is) if the neighbors would overlook the crowing!

Well, that's one way to deal with it. I would say silkies don't crow that loud but I would be lying. Mine is quite loud for such a little guy. Speaking of crowing, one of my silkie juvies crowed this morning. Little Mohawk was crowing his heart out. I named him Mohawk because he is a paint and he has a black stripe going down the back of his neck.

 

[pysankigirl]

I looked into zoning here and if it doesn't have a permanent foundation and isn't over a certain size, then it is considered a temporary structure (like one of those sheds you can buy) and it doesn't need a building permit...and it can have electricity, but no plumbing.

so all my coops have to be below 200 sq feet and built on those foundation blocks. I can do that!

 

[caj1985]

I looked into zoning here and if it doesn't have a permanent foundation and isn't over a certain size, then it is considered a temporary structure (like one of those sheds you can buy) and it doesn't need a building permit...and it can have electricity, but no plumbing.

so all my coops have to be below 200 sq feet and built on those foundation blocks. I can do that!

This is another advantage to living in the country. To paraphrase, "we don't need no stinkin' permits."

I don't even have to have anything to build a totally new house. I just have to have the septic system reviewed if we change or add one.

 

[Dahlisgrams]

I looked into zoning here and if it doesn't have a permanent foundation and isn't over a certain size, then it is considered a temporary structure (like one of those sheds you can buy) and it doesn't need a building permit...and it can have electricity, but no plumbing.

so all my coops have to be below 200 sq feet and built on those foundation blocks. I can do that!

Nice. Anything over a ten x ten needs a permit in these parts...

 

[Bettacreek]

I'm to the point of crying. I've had a bad headache today, so didn't check the incubator, which usually isn't a problem, but it just so happened to spike to 122. All 90 eggs are dead! I had my turkeys' first eggs, the last hopes of pekin duck eggs from my now dead drake, an assortment of eggs from the chicken ladies, and of course paint silkies, hen's choice silkies from the same person, my buff D'Uccles and BCM's from Ayeupchuck! Ninety babies in there and all dead now. I feel so selfish for not checking it this morning. I know they're "just eggs" but I had just pulled all of the infertiles, so there were two flats of definitely fertile eggs, most close to hatch, plus all of the now grey blobs that were going to be babies in the newly set eggs. I feel like a mass chick murderer.

 

[madamwlf]

I'm to the point of crying. I've had a bad headache today, so didn't check the incubator, which usually isn't a problem, but it just so happened to spike to 122. All 90 eggs are dead! I had my turkeys' first eggs, the last hopes of pekin duck eggs from my now dead drake, an assortment of eggs from the chicken ladies, and of course paint silkies, hen's choice silkies from the same person, my buff D'Uccles and BCM's from Ayeupchuck! Ninety babies in there and all dead now.

I feel so selfish for not checking it this morning. I know they're "just eggs" but I had just pulled all of the infertiles, so there were two flats of definitely fertile eggs, most close to hatch, plus all of the now grey blobs that were going to be babies in the newly set eggs. I feel like a mass chick murderer.

Oh goodness, that is a rough day.

It happens. Don't beat yourself up over it.

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Quote: Oh no!!!!! I'm so sorry for your loss... I really hope your headache improves..

 

[caj1985]

I'm to the point of crying. I've had a bad headache today, so didn't check the incubator, which usually isn't a problem, but it just so happened to spike to 122. All 90 eggs are dead! I had my turkeys' first eggs, the last hopes of pekin duck eggs from my now dead drake, an assortment of eggs from the chicken ladies, and of course paint silkies, hen's choice silkies from the same person, my buff D'Uccles and BCM's from Ayeupchuck! Ninety babies in there and all dead now.

I feel so selfish for not checking it this morning. I know they're "just eggs" but I had just pulled all of the infertiles, so there were two flats of definitely fertile eggs, most close to hatch, plus all of the now grey blobs that were going to be babies in the newly set eggs. I feel like a mass chick murderer.

So sorry.

 

[babymakes6]

Oh no!!!!! I'm so sorry for your loss... I really hope your headache improves..

X 2!