Paint the chicken wire with rainbow colors.
If they attack it for visual you claim they're anti gay for making you remove the fence painted as tribute to gay pride.
They won't want any part of that.
Backyard Chickens?
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If they attack it for visual you claim they're anti gay for making you remove the fence painted as tribute to gay pride.
They won't want any part of that.
Who mine? Shes an easter egger... And a real bitch haha!
They still have a few of those left at our fleet store and they're starting to get big so they're buy one get one free. So tempting...
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Paint the chicken wire with rainbow colors.
If they attack it for visual you claim they're anti gay for making you remove the fence painted as tribute to gay pride.
They won't want any part of that.
They'd probably use that as more of a reason to make me take it down
small rural town, they can be pretty .. uh ... Unaccepting of alternate lifestyles. No joke, the entire time I was in school here, we only had one black student in the entire School system. He was adopted by a local white family. It's not a whole lot different now, but there's atleast more than one lol
Do it!!!! Get some good hardware cloth and bury it underground to full enclose the coop. You should be able to keep fox out!
Ahh!They'd probably use that as more of a reason to make me take it down
Then go the other way.
Paint it Red White and Blue....
Except we don't have a coop (unless I put them in the spare horse stall) and we have determined weasels too. I was thinking the dog fence would be a good place to put a coop so they could come out during the day to roam but I don't think any of it is in the works this year. But they still did have those chicks at bogo when I was there today.
So a sad update here. Ill try to make a ling story short, but be patient (or at least skip to the end lol) I do have a question here!
Our easter egger went broody. Of course not with her own eggs, she was sitting on all brown (everyone EXCEPT her lays brown) and the first time, I waited 28 days before taking the eggs, none of them hatched. She kept sitting, so I let her have another round. This time, at 19 days, 4 eggs hatched! We could only find 3 chicks though... What happened to the 4th!? We found 1 body and 2 chicks. Later that day, another body and only 1 chick. By morning the last chick was MIA. Anyone with any ideas what could have happened to the 2 bodies we can't find!? Anyway, then the next day the coop got left open (I still SWEAR I closed and latched it, but he didn't believe me raccoons can work those little latches, and I was on pain meds, so who knows. Not the first time this has happened lol. Anyway, got the girls back in the coop but our roo was gone. Followed a minimal feather trail (but enough to know it was him, and that the result probably wasnt good) and ended up finding him a good 100+ yards away in the neighbors yard. With no head. His body was fully intact no visible injuries anywhere other than not having a head! What could have happened!? What would take his head like that!? Were now looking at introducing a new silkie young rooster to the flock. Everyone (including the neighbors!) miss hearing him crow.
Our easter egger went broody. Of course not with her own eggs, she was sitting on all brown (everyone EXCEPT her lays brown) and the first time, I waited 28 days before taking the eggs, none of them hatched. She kept sitting, so I let her have another round. This time, at 19 days, 4 eggs hatched! We could only find 3 chicks though... What happened to the 4th!? We found 1 body and 2 chicks. Later that day, another body and only 1 chick. By morning the last chick was MIA. Anyone with any ideas what could have happened to the 2 bodies we can't find!? Anyway, then the next day the coop got left open (I still SWEAR I closed and latched it, but he didn't believe me raccoons can work those little latches, and I was on pain meds, so who knows. Not the first time this has happened lol. Anyway, got the girls back in the coop but our roo was gone. Followed a minimal feather trail (but enough to know it was him, and that the result probably wasnt good) and ended up finding him a good 100+ yards away in the neighbors yard. With no head. His body was fully intact no visible injuries anywhere other than not having a head! What could have happened!? What would take his head like that!? Were now looking at introducing a new silkie young rooster to the flock. Everyone (including the neighbors!) miss hearing him crow.
Oh, and we have now put padlocks on the doors too... And extra step to ensure were locking up correctly and to ensure nothing can get in either.
I will never forget when the people that used to live next door here had chickens and we woke up to a couple of beheaded ones on our driveway!
I thought that was the weirdest thing! Why just the head? 
Then, out in the back of our property we found a pile of feathers! I finally asked my neighbor if she was missing chickens and she told me that something was taking them and they weren't sure what! They thought an Owl might be sitting in a tree and picking them off. I don't think they had them in an enclosure with a top on it. Then, the other day, my friend down the road a piece with chickens said a raccoon was killing their chickens! They were putting out live traps and had gotten 3 of them and drove them 5 miles away to release. But they lost 4 chickens.
I think by that time I'd be shooting the raccoons! 
Now my horse friend and neighbor 3 houses down wants to get chickens now. She has an aging Rotti and said when he passes on, she's getting them! (he wouldn't be good with them) I'm happy because I'll never have them here and I can still reap the benefits!
lol!
They just need an asshole rooster. Problem solved.
My rooster is such a sweetheart. My hens are more of an asshole than he is... Lol maybe I shouldn't have gotten silkie roosters? 
My rooster is such a sweetheart. My hens are more of an asshole than he is... Lol maybe I shouldn't have gotten silkie roosters?
Every flock needs an asshole. Guess it really doesn't matter what sex.
LOL, it's funny that I was down at eye level with a friends rooster and he said "ohhh be careful because he's an asshole rooster". It wasn't too long after that when it started attacking me.
It wasn't too long after that when it started attacking me.
I can't believe some of the critters those roosters in the video were willing to take on. No fear, kinda reminds me of Rumor.
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Chickens scare the heck out of me....ONE word!!! SALMONELLA.... ROFLMBO, I wash my eggs before I use them and then my hands...I lost 30 lbs. after a bout with Salmonella...Chickens gets the same treatment and it's always cooked with a thermometer.
PS...don't walk in their poop and walk into the house....BAD!
PS...don't walk in their poop and walk into the house....BAD!
I usually wash my eggs right before use and leave them in a bowl in the kitchen until we use them. Thankfully, and *knock on wood* weve never had an issue. We do however all wash out hands well after gathering eggs, handling the chickens, or cleaning the coop!
Chickens scare the heck out of me....ONE word!!! SALMONELLA.... ROFLMBO, I wash my eggs before I use them and then my hands...I lost 30 lbs. after a bout with Salmonella...Chickens gets the same treatment and it's always cooked with a thermometer.
PS...don't walk in their poop and walk into the house....BAD!
Salmonella is in lots of places, not just chickens. Even in the feces of humans, dogs and cats.
The risk from small flocks, aka backyard chickens is really low. The big risk is from commercial farms. Too many hens are kept together in small cages, no one monitoring individual hens for signs of illness. A commercial hen is given no more space than about the size of a piece of notebook paper, can't even stretch out their wings. The hens pick up salmonella from rat and mouse droppings in their feed.
Backyard chickens are given more more space per hen, they as well as their surroundings are kept clean and well cared for and watched for signs of illness so the risk of any disease is minimal.
People with good hygiene practices usually pick up salmonella from improperly cooked foods, not directly from hens.
I am lucky enough to live in a state with tons of farms where I can buy chicken to eat that have been raised and cared for properly. We had a fresh turkey from a local farmer for Thanksgiving. Very little risk of disease. My hens are layers, not really good eating. My son lives on a farm where we raise our own pork and beef. We have a huge garden where we raise most of our vegetables. We want something we don't grow? We buy and swap from other local farmers.
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