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Chicken Coops for Sale in Selma, North Carolina

Chicken Coops for Sale in Selma, North Carolina

When An Old House Whispers...

Now that I have your attention, last night I watched the 2008 Angelina Jolie movie for the second time. A year or so ago when I saw it for the first time I was completely blown away. If you have not seen it, it is truly a riveting film, but I warn you, this is by no means a "family" show. The violence and the subject matter is disturbing in the extreme, especially when you know that the story actually happened. Here's a link to the Wikipedia article on the  .
According to the film, there was a Vancouver connection to the movie and later in the night, the evening I first saw the movie, I spent several hours doing online searches on the story and found that there is a house in Cedar Cottage, or was, that had a connection to the murderous Northcott family that was the subject of the film.
Gordon Stewart Northcott's mug shot
Many of you have seen the movie, and you can all click on the link above to read details of the murders. I won't go into too much detail here except to say that the murders involved young boys and took place in the late 1920s on an isolated farm in Wineville, now Mira Loma, California over the hills to the east of Los Angeles. The other piece is that the perpetrators were Canadians. 
Sanford Wesley Clark
Those of you who have seen the movie, know that it deals only with Gordon Stewart Northcott (seen above) and his young nephew Sanford Wesley Clark (yes, the Northcott's were Methodists), but if you read the Wikipedia article, you will learn as I did that Gordon's mother Sarah Louise Northcott was also involved in the murders. 
According to the Wikipedia article, Gordon Stewart Northcott was born in Saskatchewan in 1906 but had been raised in BC. Curious, I did an online search of his name in the 1911 Canada census and lo and behold, I found them living in the Cedar Cottage neighbourhood of Vancouver.
1911 Canada Census Page showing the Northcott's in Cedar Cottage
The writing may be a little difficult to see, but Gordon is listed on line 44 near the bottom, under his father C. G. (Cyrus George) Northcott on line 42 and his mother, Sarah "Louisa"  Northcott on line 43. Here is a cropped section of the page.  The data indicates that Gordon's parents were both born in Ontario. You can see that Gordon's actual birth date was in November of 1907. As mentioned above, the Northcotts were Methodist. It would also seem that in 1911, at least, that Gordon's father Cyrus worked as a carpenter in the house building trade and had made $1000 doing that in the year prior to the census.
Cyrus G. Northcott
Sarah Louisa Northcott
I was quite frustrated with the census record. In most cases, the 1911 census actually includes the street address of the various households. This page did not include those details, including only that the Northcotts lived in the Cedar Cottage neighbourhood in South Vancouver. I checked the 1911 City Directory to see if I could find them and this is what I found. Of course, I was thrilled to find the Northcotts in the directory. The directory gave some more information on their location, the west side of Marshall Street, so I looked up Marshall street on Google Maps and was surprised to find that I knew it...  My daughter and her Mom had lived very close to Marshall Street on East 19th for a number of years. It was just south of Trout Lake. But where was Lakeview Drive? Did they mean Lakewood? That didn't make sense. I went to the old city directories again to see if the Northcotts were listed in the 1912 directory but they were not. I went back to the 1911 directory and searched through the street section and found that there were only five households mentioned on the street that year: those of Samuel Smith, George Adams, Robert Borrinow (most likely Boronow), Cyrus G. Northcott, and Ernest Marshall. Of these, Samuel Smith and George Adams lived on the part of Marshall close to the BC Electric Railway. Boronow's street address was listed as Bismarck (Kitchener) and Marshall's was listed as  Epworth Post Office.
Plate 92 of Volume 2  of 1912 Goad's Atlas of Vancouver
No clear house address seems possible from the directory records... but we do know that the Northcott house was on the west side of Marshall near Lake View Drive. So I went to look for a map of the area close to the time of the census and what we have is the 1912 Goad's Atlas of Vancouver. I looked at the map above and found that at the time of the map's drawing there were about thirteen houses along Marshall which had been renamed Haywood Terrace. but here is the interesting thing... Two actually... The arc of the BC Electric Railway can be seen  to the south of Marshall. IWhat we now know as East 19th was originally called Lakeview Drive.  If the Northcott residence was on the west side of Marshall near Lakeview Drive it could only have been one of two houses: either 3521 or 3545 Marshall. If you go on Google Maps and do a search for both houses you can see that 3545 Marshall does not look like a house that was built prior to 1911, but 3521 does.
3521 Marshall Street
Is this the house where the Northcott family lived at the time of the 1911 census? 
Gordon Stewart Northcott at his trial.
Various accounts of the Gordon Northcott trial seem to indicate that he was severely abused by his parents. In 1911, Gordon was only four years old. Did the nightmare start here, or elsewhere? Who knows...
Gordon Northcott with police at the Northcott farm in Wineville.
For those of you who want to dig further, here is a link that has links to quite a few other articles on the subject: The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders - .  In the meantime, I will do some more snooping at the City Archives. Perhaps a water service or building permit application search will turn up some connection to Cyrus Northcott and one of the addresses on Marshall. If I find something, I will keep you posted.  

Chicken coops for sale in Selma North Carolina can be found in agricultural newspapers and community newspapers. The coops are designed for housing for chickens in a safe and secure environment. They generally consist of a small building or large box that is then sectioned off to smaller boxes where the chickens go to roost (or sleep). Chicken coops are a must for raising chickens. Selma North Carolina chicken coops are commonly constructed from wood products. They are not very stable buildings and provide only minimal protection from the elements. Now chicken houses used for large production facilities are a entirely different structure, they are huge and can hold up to 10000 chickens. The coops are typically used for backyard operations, or small family farms. They vary in size depending on the number of residents they house. chicken-coops-in-Selma-NCFinding chicken coops for sale in Selma North Carolina is probably not one of the easiest of items to find. There are manufacturers of chicken houses and coops that sell them out right and Selma North Carolina farm supply stores that they can also be purchased through, but generally speaking it will take some effort to find a chicken coop for sale in Selma North Carolina, especially if your location is not a typically rural location. In rural locations that are much more abundant and easily had. Chicken Coops for sale in Selma NC

Chicken Coop Construction in Selma, North Carolina

A good place to start any search is the internet. Simply plugging in the phrase "chicken coops for sale in Selma North Carolina" into any one of the numerous search engines and a wealth of information will pop up. This information will provide links to other websites that will be informative and will provide the right direction for finding Selma North Carolina chicken coops. What to look for when buying a chicken coop in Selma, North Carolina With the substantial increase in chicken maintaining there has been a just as large surge in the range of fowl paraphernalia for sale. Fowl housing is an instance in point. It's likewise a traditional instance of the good old bandwagon being jumped on as different prospective poultry housing experts peddle a selection of lodging asserting to be the ideal solution to your chicken real estate needs. Typically the price looks appealing, your house looks appealing, hell even the clean-cut family standing there feeding the chickens look attractive. Undoubtedly they know a professional chicken house when they see one? There are many affordable and also nasty coops flooding the market. I understand this as I've tested a number of them in the area, as well as seen a ewe run directly through one when the feed container appeared. The result was just a pricey pile of fire wood and also a tiny group of bemused as well as now homeless bantams. Chickens for sale in Selma NC

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Generally these standardized models are built of rapid grown up hardwood - come the first drop of rainfall they swell, leaving you either fortifying a doorway that won't shut, or ripping the door furnishings off in a vain effort to launch the squawking citizens. The initial warm and comfortable day implies the hardwood dries out as well as fractures, the really felt roof bubbles and boils, and also come nightfall the chickens choose not to enter. This is not due to their dissatisfaction at the decrease of their once appealing residential property yet considering that the hovel is now a place for, as well as most likely crawling with, the poultry caretaker's nemesis, red mite. Add that it claimed on the blurb that it would certainly fit four huge chickens when that stocking density was based upon the Circle Line at 5pm on a Friday, and exactly what are you entrusted? A couple of hinges as well as some kindling. A suitable coop for thee to four birds need to cost you in the region of ₤ 300 though this can depend upon whether you elect for a complimentary standing house or one with a run connected. Presuming you are varying your birds in a huge room and the pop hole door allows enough for the type you maintain, then the main requirements of real estate come down to 3 points which will define the variety of birds your home will hold; perches, nest boxes and ventilation. Many breeds of chicken will perch when they go to roost at night, this perch needs to preferably be 5-8cm broad with smoothed off sides so the foot sits comfortably on it. The perch needs to be above the nest box entry as chickens will certainly additionally naturally search for the acme to perch. A perch below that will certainly have the birds roosting in the nest box overnight (which is incidentally when they create one of the most poo) resulting in stained eggs the list below day. They should not nevertheless be so high off the floor of the house that leg injuries could possibly take place when the bird comes down in the early morning. Chickens require regarding 20cm of perch each (in tiny types this is undoubtedly less), plus if greater than one perch is set up in your home they must be more than 30cm apart. They will hunker up with their next-door neighbors however are not that keen on roosting with a beak in the bloomers of the bird ahead. Preferably your home must have a least one nest box for every three birds as well as these need to be off the ground and in the darkest location of the house. The house needs to have appropriate ventilation: without it then condensation will certainly build up every night, also in the coldest of climate. Realize, ventilation works with the principle of warm air leaving through a high gap attracting cooler air in from a lower space - it's not a collection of holes on other walls of the house and also at the very same level, this is what's called a draught. If you have a house with a run affixed after that the points above are still real, however you should also consider the run size. The EU optimum lawful equipping thickness for a complimentary variety bird is (as well as let's encounter it, one of the inspirations for maintaining some chickens in your home is perhaps boosted or better well-being) 2,500 birds each hectare, that's optimal one bird each 4m settled. Take a close check out a few of the deal houses - it could well be the house has the best perches, appropriate air flow as well as adequate nest boxes for a sensible number of birds, however will each of the chickens have anything greater than an A4 sized item of ground to spend the day on? Therefore as the claiming goes, "you get exactly what you spend for". You could assume you've got hold of a deal, but you and your group can rue the day you did. Acquisition the best house as well as it will certainly last for a couple of years, if not longer given the appropriate therapy. Ultimately your chicken and your fowl keeping encounter will certainly be considerably the much better for it.
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