lancecolonel
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Bangor could have quietly granted a variance months ago……I will never understand why cities choose to stringently follow the letter of law when it’s clear that the spirit of the law is not being flouted.
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Chickens 2023/2024
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lancecolonel
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Anyone else notice their ladies molting? I don’t see it with my flock yet.
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We have one that molted in late summer, and looked gorgeous when her feathers grew back (she's a black Orphington). She molted again in September, which was really strange. Luckily, she is almost fully feathered again before the cold weather.
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yes, they started a month ago. maybe earlier. they are nearing full plumage but I don't expect eggs till early spring... maybe when the light starts to return.
they do look funny though with bare necks and feathers all over the coop. the new feathers are blood red at first and can incite other chickens to attack.
My oldest hen started in August. Most of them are almost done but 2 so far haven't started. I'm hoping they get on with it before it gets really cold. The others of their same breed and age are finished.
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I understand molting in the fall, and going into winter with nice new feathers, but right now I have one broody duck, and a goose that is laying. We have 6 geese and 5 ganders, all it takes is for 1 to start laying and all the boys are fighting again. They generally only lay in the spring, and fight club is a spring time event, but not this year.
xtry51
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If you want your birds to keep laying, add a light to the coup with a timer to extend the day 4 hours into night past dusk and on 2hrs before dawn. It can be a small light. We use a 10W flush mount LED.
Feeding them cracked corn also increases production.
90% of their egg laying is based on light.
Feeding them cracked corn also increases production.
90% of their egg laying is based on light.
Romokid
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Well my son came home from his girlfriends tonight and as he was getting ready for bed heard a noise and thought someone was breaking into his work van. Woke me up as he grabbed his flashlight and it was a huge black bear ripping into my wife’s silkie chicken coop. Got 2 of the 4 hens but the 6 baby chicks made it. Coop is pretty trashed on one end. As we were assessing the damage the big bastards circled around the yard from the front and we spotted him over on the side by our hoop-house/greenhouse. We scared him away again. Thing is he went right by the other coop with the 8 egg laying hens. Tomorrow I will be trying to fix it and probably be getting some electric fencing. We have chicken wire around the outside
of the coops and then about an acre fenced(with the red top 4’ fence)in around them for keeping the dogs in.
of the coops and then about an acre fenced(with the red top 4’ fence)in around them for keeping the dogs in.
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Shevchenko
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wildly unrelated, but I have a massive herd of about 10-15 turkeys that are always in/around my yard, a few weeks ago my cleaners called me in a panic while I was at the office and they go "sir! sir, your chickens got out!" I was so confused until I realized what she was on about haha. in their defense, my neighbors have a pretty big coop set up
lancecolonel
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I have this one on my run door
71montess
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Nice flora and fauna.
mousegunguy
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Caught this guy eyeballin’ my birds this afternoon
xtry51
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mousegunguy
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He was just doin’ his thingYou wanna get shot in the face? Cause dats how you get shot in da face
His face is still in one piece,
I chased him away with a flurry of choice expletives
Gidge
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Kind of like the UN drafting a strongly worded resolution ... it gets ignored
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Bad time of year to be molting.
JayMcB
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Had my coop door not latch and blow open, and a racoon got in. It killed my handicapped (bad leg) Jersey Giant and one of my barred rocks who was a prolific layer.
The idiot rooster sat on it's perch. The hens scream when they're attacked.
The f*cker was bold as brass and didn't even pretend it was alarmed when I approached it with a shovel. One swing changed it's mind and it bolted.
If the shovel didn't work, I was going to give it a 115 grain enema
The idiot rooster sat on it's perch. The hens scream when they're attacked.
The f*cker was bold as brass and didn't even pretend it was alarmed when I approached it with a shovel. One swing changed it's mind and it bolted.
If the shovel didn't work, I was going to give it a 115 grain enema
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Lead off with this one next time.
