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[daskhan]

Just an update the second parakeet died a few moments ago... So if anyone knows of some silkies 1-2 for sale or needs a home I don't think she minds if male or female let me know in the mean time up hhg her and get her some toys.... Or stuff animals or a plushy lol

 

[4aBetterWorld]

For those of us in Columbus, Indiana -

Chickens at the Board of Zoning Appeals - Come support two families in Columbus that are appealing a Code Enforcement Decision. We attest that Chickens can be pets and therefore should be allowed in the City of Columbus, Indiana. If the ruling is in our favor, anyone in the city can keep chickens as pets.

Date: Tuesday, August 25,2015
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: City Council Chamber, City Hall, 123 Washington Street,
Columbus Indiana

Pass the Word!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

For those of us in Columbus, Indiana -

Chickens at the Board of Zoning Appeals - Come support two families in Columbus that are appealing a Code Enforcement Decision. We attest that Chickens can be pets and therefore should be allowed in the City of Columbus, Indiana. If the ruling is in our favor, anyone in the city can keep chickens as pets.

Date: Tuesday, August 25,2015
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: City Council Chamber, City Hall, 123 Washington Street,
Columbus Indiana

Pass the Word!

Hi, welcome to BYC and our thread!!

A good person to look to for advice is @flyladyrocks she is currently fighting Indy rezone.

 

[Faraday40]

Zoning issues:
One thing that helped make hens legal in our town was a friendship with a very outspoken board member. I shared some fun chicken stories, educational lessons that I had taught, school programs, volunteer work, & of course gave her some delicious eggs with the many reasons why they're better than store eggs. She used her connections to bring up the idea to other members. Then a chef (from a well connected country club) wanted to add bees. Our village likes to think of itself as "green." The two ideas somehow got put together & after a few months of debate, both chickens & bees are now legal. Chickens were a gray area before. There were plenty of animal codes regarding placement of coops & chicken yards (so they must be legal), but also contradicting building codes stating that accessory structures - like coops & rabbit hutches - were not permitted. Basically, poultry & rabbits were fine unless someone complained. Now there's a lot more red tape, but the building codes have changed.

Short story: Make friends with a board member & donate some eggs. Not everyone will agree with you, but some educational info & connected friends will be your best defense.

 

[pbirdhaven]

Hope ya'll don't mind but I need to get a few things off my chest, just so its out.
Starting in Feb. of this year to today, I have been fighting illness after illness and loosing that battle. Some of you know I do rescues of all kinds. This year has been a goat year, and a bad one!! Between goat kids, chicks and 1 dog I have 41 new graves in my back pasture. and for the pst week i have been fighting Toxemia in my remaining kids, I am about to lose 1 and am treating 3 ( those 3 are preventive ) I am just sick of people that dont take care of thier animals and if I hear 1 more person say " it's just an animal " I will most likely end up in jail!! My heart is broken into a million pieces, I have not had time to heal from any of it it just hits 1 after the other. So I have decided that after this illness is gone one way or the other, I am done. God forgive me but I cant take anymore in. this is it I quite.
With all this going on I forgot what the date was ( bad on me ) I forgot that I was supposed to have my incubator egg start hatching yesterday, how can anyone forget a thing like that??? DH came in at 4 am and woke me from my 1 hour sleep and asked if I was ever going to take those chicks out and put them in the brooder???? I had no ideal what he was talking about!! Once awake and moving I realized I forgot the incubator!!!! I ran in to find 7 chicks alive and dry and 1 almost out. And more still working on it. It seems I'm going to have the best hatch since I started trying to hatch my own on the day I am ready to give up.
Now I wonder how many of this hatch am I going to loose???

I agree totally with what Hholly and daskhan say (see below). You have to take care of yourself. When a person flies on a commercial airline and is responsible for someone else, what does the flight attendant say about if the oxygen mask drops?

Just wanted to tell those struggling with their rescue animals... Give yourself a break and don't be too hard on yourself. Do the best you can, because it's way more than most people do. The animals know you care. Take care of yourselves, or you can't take care of anyone else. I work in an animal profession and I know there are people out there who collect or hoard animals and get overwhelmed. Knowing your limits is a good thing, and you can't save them all. Thanks to those that keep trying to help animals who need them.

What I'd like to say about this is 1.) we all love it when you vent because it's you telling us your problems showing you care about our thoughts and trust our opinions
2.) it's always good to vent it helps release stress so that we can continue to fight the good fight
3.) people who say they are just animals to me are mean hypocritical people...
To explain what I mean by that.. Although I am a religious person sorta(fuzzy on that) I also believe in evolution couldn't call myself intelligent while raising chickens and refusing evolution... But the point is we (humans) are just animals too so that statement holds no merit with me to why they should go and not the person " we need them to survive, they do not need us" also another quote I like is humans are a virus we destroy almost everything we come into contact with if someone were to only cure the planet of her sickness the world would thrive again. Now I don't always advocate the extinction of the human species but there's no good reason (in my mind) that we should hold ourselves higher then any other living creature or elemental thing we are all equal we all have our roles to play non is more important then the next(I think)
4.) if and when I get to the point I have a vehicle and a grasp on what I'm doing here I will more then gladly help you share your load of work and care. even if it's just driving up on the weekend or something to help out.. I'm also sure that I'm not the only one...hell might even count to college volunteer work or something idk... But I think there's help out there if you simply ask.. I bet we could like start a shelter or something where we all spend a few hours or days volunteering there
I thank you all for reading and I apologize if my words were to harsh for anyone or to offensive

I came home from work yesterday very excited to see this baby for the first time! She was MISSING.

The other fact I noticed: Mom's crop was really full.

Dunno what happened between 2 hours before I got home, and when I got home, but Mom must've eaten the chick for some reason. Did the chick die and Mom was cleaning the nest? Dunno. I don't know if poultry even do that sort of thing.

I moved Mom and remaining 6 eggs into solitaire. I'm so BUMMED!

Oh, how disappointing!

Can peerikeets die from egg laying?

I don't know about parakeets, but I lost two cockatiels that way--one had a yolk embolism and the other a bound egg pressing into the liver. I had both necropsied to be sure that there was nothing contagious.

 

[daskhan]

I was informed today they wernt parakeets but cockatiels

 

[SallyinIndiana]

I can't find the exact post right now. But I think someone asked about buying some goats. I have a friend in Southern Indiana that is selling some of her extra male kids from this spring's kidding season. Now these were bottle fed kids so they are very very friendly. They are disbudded. She has both wethered and breedable bucks available. In much the same way that I got lots of roosters this hatching season, she got lots of males this kidding season. Its been a year for males with people I know.
These are wonderful goats. They have a great milking line. And if one is getting into dairy goats it is typically easier and cheaper to have a buck for breeding or a weather for a friend if you only want 1 milking goat.

Please message me for more information.




The wether. Some wonderful coloring.

 

[daskhan]

I can't find the exact post right now. But I think someone asked about buying some goats. I have a friend in Southern Indiana that is selling some of her extra male kids from this spring's kidding season. Now these were bottle fed kids so they are very very friendly. They are disbudded. She has both wethered and breedable bucks available. In much the same way that I got lots of roosters this hatching season, she got lots of males this kidding season. Its been a year for males with people I know. These are wonderful goats. They have a great milking line. And if one is getting into dairy goats it is typically easier and cheaper to have a buck for breeding or a weather for a friend if you only want 1 milking goat. Please message me for more information. The wether. Some wonderful coloring.

It was for a friend and she mentioned Pygmy so I don't know if this would work or not

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I had their dad last winter. He was very friendly and fun. We miss him a lot. But yes nubians are much larger than the dwarf goats.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Hi, all. I know I haven't been terribly active here in the past months, but I thought I would stop by and let those of you who admired her through my pictures and stories that my beloved Frou-Frou left us today. I am beside myself with grief at the moment, so apologies for the lack of detail. I'm just without the words right now.