We found three wild tiny baby ducks in our yard today. I have a broody hen that I haven't let have any eggs,but she refuses to stop being broody. Can I put baby ducks under her and what is the best way?
Thank you for the sympathy. :)
I want to get a game cam. First order of business, tho, is to get some more secure fencing for the birds.
I would be seriously surprised if anyone showed up after this late date. I looked every single place and walked the field around us. We do live next to a...
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I have not. I've looked everywhere and under everything. Walked the neighbors field also. No sign of anything.
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We have electric netting, but of course not hooked up. My husband also thought that about them making multiple trips. We live about a quarter mile from a woods behind...
I am in search of a puppy from working parents or a adult dog that has been with chickens. I am willing to spend the time and effort to train a puppy to guard chickens, but an adult would be great too.
My husband thinks that coyotes may have hauled off with the nine I can't find to feed pups but would they leave eight behind? Cause I found and buried eight and have one injured with bite marks on her back.
I have such bad luck with chickens. I've now lost around 30 birds to dogs....and these were just starting to lay. Grrrrrrr. Time for a guardian dog.
Thanks for the sympathy wishes. Hard week. Husbands father died, lost our second baby two weeks ago and now this.
I did walk all around my property calling for them but it was dusk and 24 hours later. I plan to walk it again tomorrow in the daylight.
Funny. I thought I was in the predator thread. Hmmm.
I was gone away for a funeral and while I was gone my family was letting my chickens out and shutting them in. When my dad came to shut them in last night, he found 7 dead and scattered around the pasture. I had 27. 7 to 10 were still around and 10 are completely missing....no bodies...nothing...