Michaelshane
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Anybody have chickens?
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Backyard chickens
- Thread starter Michaelshane
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No but in the LA Area they are more common than you'd expect. In Rosemead the roosters would wake me up.
MisterCairo
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Not yet, but doing the research and preparation to get some!
BR Gordon
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Michael, That's got to be the best looking chicken enclosure that I've seen. Your chickens are living in the lap of luxury.
Michaelshane
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This is before it was finished...
Michaelshane
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I worked on this thing for three weeks.Im not a very good carpenter,I had to backtrack a few times.My wife said if I made it cute we could have chickens.I still need to add cedar shakes to the roof.
RBH
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Very nice !
My wife said ''NO CHICKENS"
My wife said ''NO CHICKENS"
BR Gordon
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How close are your neighbors.
Mark G
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We don't live to far from John in Covina and my wife is the one who wants the chickens!
Atticus Finch
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I had chickens when I was a kid. Our elderly neighbor had a coop and some of the chickens were his and some were mine. It was my job to feed the darn things every morning and collect the eggs. One of our chickens was the meanest white rooster that ever walked. He would try to spur me every time I went into the coop. He was actually a grown up Easter biddy that my folks bought for me one year. I guess he was so darned mean because he had been dyed pink in his youth.
AF
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Did I see something last week in the news about the backyard chicken craze causing a nationwide salmonella outbreak?
Oldsarge
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No, it isn't causing a salmonella outbreak, it's a reaction to it. Here in Lakewood we're allowed five hens per household . . . no roosters! Unfortunately we own a terrorier who would traumatize the poor birds. Plus my wife keeps pointing out that chickens and travel don't mix and she'd rather travel. Oh well, I do my agrarian thing with my vegetables and fruit trees. I'd like bees but honey has too high a glycemic index for me and I'm allergic to the stings so forget that. I guess I'm fated to be a hunter/gardener rather than a suburban homesteader.
Bruce Wayne
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Bruce Wayne
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a friend of the family is getting into having backyard chickens. She has been warned of possible Samonella. She also doesn't believe in vaccinations & drinks unpasturized milk.
I'm curious what happens with these backyard chickens after a couple of years (when their egg production significantly drops off).
Having grown up on a farm where we would get about 100 "day-old chicks" each Spring, I know what happened to our chickens.
But I can't quite picture that solution being acceptable to many back-yard chicken owners (or even legal in some urban areas).
Having grown up on a farm where we would get about 100 "day-old chicks" each Spring, I know what happened to our chickens.
But I can't quite picture that solution being acceptable to many back-yard chicken owners (or even legal in some urban areas).
SHOWSOMECLASS
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Our neighbor has wild plants that flower therefore they are not weeds according to the city code. Also the chickens are a constant presence which are always here.
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I'm so tied down to this place that having a few fowl to tend to wouldn't burden me much more than I already am. But I'm reluctant to have chickens (or even a wild bird feeder) because I don't wish to add to the rodent problems that plague this district. I'm careful not to feed mice and rats, but that doesn't mean I never see them (or evidence of them) around here. Rats pay no mind to that fence between my place and the neighbors'.
A niece lives with her husband and kids on a heavily wooded property on the very outskirts of the settled area of the Puget Sound region. They kept chickens, until she saw a cougar skulking away with one in its mouth. Her concern was less for what the cougar(s) might do to her remaining chickens than to her kids, and she came to the perfectly reasonable conclusion that having the chickens only increased the odds of such a tragic event coming to pass. So that was the end of keeping chickens.
A niece lives with her husband and kids on a heavily wooded property on the very outskirts of the settled area of the Puget Sound region. They kept chickens, until she saw a cougar skulking away with one in its mouth. Her concern was less for what the cougar(s) might do to her remaining chickens than to her kids, and she came to the perfectly reasonable conclusion that having the chickens only increased the odds of such a tragic event coming to pass. So that was the end of keeping chickens.
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Way off topic, but ...
Local ordinance bans open fires, even in a well-constructed firepit. But cooking over an open fire is legal. So, just keep a hot dog and a stick around, and your illicit open fire is now a perfectly legal barbecue pit.
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Barbigirl
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I have a friend in Bremerton, WA who is a master gardner and she had chickens for four years up until she decided she really was ready to travel again. The very broodie hen went to a neighbor as she loves love to egg sit and the other older ones had pretty much stopped producing eggs so they met the fate of what we refer to as "the tube". It keeps their wings from flapping too much and off with their heads! They ate'em.
