Recent content by Barry42001

Moving to are a near Venus Florida, very remote lots of wildlife. Mountain lions, black bear, boar, large alligators bobcat to name the big uns lol. Have to clear a acre or so to homestead will raise chicken ( chick I had some ass syole, unbelievable) won't have that here, will buy 16 chicks...

Normal healthy are does not present itself as food in the chicken mind be that what it may. Damage the egg and changes the circumstances and how it presents itself is food cuz it can see the food

Didn't have any egg eaters per se but we did have is chickens being ever the delicate ballerinas would occasionally puncture shell with a claw if that happens all bets are off they will eat that egg because it's damaged and presents itself as food. Thin shelled eggs if they survived the...

I didn't know it but the post office has changed its shipping policies with regards to hatching eggs or anything labeled fragile. Not only must you clearly mark the package as being Fragile on all surfaces. You must pay for special handling to avoid having your parcel with a hatching eggs being...

Night time temps never dipped below 55 durning that timeframe she was fine ate like a pig. Feathering was coming in nicely. can always large enough that she could get away from anything trying to reach through the bars and she was actually perching on branches that I put in there specifically...

Clearly she didn't let herself out

I will tell you this much I knew the neighborhood wasn't good because several windows on the side of the house at when I moved were bullet holes in the glass windows and the holes were patched in the wall but it seems like things had quieted down but I guess the hood will always be the hood.

I knew that the neighborhood that I lived in was not a particularly good neighborhood it would never occur to me that someone would come into my backyard during the course of the a.m. and steal my chicken my little chick she was just starting to feather out so I put her out so I kept her in a...

I will be moving shortly from where I am to a place about 50 miles north or 20 miles south of Lakeland Florida it is 5.5 Acres in the sticks

Like I said will get chicks and then hatch my own eggs