We have few hawks around right now. We were speculating on the Yahoo group for silicon valley chickens that the fledglings are learning to hunt about now, and chickens are easy prey.
In our area a LARGE flock of crows has moved in, and they chase off single birds of prey, so I am not too...
Yes, many I think. Two I belong to are yahoo groups. One is California and one is Silicon Valley area.
SVChickens (do a yahoo group search if this url does not work)
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svchickens/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1
and the yahoo california group is...
Thanks for the heads up! I will keep an eye open. Funny you mention the rabbit hutch, I saw one advertised in my area and thought to myself, "should I get it?" LOL I think I have enough right now.
Today I woke up to a horrible rough growling this am, and went out to find my pairs had...
Starshrike, I have button quail, which of course are too small to bother eating. I keep them in a pigeon coop I got on Craigslist. It is wonderful- easy to take care of them. I like that they are higher off the ground. The coop is rather like most rabbit hutches, but in this case has a hard...