Posts by CountryKitty

While mice and moles are themselves harmless, the snakes which prey on them are not. A snake might well enter a mouse hole looking for a rodent, but it WON'T pass up a chick as an easy meal. Pack that dirt good!

Heh, my MIL was bragging on the big brown eggs I gave her when a coworker asked her who she could eat those 'manure' eggs?!  Poor woman was utterly convinced that the brown color came for eating manure! As we live in a fairly...

Check out the claws on that baby! That's a very muskie trait. And I'm with Nsampsel on the beak--that looks like the beginnings of the muskovy mask.   I loved muscovies when I had them; big calm birds, great parents. (Elvis...

Yup! My New Hampshire Rooster 'Rusty' was so used to seeing my 90 pound german shepherd Karl trotting through the henyard attached to the front yard, that he completely forgot any instinctive fear of canines. A young coyote came into...