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Maryan
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Posted: June 28 2013 at 7:37pm | IP Logged Quote Maryan
We have 20 chickens -- a variety. It's funny - I decorated my house with roosters and chickens looooong before they came.... said "no" to dogs "because I was doing babies and not animals" and all of a sudden 20 chickens are at my house! (and now goats, pigs, and cows...)

But the chickens are mostly easy -- let 'em out and free range. We've hardly lost any. We've lost *baby chicks* to snakes, and some of our chickens have been attacked by the neighbors' dogs but they survived. We've killed a few due to old age.

Although with the cicada brood this spring, our chickens have become wanderers. I *think* it's because there were no trees near the barn, so they went up towards the neighborhood to find luscious bugs by the trees??

So now I have the boys every half an hour or so "herd" them back to the barnyard! I don't know how you retrain a wandering chicken!!

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Posted: July 01 2013 at 4:38pm | IP Logged Quote Michaela
Be careful if you're thinking about keeping chickens. There are ....negatives.

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Posted: July 02 2013 at 2:37am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Michaela wrote:
Be careful if you're thinking about keeping chickens. There are ....negatives.

Hazards of Backyard Chicken Keeping




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MaryM wrote:
Michaela wrote:
Be careful if you're thinking about keeping chickens. There are ....negatives.

Hazards of Backyard Chicken Keeping



Agreed!!!

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Posted: July 02 2013 at 9:18am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Let me just say, Mary, I am completely jealous of your hens! I don't think our city ordinance allows them, but definitely not our HOA. HOA, how I hate thee!

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