Awesome You are blessed I am having 3 Easter eggers 3 weeks old now. 😃 Sadly when you have a nosy inhuman screwed up neighbor 🙁 And the same president for your community you living in just is horrible. First 3 buff Orbington, I had to give away, or I would have to pay a fine of 20$ each week until I put them away 😢 just started to lay eggs. I have a vinyl white fence and a hen house and a fenced in chicken run 10 ft x10 ft My back yard 70 ft x 50 ft My neighbor is not even in her garden once in a blue moon. We got a New President and and he let me have chicken yeah and we looked up the city rules we aloud to have chickens,no Rooster fenced in. Finally Blessings to all chicken lovers

@@sv160 Some people can never be pleased.. glad you got to keep your chickens!

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I’m about to start out with 12 and I’m excited/nervous

I had to get a city permit and pay a hefty fee for the privilege of having 3 exotic animals (aka chickens/hens).

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Yes, and when normal people look into chickens, they find them banned in many settings, and if you can have them, you're not allowed a rooster due to noise ordinance, when they ones that would complain, have duel exhaust or a Harley. Lol blast boom boom all day, or do target practice in their back yard, but you can't fertilize your eggs Roosters of my neighbors, only cock a doodle doo at sun up and dusk for a minute. I never hear it, I'm sleeping, they also make noise for perceived threat to the brood. Dogs do that too. And barky dogs are barky dogs. I know, we have one, she barks if anyone pulls up. Only way to quiet her is reward her for the warning. Lol the faster you do, the faster she stops. But compared to the noise a rooster might make, the rooster is better, at least you KNOW when they are going to go off.

​@@candygarfield1479 I really don't get the dog thing. They're such a nuisance, and there's nothing pleasant about a barking dog. I have a bunch of hens but I'd love to have roosters.

@@morehn I don't know where your at, but up here they share roosters. Pass them in rotation. If someone complains, by the time it is looked into, rooster is gone. I was just thinking, it's not the noise, it's the ability to grow your brood I think they are trying to limit. I'm starting chickens In a few weeks, I'd like to think I can grab a rooster a couple times a year to replace them when it's time to process the older ones out? Isn't that how you do it? So you don't have to buy new birds every year? My neighbor has some bird last few years, I never heard before, couldn't figure out what is is,. But I think it's one of these birds he talks about in the video. The loud one. Lol. So I won't need one of those, that bird definately makes noise.. my woods wrap around their property, the second I start walking the trails, it goes off the whole time. Today I heard chickens over there, so I think they got some too. But they have had that other bird for at least as long as I've been here.

@@candygarfield1479 that's funny and smart

Why not let people on your farm?

Thanks. Glad it helped. Good luck with your chickens.

Wish I could like this post 100X. This is the most wonderful detailed summary I've heard. Roosters are male. Pullets are female. That's my kind of chicken tutorial 🤣🤣

I got my chicks in the spring last year (2022). I can't tell you how much fun and rewarding they are. The thing that surprised me the most was their assertive personalities. They remind me of the mean girls in Jr High, lol. They're hormonal and downright rotten at times. Also, conniving, smart, and loads of fun when they chase each other around the yard when one gets a tasty worm. Once they got a hold of a dead mouse. The chase-the-chicken game was on. There were 10 of them chasing the lead. When she dropped it, another would swoop in and run with it. You wouldn't believe how athletic they are, turning tight corners, jumping through the grapevine fencing, dodging through the raspberry canes, over the bench. I was trying to keep up to get the mouse before the winner ate it for fear it might have died from poison, lest they poison themselves. I ran so hard, laughing all the way. It was therapeutic. 😂 I did finally get the carcass, and they were disappointed. They soon forgot it and went back to scratching for bugs. There's never a dull moment with chickens. They'll outsmart you and keep you on your toes.

The chickens will never know that you are new to this .P.S. they love table scraps goggle it they can eat Alot.

I ordered from cackle they all came dead. I now use hoover they are cheaper, alot cheaper and they supply tractor supply. 😊

I got 16 Wyandottes from Cackle 22 September of 2022. All arrived alive. One took about two weeks to get up and around, and she is at the bottom of the peck order. They began laying 3 March 2023. Wyandottes here in SW Missouri tend to suffer in the heat. Mine panted all summer. I Kept frozen liters in their waterers. They do fine in the winter, though. Best wishes.

From time to time. We keep a guard goose in with them. That helps a bunch.

They will drown

Use lots of bedding. Wood chips are best. 12-18” of carbon material.

@@SheratonParkFarms Thank you so much!