Recent content by 808inVA

Just 1, first (that we know of) from our VA flock! It's on the small side, but will look great scrambled in the morning...

Faverolle mix roo

Yup, 2017 Victory hammer S, only 1400 miles on her. With the rise in gas prices that odometer is gonna jump a bit too.

This...raccoons are extremely intelligent and will not fall for the same trick twice. If you relocated a raccoon that you caught in a box trap, the person that inherits the pest will have a much tougher time catching or killing that raccoon.

Im not sure how much the comb relates to the health of the bird, or if it helps project a more dominant appearance to other roosters. I had RIR rooster that was dominant over a flock of about 20 hens and 2 other roosters he grew up with (barred rock and buff orpington). Over the winter he...

Ill take the pullets for sure, sent you a PM...

Mine are the same way, slept in the coop every night until something ate half my flock, now I have to catch them every night and put them inside. I picked up a new mature rooster the other day who has no issues sleeping in the coop, he beds down in a nesting box. The original birds wont go...

Not yet, I set up some trail cams around the coop and ran a fox pro last night for a few hours trying to call something in, saw nothing but rabbits. I was gone for a week and came home to 3 birds roosting on my porch and another in a tree by the coop. Found a couple spots in the yard with...

Caroline County here, rebuilding my flock after predators took all but 4 of my birds last week when I was out of town. If anyone has a lead of Java pullets it would be greatly appreciated!

Raccoons are pretty easy to trap, the first time. They learn quickly, if it defeats the trap once that method is no longer useful. Box traps work great but Ive come home from work to find a chicken inside, dead from heat exhaustion. I prefer the Duke dog proof traps for raccoons, you can use...

The 3 larger chicks are from our incubator (3 for 6, not bad for first time ever using an incubator) and the rest are from our speckled Sussex hen and Plymouth rock rooster. The small guy in the corner is the newest, hatched last night/this morning and either cannot open its eyes yet or has...

I hand feed them flies and other live, buzzing insects, the get accustomed to hands bringing food to them in the brooder pretty quick and after about a day they come to you.

Out of 9 layers I got 7; I didn't include the duck but she hasn't given me an egg since fall.