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[Chickielady]

Neighbor who used to be best friend, turned crabby on me and called about having chickens.
Ordinance officer did not see any chickens but wrote a ticket anyway.

I have had """friends""" do that sort of thing before. I hate immature spiteful people, acting like children just to hurt you.......good luck !

 

[pettec63]

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He got a ticket because nasty lady next door tattled on him, and the inspector came out and even though he had NO VISIBLE chickens, he had a "pond" (which is not allowed) and RaZ wouldn't let him look inside the garage! So, now he has to go to court. I'm glad I don't live there.



UHHH yea me too!!! Noisy rosie!!! just for that I'd "EGG" her house!! LOL!!!!

 

[pettec63]

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I hope that means better pay too, and more quality time for the two of you!





Yes I thinks, and time for sure!!

 

[RaZ]

I have had """friends""" do that sort of thing before. I hate immature spiteful people, acting like children just to hurt you.......good luck !

I think she hit menopause and reverted to junior high behaviour. At least her husband had the good grace to look embarrassed.

 

[pettec63]

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Told you guys!!! You ARE NOT INNOCENT until proven guilt!!!!!

 

[SweetSilver]

Not sure about castor oil ?
But I have heard that cod liver Oil helps.it has Vit D, pretty sure.
That is for soft shelled eggs or thin eggs though.
Fart eggs are just pullets starting out at lay & lay the weirdest tiny or completely round little marbles.
Someone else told me chickens do not absorb Vit D from sunshine.their skin is all covered.
Even in full summer a chicken is covered with feathers & their skin protected from all sunshine.
They must therefore get all they need from their food.
And I also heard something about phosporous being very important to egg production...guess I will go see which book I read that in.

Oops, cod liver oil. I was referring to the shell-less eggs. I'm pretty sure they do synthesize vit D from sunshine, though for the life of me I need to find out where I was reading that. Time to hit the books. Anyhow, forcing this hen to just eat feed and whatever she could scrounge in the soil seemed to work. Could have been another supplement in the feed that helped.

 

[Zgoatlady]

I don't know about the rest of you but I'm getting a little worried with all this rain. Just a little while ago a older guy knocked on my door asking if I had any timbers laying about that I didn't need. Said his name was Noah.

 

[Zgoatlady]

I'm kinda interested in having one goat on the place. weed control and just another pet. What would you recommend?

Well you always have to have 2 goats they are herd animals. How much land you have? What kind of Fences and shelter? Id also start by saying no Bucks they smell in the fall, but wethers are great and so are does.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Working my way through the posts, server down all day. Responding to this post.

It's been a while, but I finally remembered what I was thinking when this was happening to one of my hens and that was vitamin D deficiency. It would make sense that one hen might be filling up too much on scratch (in my book love=food, therefore more love=more food, so I finally stopped giving them scratch or treats on a regular basisas I always gave them too much.) I never had a problem with this at midsummer. Calcium, oyster shells, egg shells mean naught if they don't have vit D to process it, and it can be difficult for them to get enough of it naturally this time of year.

So, even though I only had one hen doing this, I stopped giving the scratch and the problem disappeared. Can't say for sure this was truly the reason, but nevertheless it worked. We use the pellets.

I've heard castor oil drops can help. ?????

OH you know what I have a new chicken book I'll take a look its for stuff like this.

Im not all here. OKOK I know Im blond too

 

[Chickielady]

Oops, cod liver oil. I was referring to the shell-less eggs. I'm pretty sure they do synthesize vit D from sunshine, though for the life of me I need to find out where I was reading that. Time to hit the books. Anyhow, forcing this hen to just eat feed and whatever she could scrounge in the soil seemed to work. Could have been another supplement in the feed that helped.

Cod Liver oil is recommended for better fertility in breeders as well.