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Silkie question... DH and I were talking about what our next 3 birds would be.  He's concerned about Silkies.  He works with someone who has a mean Silkie that attacks.  Is this a common Silkie trait?  I don't know if the Silkie his co-worker has is a Cockeral/Roo or Pullet/Hen.

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Originally Posted by Shyla-C 

 

I'll take him. PM me your address or where you would like to meet, I'm still sorta familiar with the Bonny Lake area. Do you want him gone before Sunday?

So... what time is the Freezer Camp on Sunday.  If it is afternoon, I'd like to go to watch.  I need to see if this is something I really could do.  Even if I did find a place to raise meat birds, I just read in a  book that meat bird boys will constantly have a crow-off contest.  That, in itself, will probably limit the possibility of finding some place to raise them.

Shyla.... I understand, Trish has to get rid of her Silkie.  Don't be offended but I probably won't be able to watch that one.  I'll just turn my head.  I've seen Trish's Silkies and they are cute!

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

All my neighbors said that the people who owned the house before us had owned peacocks; they said there was routinely a peacock on someone else's roof, or sounding like it was screaming from the backyard; apparently they scream?! And I thought chickens made weird noises!

 During mating season. The peacock sounds like a huge cat "MEE_OOOOWWW".....and when the peahen goes off in the woods to nest, he was constantly calling for her and looking for her. (I thought it was pretty cute, he was so forlorn!)

Peahens honk like geese. Which I didn't know before I owned one!

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Originally Posted by RonB 

I caught a few with the snap traps by putting the bait under the trigger and not on top of it. Their buddies must have saw them dead in the traps, because they stopped biting at the traps. so I put out bait sticks. and with seven snap traps still set, we killed nine rats in about 1 1/2 months but NO more by the snap traps
 

Ron, I've wondered that about the sticky traps, too.  Seems they all got spooked and started to leave my compost bin alone - even though we knew they were still living at the neighbor's.  The neighbors told us they were still seeing them.

We would line up 6 sticky traps inside the bin, and put all the food along the furthest edge from the hole where they ate through the sidewall of the compost bin.  They would try to jump over to the food along that edge.  We were catching them like crazy - then, all of the sudden, nothing.  Sticky traps no longer seem to work.  I told my husband once I bet they had all gone back to their nest and told the others to stay away from anything that looked like a sticky trap.

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Originally Posted by Teva 

Peahens honk like geese. Which I didn't know before I owned one!

Drama honks.  Maybe she's part peafowl.   That could explain the massive size.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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Originally Posted by itsren 

Silkie question... DH and I were talking about what our next 3 birds would be.  He's concerned about Silkies.  He works with someone who has a mean Silkie that attacks.  Is this a common Silkie trait?  I don't know if the Silkie his co-worker has is a Cockeral/Roo or Pullet/Hen.

I am quite sure every breed of rooster is capable of flogging.  I have never heard of hens being mean to humans, except when they are broody.  Silkie hens are super sweet.    It's also very easy to get really beautiful silkies in the area.

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

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And they can fly, so if you don't free range them, they have to be in a big covered (net) pen with roosts about 10ft high.

 

I had no idea they could fly.  Not so sure what I'd do if I saw a peacock flying my direction!    That's amazing, they fly much higher than my chickens, that's for sure.  It must be kind of cool to have them around, though.  They're so pretty when we see them at the zoo.

All my neighbors said that the people who owned the house before us had owned peacocks; they said there was routinely a peacock on someone else's roof, or sounding like it was screaming from the backyard; apparently they scream?! And I thought chickens made weird noises!

They sound like a cat in pain.

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Originally Posted by ByN8ureHomstead 

Awwwwww! That is so cute!

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Originally Posted by ByN8ureHomstead 

That little chick is probably thinking "move over!"   How adorable! Are these yours?