Plymouth MA?

[Super Admin]

Any one from Plymouth MA or anywhere near by? Would love to hear your storys/advise.

 

[smileyfacecat]

Not Plymouth, but close!

 

[rubyeta]

Hello! I am on the cape! new to this site, but not new to keeping chickens!

 

[Trevi70]

Hi there
I'm from the Plymouth area. Always great to meet fellow chicken-raisers here. Looking for some new chickens for my flock but really didn't want to hatch eggs and do the whole incubator thing. I can't have a brood of chicks in my house. My dogs would go nuts and I think I would to after a few weeks. We shall see tho...

 

[leased94]

Hi, I am from Plymouth, have never raised chickens. Would like to. Do you know the By-laws in Plymouth pertaining to the ownership of chickens. My yard has a 6'ft stockade fence. But neighbors are close. Do I need their permission . I live just a block from the old rte 44 (carver rd)

 

[AmyV6603]

Hi! I'm from Plymouth too!

We just got our first group of chicks last week!

 

[lilygombosh]

From Plymouth as well.....got chicks in July!

 

[leased94]

Hi, I am from Plymouth, have never raised chickens. Would like to. Do you know the By-laws in Plymouth pertaining to the ownership of chickens. My yard has a 6'ft stockade fence. But neighbors are close. Do I need their permission . I live just a block from the old rte 44 (carver rd)

well, it.s me again! 6months later. Plymouth, Ma is farm country, so i didn't need a permit of any sort.
In March, I bought 3 buff orpingtons,and 3 red pullets,(
I think they might be rhode island reds) from Tractor Suppy in Carver.
Not knowing any better on April 23, I picked up 3 black sex links and 3 new hampshire reds.
So, of course, i had to keep them separate from the first ones.
I had a 4x8 box for the first 6 in my family room downstairs.
I kept the next 6 in a dog crate top and bottom to make it about5-6 ft. with the corrugated cardboard and chicken wire.
when I set up the coop in a 12X12 dog kennel enclosure.I had to keep them separated until they were all close to the same size.
It was alot of extra work, I know now to buy them all at the same time so their pecking order is established.
Anyway, all summer they free ranged 1/2 of my yard.now they are in the dog enclosure, i like it better when they are out in the yard doing chicken things,
now with winter here, I am experiencing the weather.#@#@##
forgot about that little bother! Experienced my first frozen water. bought a heater for the waterer but now trying to keep the hose from
freezing. going to try heat trace tape.
oh yeah, chickens are happy healthy and laying lots of eggs
Well, hope somebody is reading this. thanks

 

[chilaman]

HELLO-I'M FROM PLYMOUTH MA. as well i started with 6 comet's in JULY of 2012---i was new to it--it was pretty easy w/ just a little research on raising them---it has been very rewarding--lookin fwd to getting a few more this summer as well---just from my 6 chickens -i get 6 eggs a day, consitently---they are great producers----there are so many different kinds to choose from it's hard to choice which to get.I keep the coop warm with a smalll heater i bought at Walmart for $15 (200 watts)---if it really dips down in temp i got another one to put on and it does the trick.---summer time they are in the shade-so it's nice and cool where they are.I let them out and roam the yard from time to time.----no fence so i gotta keep an eye on them---dogs all around.

 

[lilygombosh]

Plymouth as well! I also got 6 chicks in July and now all are laying. I use a heated waterer on the cold days, and a light on the coop. I have some Silkies, Austrolorp, Buff Brahma, Easter Egger, And Wyandotte's. My Easter Egger is laying green eggs-and yesterday laid the hugest egg I have ever seen-like double the others-poor thing!