If we had killed the possum, it'd be by way of .22. Done. Not sure why the conclusion of drowning was jumped to. I wouldn't wish that on any critter.
However, hubs saw the litter and apparently IS as soft as I am. I got home and he had her loaded on the 4 wheeler. Needless to say, we moved...
Run is 6' tall encased in hardware cloth with a 2' apron. Double locked door. Costs got higher than we intended and we skimped on the ceiling. Figures, right.
I had to go pick up DD from a study group. Hubs will deal with our captive when he gets to the house. I left it in his hands ... as he's...
Yes .. it's a danger to personal property therefore we have the right to kill it. Was considering having hubs take it up the road a few miles (where no one lives) and relocate her.
Coop locked down tight and run will be getting a hardware cloth lid put on it. Would like a line of hotwire while...
Y'all.
I had a broody hen that hatched out 9 adorable EE fluff balls for us on April 15. I shut mama bird and babies in our chicken run by themselves until the babies got a little bigger. Sunday night something climbed the post to our run, tore a 4" hole in the bird netting at the top and...
I got distracted this morning watching Mama chooking at food for her babies. So sweet. They'll be a week old tomorrow. While I'm standing there, the wind blew open the run door ... and the rooster took 3 girls out. I'd have left them out for the day, but we haven't fenced off the garden yet...
All 5 are here! :celebrate Two splash, three blue. Pretty confident already the last to hatch is a cockerel. Already has black spots in the down like the previous early showing cockerel from the last batch.
It did! I recall thinking when we set her on the clutch it was gonna be a looooonnnggg three weeks. Then Tuesday, I realized it just a couple more days. Been dealing with a sick DD so I wasn't exactly focused on the birds.
Mama Opal came out to eat when I brought her food this morning. Able to peek in and two pipped eggs!! Babies coming soon!!
She ate a few bites and went straight back to cover the littles :) Good mama.
Eggs are due to hatch this weekend!?! .. gracious, time flies. Candled eggs last night and one was starting to get stinky.
Took video of day 16 candling. Order of eggs:
EE eggs were first - B, F2, A, F1 (F1 & F2 were refrigerated)
then EExRSL - 3, 4