Better safe than sorry, I had a wild pack of family dogs come running through the yard one day
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Well played, sir haha
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I love y’all sharing them growing up for us!!! 
I have all the materials found but the wire netting needed for a run! My folks dismantled a fence so that was the icing on the cake for the needed wood. 
Only hiccup: I’m still waiting for the city to rule yay or nay on April 25th for my ward… not sure when it’ll be confirmed publicly but y’all know I’m starting to build over the weekends as soon as I hear if it’s a yes 
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Guard the fortress! They’re staging a…coo?
Fingers crossed for you. Birds are awesome.
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Do they taste different from store-bought?
Yup…
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Any updates on the 1 of 5 surviving chicks?
Of the 10 blue Eggers I got last month, 1 died and another developed spraddle leg. She was starting to get trampled by the others and not eating much. I isolated her, gave her “muscle therapy “ an hour a day and made sure she ate and drank water. She has since recovered. Unfortunately the other 8 chickens surpassed her in size by 4x. She was getting bullied by them. So I did what any sane chicken owner would do. I got 4 more chicks !!! Lol now she is bigger than them but they should be catching up soon.
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Hehehe. The one surviving chick is healthy and chirping alongside his mom and his big sister (who is a grown chicken who was co-brooding, the spotted one), gets pushed around a bit here and there but he or she is a quite a strong willed brutal chick, just like his mom and sister really. Laughing chickens, at least my small flock, are aggressive creatures, not so much towards each other, but almost every time they get to see chickens of other breeds it ends up with them either bullying one or two, or totally controlling the whole group. The Barbu d’Anvers bantams I have have some roaming space adjacent and that goes well but the larger Cochin bantams and my smallish laying chicken always end up in fights even through the chicken wire if I don’t keep it boarded up till above their eye level.
The chick I’m really unsure of if it’s a hen or a roo, since he or she does a mini-twerk when dropping poop but then again he or she dares attack my shoes when hungry nowadays and altough an aggressive breed and a very active chick, that is kind of rooster behavior. So I’m not sure at all yet what it is. But that’s OK, if it’s a roo I’ll couple him to his 1 year older sister so I can look for a gold partridge roo in the offspring, which is the colour I’d like to breed towards…
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Need to get my ass outside and put the fence around the coop… these 3 are starting to get too big and they’re just arguing all the time. But being my first run with chickens, it’s a learning experience and they’re mostly cute lol except when they arent…
Barb flew up and grabbed me by the lip the other day lol
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Raptors, lol.
Look into those wild ass eyes
Look at that serious expression, the proud strut
That’s why Dino nuggets make sense
This female took on the role of rooster. First one out, last one in. The pecking order.
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They need more room. They will eventually start picking at each other in there
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Happy to report all 8 chicks are happy and healthy.
I was just sitting there and they decided they wanted to sit all over me haha. Was kinda cool
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I hatched this bird last year. He’s from our stock. I was able to give him away to someone that wanted a rooster. I called him Izzy. Cool bird. I gave him away on a local FB chicken group and decided to blur the weed plant in the background, lolz
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Yep. My city sucks; second meeting = no 
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Looks like all that hoarded curbside wood is just gonna become a boat shed now for our canoe and dinghy.
I’ll paint chickens on it with a 
saying: "I was supposed to be a chicken coop. 
T.Dot overlords."
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That’s hysterical.
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@Boozer there’s a lot of small aircraft that fly over our property so I’m thinking if I put it on the roof it’ll be extra hilarious!
Also for anyone on Google maps.
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