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DogAndCat36 said:
Hi! I live in Monticello, Maine (ain't going further than that!) and would like to know if anyone is close to me, maybe just too hang out online, do chicken echanges, sell chickens (even though I would never sell my hens or certain roosters), or just so I can know if there is anyone nearby, I would also like it if I could buy chicks from somewhere or find a friend that can chicken sit. (They would have to be GREAT friends though) :)
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Check out CraigsLIst.org. they have an ad in Farm&Garden about a place in Waterville. 25,000 chick over stock hatch. I know Waterville might be too far away from you. But you never know. BTW I don't insulate my coop nor do I light it at night. I have 13 "heaters" (AKA Laying hens) in there . They snuggle and keep warm. I keep a gallon of water ( Arizona Ice tea jug) in there all winter. If the water is frozen I know it was a cold night. Maybe once or twice it was skimmed over in the morning. But my hens roost higher than where the water is stored. The water is also stored right against the wall. Birds lived outside before we domesticated them. The run at 106 F. Check under them to see how warm they are and also check under their wings. Think of it this way. Would you spend all night inside with a down coat on? As for a heat lamp NOOOOOO. Many people have lost all their birds to fire. Good luck finding you some chickens.
 
Oldenburg Mom said:
Hello Maine people.

Question for you: thinking about retiring to Maine...but am hearing horror stories about the bugs. Don’t mind the cold, hate summer heat. Have chickens and horses. What’s the scoop? Do you mind??
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BUGS, are everywhere. We have a short season on black flies, they are a pain, but it's over quick, mosquitos depending on where you hang out like on the water fishing. By the ocean there are large look like housefly they called greenheads they bite they also called horse flies they're not by the ocean but usually there around some sort of water. There are most definitely text if you have hunting dogs or you go out and do any deer bear rabbit bird hunting you will more than likely get ticks on you and so will your dogs. I've lived here all my 43 years and I've been places where the bugs are ridiculous and I don't feel like they're too too bad around here maybe because I'm used to it or maybe because they're just really not that prevalent.
 
Not a water person; we’ve got greenies here in humid VA. Ticks, horseflies, yes, skeeters too. How does it impact your chickens? Do you have any other critters? I am not a hunter (eat very little meat, no chicken). And was hoping to find a place like this: 48 Page Rd, Fort Fairfield, ME 04742, except it’s near a pond.

So, is it just summer bugs? And I assume winter starts October? Then the bugs are gone?? How’s the humidity??
 
Oldenburg Mom said:
Not a water person; we’ve got greenies here in humid VA. Ticks, horseflies, yes, skeeters too. How does it impact your chickens? Do you have any other critters? I am not a hunter (eat very little meat, no chicken). And was hoping to find a place like this: 48 Page Rd, Fort Fairfield, ME 04742, except it’s near a pond.

So, is it just summer bugs? And I assume winter starts October? Then the bugs are gone?? How’s the humidity??
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Summers are hot a mostly humid but it's short season. Chickens will eat most of the bugs, I don't think ticks have made their way up there yet. Pray for bats they eat bugs, Hawks are a problem. They eat chickens. Winter starts whenever it wants to, some years tons of snow some almost none. Not a bug in site I've seen in the winter. As far as other critters, squirrels mice rats Voles moles, no poisonous snakes to speak of there have been cases of brown recluse and black widow but I've never known anybody or seen anybody who's ever been affected.
I do keep these closeted catchers for like the house flies around the outside of the coop and they will catch so many flies I just amw a firm believer in keeping food locked up in metal C-Vaults. I clean the coop daily and keep the trash under the barn far away from the chickens. I rinse down the entire run and the concrete pad the coop is on every night after my girls go to bed. Little bleach little dawn, powerful hose. Maine is a beautiful place to live and you'll get as much as you may wantforw help, if you just ask any mainer with a farm.
 
Amy Brock said:
I clean the coop daily and keep the trash under the barn far away from the chickens. I rinse down the entire run and the concrete pad the coop is on every night after my girls go to bed.
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😲 Woah. That has got be one clean run. I haven't cleaned my coop in two years! :oops:

Amy Brock said:
Maine is a beautiful place to live and you'll get as much as you may wantforw help, if you just ask any mainer with a farm.
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Agreed! It's a little slice of heaven up here in the dawnland.
 

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