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Dik Hz posted:The only bird of prey big enough to take down a full size chicken is a great horned owl. Maybe a full grown peregrine could get one, but I doubt it. Bantams are another story. I'd be much more concerned about alley cats than birds of prey for bantams, though. My coworker lives in S Seattle area and swears that he's had hawks take 3 of his full grown chickens. He said he had them out in the afternoon for a bit of run around time, he would turn around and tend to his garden and then here a squak and then just a few feathers left over. Raccoons are his biggest problem though.
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Let Them Eat Cake posted:How to pluck a chicken? Put up a kill cone, a scalding pot (something to hold boiling water), and make one of these: I'm in North Seattle too. Part of the reason I haven't gotten chickens is I would need a tight loving coop because people around my neighborhood must feed the raccoons. They are bold as poo poo and will walk right up to me during the day when i'm gardening. 20 blocks north of northgate mall.
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Amethyste posted:Oh yes I live in Seattle and while my backyard is sloped and it's pretty much impossible to put a coop back there, my neighbors have a flat yard. I was driving home last week and saw they got a coop kit and have at least 3 chickens in there! I squee'd and said in a few weeks ill go by and let them know that ill buy any extra eggs off them.
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Wonderful no?
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Alterian posted:3 might not be enough for extra eggs to sell. You should just try to find a way to get your own. Even so, I figured it would be a less creepy way of letting them know I support them in their endeavors and they don't have to worry about complaints from us.
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GenericOverusedName posted:Depends on how well you like your neighbors, but maybe you could convince them to share your yards and chickenwork and chickens? Maybe. I've never really met them. They've only been there for a few months and since we don't have yard work (natural northwest yard with ferns and trees yo) we don't meet the neighbors much. Oh and I was staring through their fence and they have FOUR chickens! 3 buff and 1 black.
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I love this thread - I do not have chickens of my own but I enjoy reading about them and many of my neighbors have them. I was on a walk today down a street I had not been down recently and noticed 2 big chickens pecking in someones back yard and I exclaimed to my husband "CHICK ANS CHICK CHICK CHIKS!!!" and the came to my side of the fence to come look at me lol I am excited for another year of Chickcam 
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