EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

Uh no. Just saw a fox lurking around on the other side of my fence. It has a pup too. Or kit or whatever your supposed to call it.
 
Choot 'im.
Will if I can get the drop on him. Or her. My son thinks he saw where they went where their den might be by the tracks. It took off that way he chased it lol. Better get my live trap back! It's borrowed out for a racoon problem my in laws had. They got it though. They have quail.
 
I gotta be careful shooting in town at night when it's so quiet. I got a rugar pellet gun that will do some real damage that ain't very loud but I don't know if it will take down a fox. We usually trap and haul them off for the nasty part. Except for the opossum that made a home in my flex ducting and tried to get in my house! That dude got eliminated on the spot!
 
I am about to go out of town so of course I have two hens go broody. I have never broken a broody before; I like to let them hatch eggs but I won't be here. My husband is staying home but I don't think he wants to have to keep an eye on chicks so the poor broodies will have to be broken. :hitHopefully they will still go broody again in the Fall like usual.
 
Hey, check it out - photo of a snake that had been eating eggs - you can see the eggs inside as bumps. From user Dmontgomery's album:

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We live in southern Louisiana in the middle of a very large forest with a creek running through our property. I have spent the last 2 months looking for this thing. It has taken several baby chicks and well over a dozen eggs that I know of. We moved out all the stationary nesting boxes thinking it was hiding under them. Cleaned out all the hay, litter, and bedding in the coop and the run but found nothing. I moved a "temporary" nest box yesterday and noticed it felt too heavy. This thing had burrowed under the hay in that box and was hidden until I took the lid off and dumped the hay out.
 
I gotta be careful shooting in town at night when it's so quiet. I got a rugar pellet gun that will do some real damage that ain't very loud but I don't know if it will take down a fox. We usually trap and haul them off for the nasty part. Except for the opossum that made a home in my flex ducting and tried to get in my house! That dude got eliminated on the spot!
I tried to trap a fox last year. He got over half my flock and never went in a trap. I think the chicken houses started having problems and threw out some poisoned chickens, I haven't seen it since last July.
 
We live in southern Louisiana in the middle of a very large forest with a creek running through our property. I have spent the last 2 months looking for this thing. It has taken several baby chicks and well over a dozen eggs that I know of. We moved out all the stationary nesting boxes thinking it was hiding under them. Cleaned out all the hay, litter, and bedding in the coop and the run but found nothing. I moved a "temporary" nest box yesterday and noticed it felt too heavy. This thing had burrowed under the hay in that box and was hidden until I took the lid off and dumped the hay out.
Noted---I'll stay far, far away from LA at all costs. :oops:
 

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