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Posted: 1/4/2023 5:21:01 PM EST

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With Denver deciding that cage free eggs will be mandated in Colorado, and all else made illegal, I expect those prices to keep rising.

What a load of marketing shit.

If I put chickens in my garden, they'll eat the garden won't they?

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Yes, but ducks probably won’t. Ducks are more reliable layers through the winter too. Only problem is, they are incredibly messy and stinky.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:22:42 PM EST

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And loud.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:25:39 PM EST

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Mine leave most things alone, but ripe tomatoes and melons they will attack

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Internet says to build cages around the garden. Now why didn't I think of that?

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:26:52 PM EST

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And loud.

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I'm already thinking of violating the rules with hens. Roosters are banned outright due to noise. Fuck a duck.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:29:09 PM EST

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I'm hoping I can accidentally get some broody hens to start raising our own chicks this spring

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:29:29 PM EST

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I mean, the little fuckers are feral in Hawaii...

... how hard can this be?

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:30:37 PM EST

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I'm probably gonna talk to the neighbors and see if anyone else wants to violate the rules and raise chickens with me.

If everyone is in on it, no one will tell on me.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:31:09 PM EST

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Let's hope you don't have shitty neighbors

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:32:44 PM EST

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I mean, the little fuckers are feral in Hawaii...

... how hard can this be?

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If they're like plants, it's probably impossible.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:33:25 PM EST

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Let's hope you don't have shitty neighbors

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Most of them are on the level and don't give a shit. Most of them.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:34:11 PM EST

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Can I raise chickens in the basement? Or the garage?

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:34:28 PM EST

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I mean, $20 for a dozen eggs might bring them around.

Let's hope they aren't some weird vegan shit cult member

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:35:32 PM EST

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I'm sure you could.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:36:25 PM EST

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I'm sure you could.

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They wouldn't be cage free.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:38:17 PM EST

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I'm already thinking of violating the rules with hens. Roosters are banned outright due to noise. Fuck a duck.

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And loud.

I'm already thinking of violating the rules with hens. Roosters are banned outright due to noise. Fuck a duck.

Hens it is! My Orpington hens are really quiet, but they’re also broody heifers. Probably sex links are your best bet if they’re just for eggs.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:40:06 PM EST

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Hens it is! My Orpington hens are really quiet, but they’re also broody heifers. Probably sex links are your best bet if they’re just for eggs.

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I'm gonna need you to expound on this.

Broody heifers? Sex links?

I kinda feel like you turned into HK all of the sudden.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:41:38 PM EST

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I got the sex links.... Figured that out.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:42:07 PM EST

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You don't really want broody hens unless you're trying to hatch your own chicks

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:42:33 PM EST

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They need to be out eating bugs and shit, not laying on the nest

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:45:09 PM EST

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I'm hoping I can accidentally get some broody hens to start raising our own chicks this spring

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None of mine go broody long enough to actually hatch eggs, just long enough to get them to the point where you don’t want to eat them, so I’m getting some silkies this spring.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:45:45 PM EST

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Gotcha. So a broody heifer is a big fat lazy bitch that doesn't pull her own weight around the garden. She's just good for making babies.

A lot of people are broody heifers.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:46:28 PM EST

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Rhode Island Reds are reliable layers, but also very broody with eggs. Ameracaunas lay the pastel colored eggs, not so broody. They're normally the first ones out of the coop in the morning.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:46:29 PM EST

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And if they're broody, you're not getting edible eggs - yes?

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:47:24 PM EST

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Rhode Island Reds are reliable layers, but also very broody with eggs. Ameracaunas lay the pastel colored eggs, not so broody. They're normally the first ones out of the coop in the morning.

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I need ones that make lots of eggs and not a lot of noise. Or any noise.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:49:03 PM EST

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And if they're broody, you're not getting edible eggs - yes?

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You might get bloodied if they really don't want you taking the eggs

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:50:12 PM EST

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You might get bloodied if they really don't want you taking the eggs

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I'll distract them with my nunchuck skills.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:50:16 PM EST

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One little whore of a buff orpington got me just right in the webbing between fingers, twice on the same collection attempt

Only reason I didn't wring her little neck is she was also a daily layer.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:50:47 PM EST

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I think if you pick them up every morning, it's fine.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:51:46 PM EST

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What do you when it's 20 below outside? Heaters?

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:52:08 PM EST

[#30]

They are the heaters

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:53:10 PM EST

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They have nice little chicken coops to keep them out of the weather and half the time the little dumb asses jump up on the coop roof and weather out the storm on top

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:53:38 PM EST

[#32]

Do nothing. Got it.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:54:18 PM EST

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They have nice little chicken coops to keep them out of the weather and half the time the little dumb asses jump up on the coop roof and weather out the storm on top

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I knew they had a coop. I'm not that ignorant.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:55:23 PM EST

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I wasn't implying you were Lubing out, but telling you how simple the chicken mind can be

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:57:21 PM EST

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Sometimes you find them doing this:

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Posted: 1/4/2023 5:57:44 PM EST

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What do you when it's 20 below outside? Heaters?

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Build the coop right so you've got ventilation in the summer you can close in the winter.

Add more pine bedding in the winter. I think we have it 4" deep in the winter, covers some of the lower roosting bars but meh.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:57:49 PM EST

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Sometimes you find them doing this:

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That looks pretty smart.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:58:23 PM EST

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They are the heaters

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Effectively this. Just give them enough extra insulation, try and keep wind to a minimum, they'll be fine.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:59:48 PM EST

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When looking at my Siberian tiger skull, I noticed the brain case is about the size of a baseball. It's a huge skull from a 600 pound cat with a baseball sized brain. Cats, generally, are pretty smart too.

I look at every creature differently now.

Posted: 1/4/2023 5:59:49 PM EST

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Sometimes you find them doing this:

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Dumb fucking bird

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:00:32 PM EST

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They have nice little chicken coops to keep them out of the weather and half the time the little dumb asses jump up on the coop roof and weather out the storm on top

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Also this.

Also the ameracaunas are my worst offenders on this

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:02:48 PM EST

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This is great.

Things I need to worry about when raising chickens:

1. Dumb and/or shitty neighbors
2. Dumb chickens
3. Hawks eating dumb chickens
4. Getting bit by broody heifers

Things I don't need to worry about:

1. Keeping them warm.

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:05:16 PM EST

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Accurate.

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:08:41 PM EST

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Sounds about right

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:08:50 PM EST

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This is great.

Things I need to worry about when raising chickens:

1. Dumb and/or shitty neighbors
2. Dumb chickens
3. Hawks eating dumb chickens
4. Getting bit by broody heifers

Things I don't need to worry about:

1. Keeping them warm.

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2. Not having enough sauce for nuggies

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:09:22 PM EST

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2. Not having enough sauce for nuggies

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I don't have to worry about that? That's great news!

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:10:05 PM EST

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A 140k lb roll was delivered today

That’s 50k more than the previous place could handle

Posted: 1/4/2023 6:10:06 PM EST

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Also, depending on Colorado's definition of free range and cage free, you could do what I've done and have a semi-mobile setup made of a few dog runs with the coop inside on wheels. Cover the enclosure with bird netting, and suddenly hawks aren't as much of a problem.