Recent content by Stajemahal

Hi! So, I’ve been here before and everyone was so helpful I’m just attempting to wing it! Yes, pun intended. But not really. Okay, so a friend bought some of those a d o r a b l e ducklings she saw at the farm and home store. Don’t get me started. Anyway, she has had no problems except SuzieQ...

AC???

They've been moved to a new coop entirely. Honestly, it's a shed but the survivors are so freaked out, I wasn't about to put them back in the horror house.

I went out with a flashlight and followed some feathers. These lead me to my burn barrels and fresh tracks. Coyote tracks with smaller coyote tracks. Apparently they are training their pups.

& I believe someone above said they had solar powered ones?

I'm definitely out for blood.

We have buried railroad ties around the outside run to deter animals from digging in. A metal frame from an old trampoline rounds out one area. Aviary netting, of course. As I said, hardware cloth was skimped on. It's hard for a man to listen to a woman when he is building it.

I'm torn between giving up and selling the survivors or starting all over again. Which, in reality, I don't have the money for so we'll see what happens.

Well these coyotes around here have been running in packs.... If I'm wrong, it wouldn't be the first time. I'm just assuming because I've never seen a rural dog in my area. There are two down the street but they have been raised around poultry & other farm animals.

Over-night. We deal with Bobcats, Foxes, Coyotes, Coons, Skunks, Weasels ..... The occasional Mtn. Lion.

The predator was a coyote from my experience. When we first moved to our farm, we had some coon attacks that we quickly dealt with. Again, with traps. Then a fox decided to come snooping around, found a hole and off went Bob & Marley, my Khakis. The fox did take it back to wherever it had come...

My day wasn't started off on the right nor the left foot, more like on my knees. I woke to finding my coop slaughtered. Just completely slaughtered. A handful of my birds were still alive, around 5 or 6, I'd say. It was a massacre. The gore didn't bother me. The overwhelming feeling that I had...

What’s ACV?

Thank you for correcting my ignorance. I’d rather be corrected than to speak as if I have no knowledge of them in the future. Varieties, not breeds. Noted. Well I have (maybe) week old poults and the chicks out number them easily. I did do a time out session after witnessing the poult do this...

Has anyone had issues with a specific breed of turkey poults being... rude? Censoring myself here, obviously. For instance, my blue slate poult keeps grabbing my chicks feet and dragging them. I’m not 100% sure, but I believe it has led to some broken legs and death of my chicks.