yes, I am not seeing much red so am hoping he is a keeper to produce some eggs for hatching down the road.
Cute pics thanks for sharingCorn on the cob, It was left over and covered in corn when i hung it.
Oscar and zeus chilling together. Zeus (the brown one) is only 15 weeks old.
Daisy (a muscovy duck) going for her first walk ever. Used an old small dog harness.
Way to stick with it!!!!! CongratulationsPRAISE THE LORD, PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!! We finally got someone to talk to us. I won't go into the details but needless to say, today we got an email, with conditions, that we can have chickens as pets in the Yelm city limits. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Love the Pics! Go with a nicely built,small,cute coop that blends in and I bet you won't have a problemThought I should post an update, my three chicks are doing well and getting larger everyday! It's amazing how quickly the grow! Here are a few pictures from last week
I'm still on the fence about keeping them and need to make up my mind ASAP. I'm just worried about the neighbors. For the most part I don't think anyone will care as long as they don't get too noisy. My backyard is TINY, 40' x 30' and everyone can see right in. I have a coop picked out and need to order it if I'm going to keep them. Otherwise my husband's coworker will take them.
Here's the backyard. I am planning on putting the coop along the fence where that metal stock tank is. So the coop will be roughly 30' from my bedroom window and about the same distance to several of my neighbor's windows. What do you think? Too close?
thank you everyone, what it comes down too, is I guess people were killing and eating chickens in the city limits, and people complained. So they said if we are using them as food sources then NO, since the law is hazy about having "pets" because pets isn't clearly defined, it just says domestic or wild animals, being kept for pleasure, companionship, or utilitarian purposes, we CAN have them. But just like any animal you own, if they are a nuisense they have to goThe problem I see coming though is that our neighbor has been a nightmare since we moved into our house a year ago, literally from day one telling us what to do with our yard, and that we should spray for weeds and pests, even though I had 3 kids at the time and a dog, now 4 kids and 2 dogs. I refused and he got mad. Then he asked us if we wanted a tree he was getting rid of, we are busy people and never answered him, I come out one morning to find this **** thing, planted in my front yard. After telling him to move it and him raining nasty words and insults at us, he finally moved it, and then complained to us that it was ugly where HE decided to replant it. Never fixed the giant hole in our front lawn, then he kept demanding we remove a bush that wasn't even on his property because he wanted curbing put in.......... the bush was no where near it and the hole he made from digging it up is still sitting there, not fixed. and I'm pretty sure he's the one that tried to get us in trouble for having chickens when he didn't even know for sure if we had them. My 8 yr old told their 10 yr old. Whatever. But he's always up in our business, everytime my husband builds something, WHAT ARE YOU BUILDING, What that large tent thing on the side of your house, is that a coop, who's ever heard of a chicken coop tent???? We told him it was our storage shed for the lawn mower etc. which he then asks, is it a work shed, I swear, this guy is a public nusience
Very Nice!!!My little roo 7 wk, cream legbar from GFF. I think he looks pretty good and want to keep him;
depends on how loud he gets, LOL.
Good Luck Matt!
I think the slide out tray will be handy. I've been reading about what type of litter to use and I think with the tray I'll use a combo of sand and sweet pdz (hopefully can find it locally). Not sure what to use on the bottom level though. Maybe straw? I would like something that is easily compostable and can handle getting a little wet. Open to suggestions. Also, I read on this thread about X-cel feed out of Tacoma. I'm almost through my bag of medicated purina start and grow. Does X-cel sell a feed that I should use for my chicks, or should I stick with the purina starter? And, is the X-cel stuff worth a separate drive?
Just ordered this chicken coop and I hope it gets here soon as I'm ready for the chicks to be OUT of my laundry room.
I think the slide out tray will be handy. I've been reading about what type of litter to use and I think with the tray I'll use a combo of sand and sweet pdz (hopefully can find it locally). Not sure what to use on the bottom level though. Maybe straw? I would like something that is easily compostable and can handle getting a little wet. Open to suggestions.
Also, I read on this thread about X-cel feed out of Tacoma. I'm almost through my bag of medicated purina start and grow. Does X-cel sell a feed that I should use for my chicks, or should I stick with the purina starter? And, is the X-cel stuff worth a separate drive?
