Nevadans?

[Flowers of Abba]

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Your plan sounds great for the time being. I am in S.L.T. Ca and of course it differs from city to city. And people say they know more than they really do. So I went straight to the local animal control. They are the ones that will receive any animal complaints so why not cut it off at the pass!!! Our loop hole is that our chickens are pets not livestock. It's not o.k. to process livestock in the basin. Which is fine for us because you can't eat something once you name it in our house.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Okay, the 'why' and 'when' first!

Well, these two are hens, not chicks, so it was a bit more complicated. One was given to me this summer
as a 5 mo. old (Jean) and the other (Rosie) I got off craigslist as a 3 yr. old. Jean had just started molting
when I got her. This is Jean, a Speckled Sussex, about 2 weeks ago.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44629_dsc09238.jpg
Recently, after she was fully refeathered, I noticed Jean had some crusty, dried poo on her butt one day.
I thought it might fall off. It didn't and it soon began to accumulate so today we washed her really good
and clipped the feathers around her vent. She has never laid an egg for me but is now so red in the face
and comb she almost flashes. I've been including red pepper flakes/cayenne pepper powder in the mash
every few days to see if we could get things started & I hated the thought of all that poo in the way.

Rosie, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, arrived in horrible shape, underweight, molting & with a nasty, pasty,
super stinky bare butt.
[URL]https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44629_dsc08085.jpg[/URL] [URL]https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44629_dsc08097.jpg[/URL]
This was Rosies 2nd full on bath. As her feathers grew in she was still kinda splatting poo so it looked like she
had dreads on her rear-end.

She is much better now (this was 2 weeks ago) but I guess I hadn't done
a good enough job the 1st time.

She's now been scrubbed, clipped and blow dried.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/44629_dsc09102.jpg
Her comb has been a dusky pink color though her wattles have really reddened up this past week and she
has become quite vocal, so I was really quite surprised when about an hour after her bath she got in a nest.
A first from what I've seen. When she got out, after about an hour, I was completely astonished to see ...
an egg.

She was the last one we expected to lay. There were at least four others that I had thought would
begin to lay before her. I texted a picture of the egg to my dad and had him guess who had laid it, he guessed
wrong of course and when I told him who it was ... he told me to bathe them all!

I think it's the peppers, not the bathing, that worked ... and that's not just self-preservation talking either!

As far as the 'how' goes ... I learned that here, on BYC, of course!

OK, I've never had to deal with this. Hopefully you won't either!

Hi Penturner! Welcome to the Nevada thread. I sent you a PM answering this question to the best of my knowledge. If I turn out to be wrong don't tell my neighbors!

Flowers of Alba that is too funny! How old are your kids?
BTW welcome to the Nevada thread!

 

[evonne]

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Your plan sounds great for the time being. I am in S.L.T. Ca and of course it differs from city to city. And people say they know more than they really do. So I went straight to the local animal control. They are the ones that will receive any animal complaints so why not cut it off at the pass!!! Our loop hole is that our chickens are pets not livestock. It's not o.k. to process livestock in the basin. Which is fine for us because you can't eat something once you name it in our house.

you can always plead ignorance the first time....
i'm not sposed to have roosters.... i have... um... 11?? lol... animal control takes their break parked on my street sometimes, and i was talking to him and he said he wouldn't come out to check on it unless he got a complaint from neighbors....
i think the neighborhood around us are too ignorant too look up the rules... except the one hwo lives right behind me, and he has illegal roosters too... lol.... but he did tell me that where we are chickens are livestock and limited to 4.2 per acre... hello.... 4 chickens on an acre??
really??? and that's all livestock together... so my 3 goats, 1 donkey, 30+ chickens 3 ducks and 4 peafowl are WAY over the limit.....

i'm betting the jungle fowl you could push about not being livestock too.. aren't they endangered or something?? if nothing else, they are NOT livestock.... i would push the exotic issue... theres a topic area for local ordanances and how to get them changed, might be worth reading through and seeing if you can find where someone else has changed the laws on jungle fowl.. if you can go in front of a judge and say this county in this state has made these exotic pets, they may be more likley to go with it... granted, they may then slap you with the having exotic pets without the proper permits.. lol...

good luck!! i want to see pics when you get them.... there's a guy in CA that has some and they're beautiful birds

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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OK - just what does a .2 livestock look like? Is that a chick, calf, or foal? A leg from an adult animal?

That is just silly.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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I do not want to say no to gifts for our table, but will need to work on a quarantine pen first - my Qpen has been taken over.

Maybe try "hiding" the pet - soup, tacos, pot pie - and just not saying that this is Mr. Roo - just let them thing it is store chicken?

Don't mean to chuckle at a wasted meal, but it did. I grew up eating what we or I named, so know it can be hard, but my oh my, the flavor is yummy to me.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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Nevadans thread

I would also check with animal control.

Here is an article in the RGJ - http://www.rgj.com/article/20100204/OPED02/2040320/In-tough-times--let-us-keep-hens States Reno residents can have chickens - Sparks residents cannot.

 

[laceynoelle]

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I do not want to say no to gifts for our table, but will need to work on a quarantine pen first - my Qpen has been taken over.

Maybe try "hiding" the pet - soup, tacos, pot pie - and just not saying that this is Mr. Roo - just let them thing it is store chicken?

Don't mean to chuckle at a wasted meal, but it did. I grew up eating what we or I named, so know it can be hard, but my oh my, the flavor is yummy to me.

lol i know what youre saying about the flavor. i feel bad, but if you start raising a particular group of chicks specifically for that, then it isnt so bad. What i hate is when dad feels like having fresh chciken, and he'll say 'okay go get one' and the only ones out there are my pet. then i feel like the exicutioner, and dont like it.

 

[evonne]

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I do not want to say no to gifts for our table, but will need to work on a quarantine pen first - my Qpen has been taken over.

Maybe try "hiding" the pet - soup, tacos, pot pie - and just not saying that this is Mr. Roo - just let them thing it is store chicken?

Don't mean to chuckle at a wasted meal, but it did. I grew up eating what we or I named, so know it can be hard, but my oh my, the flavor is yummy to me.

lol i know what youre saying about the flavor. i feel bad, but if you start raising a particular group of chicks specifically for that, then it isnt so bad. What i hate is when dad feels like having fresh chciken, and he'll say 'okay go get one' and the only ones out there are my pet. then i feel like the exicutioner, and dont like it.

i feel that way too... none of the chickens we have rght now are dinner for us... i have no problem having chickens that will be dinner, but they will be in a different pen and not have names... or if they do it will be taco and nugget and smoke... and... lol..

 

[SunnyDawn]

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lol i know what youre saying about the flavor. i feel bad, but if you start raising a particular group of chicks specifically for that, then it isnt so bad. What i hate is when dad feels like having fresh chciken, and he'll say 'okay go get one' and the only ones out there are my pet. then i feel like the exicutioner, and dont like it.

i feel that way too... none of the chickens we have rght now are dinner for us... i have no problem having chickens that will be dinner, but they will be in a different pen and not have names... or if they do it will be taco and nugget and smoke... and... lol..

 

[KandJsmama]

Calling all the Southern Nevadans (No offense to the Northerners, just don't think you want to drive that far

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Has anyone heard of this and are you going?

http://lasvegas.craigslist.org/grd/1600557140.html