Texas

[ShadowsFIAL]

Check this out

http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...t=http://codes.franklinlegal.net/lubbock-flp/

Doesn't look like they're technically illegal.

It sure doesn't =/

 

[henless]

Anyone else have any suggestions for planting flowers around the coop? I am planning on letting Trumpet Vines take over the top of my run for shade, and planting some turk's cap on the left side and back of the coop in planter boxes. I was looking for some shorter plants to put on the right side and the front to give the chickens space to look out but still make it look nice and to cover up the chicken wire I am going to put out to deter digging from predators and pests.

I had thought about planting wild Trumpet vines to cover my coop, but decided that as it grew larger it would eventually mess up my wire. I'm using 1/2" hardare cloth, so the openings are small. I did plant pole beans this summer to climb up the side of my coop. It gave the girls plenty of shade.


This was at the start of summer. The whole end was covered by the end of summer.

I am new to BYC, my family and I have been researching and getting ready to start a few hens and were so excited until.... Just got off phone with city offices and they said no chickens in Lubbock city limits she said we live just outside the city limit (barely) and it may be permitted. Told to contact county offices. Feeling discouraged

Hope everything works out and ya'll get to get your chickens.

 

[dstinett]

Keep in mind that plants around the coop are perfect homes for snakes. I'm having a horrible time with rat snakes. I don't mind giving up a few eggs but they are big enough to kill my chickens. It has gotten better since clearing all the brush around the coop

 

[3chickchicks]

Thanks all for your help.
I ended up finding a lady who had both breeds I wanted (Welsummer and easter egger was my top pick) though a little young. So I've got a small run set up for them. Weird that the 7.5 week old Welsummer wants to roost but the 8 week old easter egger doesn't.
I always feel so bad taking a little bird from what they know and hearing them cry while trying to figure out where to bed down for the night. Once they're older and introduced, they'll have a sweet chicken life where they get to wander around a big yard chasing bugs, dust bathing, and doing all that fun chicken stuff.

 

[tiedyemommy]

I'm such a newbie...I just read something about needing to clip chicken toenails. I was not aware this was a thing, and I wanted to know everyone's take on it. Do you clip your chickens' toenails? What do you use? How short do you go? How often?

Bootsy (front) & Barbarella (back) say, "goodnight folks".

 

[losttexan]

I am new to BYC, my family and I have been researching and getting ready to start a few hens and were so excited until.... Just got off phone with city offices and they said no chickens in Lubbock city limits she said we live just outside the city limit (barely) and it may be permitted. Told to contact county offices. Feeling discouraged

Like all legal questions, the answer is "maybe":
http://m.lubbockonline.com/local-ne...kens-are-legal-some-areas-often-fun#gsc.tab=0

If you are in the county (like I am), and you aren't subject to any deed restrictions, tell them to go pound sand and get your chickens.

 

[Katiebt]

Thanks losttexan, that is pretty much what my husband says too! I had read that article too, and that prompted me to call the city. Seems like we are okay, out of city limits and in the county. Yeah! So speaking of Lubbock, have you used a local place to get chicks or just done mail order. We are new to Lubbock also and I have been trying to figure that out. Thanks!

 

[Bazy]

Thanks all for your help.
I ended up finding a lady who had both breeds I wanted (Welsummer and easter egger was my top pick) though a little young. So I've got a small run set up for them. Weird that the 7.5 week old Welsummer wants to roost but the 8 week old easter egger doesn't.
I always feel so bad taking a little bird from what they know and hearing them cry while trying to figure out where to bed down for the night. Once they're older and introduced, they'll have a sweet chicken life where they get to wander around a big yard chasing bugs, dust bathing, and doing all that fun chicken stuff.

Oh, hearing them cry is so sad! When I moved my "little" chicks, 2 1/2 months old into the new hen house and put them on a roost, they cried and cried..it was just pitiful! I felt like such a HEEL! But I was taking four of them out of the single nesting box where my alpha hen confined them every night to a nice big easy roost in the fresh air! Nope. they all four 4 pound chickens crowded onto the same roost and cried and cried.. I had to move them every night for a week because they would get on the baby chicks (6 weeks) cage and poop on them all night!! Hosing down (figuratively of course) 16 chicks every morning toughened my skin enough to ignore them crying and get their butts on the roost and off the babies! The pullets go to the roost now, but the sissy roosters still try to roost over the babies! Grrr!! I finally named the dudes..One is Sunday and the other is Dinner!

 

[bnjrob]

I'm such a newbie...I just read something about needing to clip chicken toenails. I was not aware this was a thing, and I wanted to know everyone's take on it. Do you clip your chickens' toenails? What do you use? How short do you go? How often?

We clip nails (and spurs) for different reasons such as - we are getting ready to do a routine exam and need to handle a chicken that doesn't like to be handled so we cut the nails first thing, when the males are wearing too much on the hens' feathers when mating, when the few males that live together wind up in a big bloody fight and they won't stop fighting until we take away their weapons.

We use dog nail clippers.

Their "quick" is WAY down into the end of the nail, so we just do the tiniest bit on the ends to blunt them, and we do this also with the spurs. We always have a styptic pencil or some flour and paper towels just in case we accidently get someone's quick, but after the first time or two of clipping, you get the feel for just how much is needed - and it's really just the tiniest bit on the ends to blunt them. Then we do the same to blunt the spurs on the roosters.

Unless you are showing your birds, or having issues like I mentioned, there isn't really a reason to clip nails unless your chickens are not doing enough scratching and you notice that their nails are getting funky and too long.

 

[tiedyemommy]

We clip nails (and spurs) for different reasons such as - we are getting ready to do a routine exam and need to handle a chicken that doesn't like to be handled so we cut the nails first thing, when the males are wearing too much on the hens' feathers when mating, when the few males that live together wind up in a big bloody fight and they won't stop fighting until we take away their weapons. 

We use dog nail clippers. 

Their "quick" is WAY down into the end of the nail, so we just do the tiniest bit on the ends to blunt them, and we do this also with the spurs.  We always have a styptic pencil or some flour and paper towels just in case we accidently get someone's quick, but after the first time or two of clipping, you get the feel for just how much is needed - and it's really just the tiniest bit on the ends to blunt them.  Then we do the same to blunt the spurs on the roosters.

Unless you are showing your birds, or having issues like I mentioned, there isn't really a reason to clip nails unless your chickens are not doing enough scratching and you notice that their nails are getting funky and too long.

Thank you!