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We are all crazy and there is nothing more to say to that....fortunately we have found a place to congregate and share our natural tendency's toward insanity...what we call "Chicken Keeping"....there is definitely NO cure for this and if there was of course we wouldn't want it anyway...because we are crazy
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...so embrace your your lunacy and be happy
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...I know my feathered friends understand me...
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wingstone said:
Can someone verify that I am getting this right...I really do not want to call the state.
As far as the meaties that I raise, to my understanding as long s the consumer of such meat is picking up from the place it was raised, I am perfectly legal at selling as long as I sell this in small numbers

Thinking about turning a spare room into an actual butcher room and getting a license to use it,,,but for the time being just how shady is my operation

Having a hard time with the legal mumbo jombo,,,it is all in a foreign language to me
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I know in Ohio, you can only sell the birds you process yourself from your own property. You can not take them to swaps or sales. They have to be picked up from you & can not be delivered to any one. If you want to sell them off-property, you have tio have them processed & packaged by a 3rd party. Not sure if PA is the same or not but was thinking this is pretty much country wide.

wingstone said:
Thanks Stake,,,fortunately I already have a lot of the stainless steel..
Really need to understand these laws better,,I am sure that it is different depending on whether I do the transporting off the farm or not...
Do they word these things so confusingly on purpose??
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See above.

galgo98 said:
Quote: Calls can & will fly unless you keep them clipped or keep them in a covered enclosure. Sometimes they stay & never even think about leaving & sometimes they dissappear never to be seen again. I don't take a chance. Mine are clipped or in a covered enclosure at all times. I have too much money in them to take chances.

barbiegirl said:
I started with only wanting 6 hens. Hahaha, have more than that now. Plus guinea fowl and a new flock of turkeys. Watch out, it's a very, very bad disorder lol
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Now you need ducks, geese, quail, pheasants, peas, emus, ostrich...
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LisaYolkUm said:
I think I might have contracted some type of weird disease and I would like to blame my chickens .............or this blog.............or someone?????

You see-----I just got this crazy idea to build my own chicken coop with all repurposed materials..........and raise "just a few" chickens in my backyard.........a small
project...........use low cost items and make it nice and natural for the chickens and acceptable to my surburban neighborhood.

Now..........it seems I am

spending more money an special treats for the girls than their actual food costs.
thinking of interesting décor around the run........just bought some daffodil bulbs and am planning a light sun spring lettuce garden

and today-----a very serious symptom........hope its not .too late for me.....but while at the tractor supply store to pick up some more basic poultry food I bought this item
which cost more than a 50 lb bag of pellets.........

MORE THAN 50 lb bag of PELLETS...............

honestly ----------I don't think the chickens care what type of container their food comes in ...........just that it comes frequently and is yummy
they stand in their food
poop in their food
scratch wood chips into their food bowl............etc etc etc

I have been working on keeping the food bowls upright and free from non-food materials problem regularly.............with mixed results.......and TODAY

I was sooooooo happy when I found this:


its soooo cute! and adorondack swing as a feeder...................wahoo! and my containers fit in................and I think I have this condition or disease really bad like there is no turning back!

Yet I don't think I want the cure either..................

Just sharing!
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Lisa, that is really cute!
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The big girls would totally jump on that and ruin it if I had it hanging!! They are like monkeys!! We are currently working on a "tube feeder", for the dry-stuff....it is nice to have when we go away, Also nipple waterer...with the pvc tubing. For in the chick cage will be making a bottle-nipple waterer. Trying to make things easier ....
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galgo98 said:
They are really cute! This may be obvious to most, but I'm gonna ask anyway...
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Are their wings clipped or are they pinioned or are they in a covered enclosure? A friend got some last year and he swore their wings were clipped. I told him you have to re-clip after they moult, but he said they were fine. However, after about 5 months of them not even trying to fly, they took off over the neighbors house never to be seen again... His 5 yr old daughter was a mess. For cute, little domestic ducks, they still have a pretty strong innate urge to migrate!!!
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I checked them as we took them out of the carrier. They're all clipped. The only one I still need to clip is Elvis our scovy boy, I have a feeling that's going to be a trick and a half...
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archerobx said:
We found the mother ship
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Shhhh...you'll freak out the non-believers

barbiegirl said:
Haha, hubby wants some emus in the future
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Seth said no to the ostriches but he hasn't technically said no to emus in the future hehehe. I'd really like some alpaca and a llama to help with protection.
 
Looks like we have our first broody chicken. She's only been sitting tight since about noon so who knows, but I haven't been able to find much info on if tetras tend towards broodiness.



ETA: picking up another Serama hen, her chicks and some chicks that were hatched in a bator tomorrow
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BirdbyGavin1103 said:
I checked them as we took them out of the carrier. They're all clipped. The only one I still need to clip is Elvis our scovy boy, I have a feeling that's going to be a trick and a half...
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Shhhh...you'll freak out the non-believers

Seth said no to the ostriches but he hasn't technically said no to emus in the future hehehe. I'd really like some alpaca and a llama to help with protection.
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be very careful with the llama, had one from a baby and one evening when he was around 7 yrs old, he turned nasty, knocked my husband down five times before he called me on his cell to come back him off (llama) so he could get out of the pasture, after that he never turned sweet again and after a year with him trying to hurt us, my husband put him down. essay was not a super tame llama either, we never made a pet out of him. when they decide they're going to turn on you, doesn't matter if they're tame or not, they just turn and yes he had a female llama that was his "wife"
 

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