Hi Amy, Fancy meeting you here on this list! The short answer is 20 feet from doors an windows, and not more than four birds. The long, detailed answer direct...
“Experience is a dear school, but a fool will learn in no other.” - Benjamin Franklin _________________________________________________________________ ...
Has any of you experienced your chicken eating the eggs? One of my hen had developed the taste for eggs though she doesn't do it regularly. Now, one of the...
Hi Tara, Fortunately my hens haven't yet discovered how good their eggs taste, but I looked up the problem in the book, "Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens,"...
Thanks for the advice! Here are couple of pictures - Silkies and eggs (the small ones are from the Silkies). Tara “Experience is a dear school, but a fool...
Anyone interested in keeping quails? Will, a quail keeper I know, is giving away his quails and cages - they are pretty large and need to be transported by a...
Fowl fans, See item #2 about chicks needing a home. Jennifer From: permaculture-sf@yahoogroups.com [mailto:permaculture-sf@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Sunday, May...
Here's an article in today's NY Times about free-range city chickens: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/nyregion/16chickens.html? _r=1&oref=slogin. Are there...
Thanks Jennifer. i have a bit to share. My indian runner ducks have been on a laying strike for almost two months. :) Actually, they've been molting, which...
Great to hear from other fowlers! My 'flock' had been eventful this year... First, my neighbor called the Health Dept, after us having the chickens for more...
Kevin, Carol Lloyd, the reporter for that Chron article, might be able to put you in touch with the Colin. Last winter 3 of my hens molted and stopped laying...
I give the egg shells back to the hens too. I also give them shrimp shells, and fish scale and skin for treat - they love it! -- In 1941, Edward Dowling,...
Tara, I'm so sorry about your birds. I'd been wondering how my chickens might do if we put in a little pond. Keep us posted on your duck plans. When the health...
Hi mother/father hens, I have 20 White Leghorn and Rhode Island Red chicks (week and a half old). They are straight runs (not sexed) and healthy. Let me know...
So I finally established a relationship with the fine brewers at the local pub (Magnolia at Haight and Stanyan) where I can pick up spent beer mash (grain) for...
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/SanMateoChickens/?yguid=194946071 We are backyard poultry enthusiasts living in San Mateo county, California and environs....
There's one pet store out in the Sunset (On Taraval) that irregularly has very small bags of pellets and scratch...I also know about the biofuel place in...
You can place a special order through Rainbow Grocery for Chicken feed; they have a catalogue with quite a few selections - ask at the pet food section... I...
Hello, Does the rule to locate the coop 20 feet away from an inhabited property include your own? Does anyone know how strictly these rules are enforced...
It does include your own dwelling. I think it's 20ft away from any opening - window or doors. This of course precludes the possibility of having the coop...
I have chickens housed "about" 15-20 feet away from my neighbor's windows—I never actually jumped the fence to measure accurately). The neighbors have never...
My understanding is it also applies to your own dwelling. That said, putting the henhouse under a deck or in a garage doesn't seem like a bad idea, provided...
I have a patchy/weedy lawn in my garden that four chickens free-range on regularly. The patchiness is more from dog urine than hungry chickens, as we never had...
Hi Robin and friends, I have grown buckwheat and flax successfully in the inner Richmond. They both flower (the flax is a pretty blue) and produce seed heads ...
Something I've been thinking of for some time - helping folks get set up with chickens, especially families where money is tight - anyone interested in working...
Sound like a wonderful project, I'm in! -- "Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that...
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