http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/ TheCityChicken Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:16:35 GMT smacfamily@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2691 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2691 HEEHEE yep, that's right, they will charge the fence and rip you to pieces.... sheri in kc All I've got to say is that potential intruders better beware of my Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:13:09 GMT Kelly Wellington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2690 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2690 I was interviewed by Vancouver, BC, planning students, for use up there.... http://planningpool.com/2010/02/chickens/chicken-week/ - Kelly, inner SE PDX Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:59:28 GMT Kelly Wellington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2689 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2689 I'd point out that while dogs can, and do, bark all night long, hens roost and go quiet during the hours of darkness. All I've got to say is that potential Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:42:01 GMT smacfamily@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2688 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2688 It seems odd to me that cities don't want to appear rural, but will sit there with hands out and mouths open saying "feed me" to the farmers....how Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:40:36 GMT smacfamily@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2687 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2687 I hope you all send a note of support to the representatives that proposed the bill. Even if we aren't in Georgia, we need to show support. It may help us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:19:33 GMT Kelly Wellington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2686 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2686 We did. Regulation usually grows out of a desire to change something that is undesired. I expect that, at one time, keeping chickens was considered a "dirty, Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:06:49 GMT Linda Schneider http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2685 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2685 I made a video about the social impact the chickens had in my neighborhood, Besides food and greening, I wanted peopke to see thar emotional needs which were Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:46:12 GMT Roy Nilson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2684 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2684 Who gave these people the right to regulate whether a person can have a couple of chickens in the back yard? Maybe that's the real question. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:46:09 GMT Michelle Jacobson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2683 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2683 Thank you! I just sent a note out to there group.I can use all the help I can get! Michelle Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:36:46 GMT Kelly Wellington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2682 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2682 I hope the folks in Hillsboro have checked in with the folks who just prevailed in Gresham. Check in at PDXBackyardChix on Yahoo!groups if you are looking for Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:58:41 GMT Renee Wrede http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2681 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2681 Are you giving her free choice of oyster shell for calcium? Adding Vitamin D enriched dairy products (yogurt?) may help her assimilate the calcium as well as a Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:24:00 GMT Julie McGregor http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2680 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2680 Hi All,   My 18 month old Leghorn laid an egg Saturday! The first one since late July. The egg is very thin-shelled and oblong. The last egg she laid was very Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:12:21 GMT Michelle Jacobson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2679 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2679 I would like to add my thanks too! I hope it will help at the meetings going on this week in Hillsboro, Or Keep your fingers crossed for me! I am so new to all Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:10:12 GMT Kelly Wellington http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2678 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2678 My alpha hen, a Rhode Island Red named Emma, started molting in November and was done by the end of January. She went from being a proud leader to a Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:31:30 GMT keva house http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2677 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/thecitychicken/message/2677 My BO (the one named Queen) is moulting on her belly and butt, if it's any consolation. I too hope it's just a normal thing. If you chickens are social and