Wickedchicken6 glad to hear that the arm is getting better. Did you by chance injure the brachial nerve? I did that once target practicing with an antique rifle that had a lot of kick to it.The symptoms sound a lot like what you are experiencing. It seemed like it took it about 8 weeks to heal and settle down.
I went out yesterday to let the chickens out and did my usual check for new burrows around the coop and run. None! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I nipped the problem before it had a chance to escalate. Now I have to figure out where I can set a Tom Cat bait station to keep history from repeating itself. I had the funniest thing happen yesterday. I was out working on the garden and setting T-posts so I could put up a low fence to keep the dogs off the soil. I had the post pounder in the 'porch' area of my coop leaning against a wall, open end up and when I turned it to flip it over the end of the post, a half a cup of sunflower seeds poured out of it.They were all nicely hulled. Since I feed my birds sunflower seeds to add fat to their diet in the winter, I can only think that some mouse has been VERY busy out there. And I wiped out it's diligent work in a few seconds........sweet.
I let my baby OEGBs out for the first time yesterday. What fun! They are in a pen with two bachelor Welsummer roosters and those boys took to those babies instantly. They were so good with them to the point that they wound up sleeping with them last night. Such good daddy birds.
We have both gray and brown squirrels around us and for years had a problem with them coming up on our back porch and chewing on our oak steps. I finally managed to get the main perpetrator in my .17 sights and took him out then put metal stripping on the edge of the steps where they had rounded off the wood from their chewing. We have a lot of squirrels so I'm hoping the owls and hawks take some of them out this spring when they have babies to feed.
I went out yesterday to let the chickens out and did my usual check for new burrows around the coop and run. None! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I nipped the problem before it had a chance to escalate. Now I have to figure out where I can set a Tom Cat bait station to keep history from repeating itself. I had the funniest thing happen yesterday. I was out working on the garden and setting T-posts so I could put up a low fence to keep the dogs off the soil. I had the post pounder in the 'porch' area of my coop leaning against a wall, open end up and when I turned it to flip it over the end of the post, a half a cup of sunflower seeds poured out of it.They were all nicely hulled. Since I feed my birds sunflower seeds to add fat to their diet in the winter, I can only think that some mouse has been VERY busy out there. And I wiped out it's diligent work in a few seconds........sweet.
I let my baby OEGBs out for the first time yesterday. What fun! They are in a pen with two bachelor Welsummer roosters and those boys took to those babies instantly. They were so good with them to the point that they wound up sleeping with them last night. Such good daddy birds.
We have both gray and brown squirrels around us and for years had a problem with them coming up on our back porch and chewing on our oak steps. I finally managed to get the main perpetrator in my .17 sights and took him out then put metal stripping on the edge of the steps where they had rounded off the wood from their chewing. We have a lot of squirrels so I'm hoping the owls and hawks take some of them out this spring when they have babies to feed.