Recent content by Chinook203

I am agreeing with you. I only have experience with opossums and raccoon kills and that is very doable for a raccoon. We hardly have any blood from their kills unless we interrupt them eating. Our pens, they weren't able to carry an adult chicken out, they just ate them in the pens.

It is horrible and just went through the same thing. I hope you get them. We debated back and forth on poison. Part of me wishes we had after the first birds. I wish I knew what our neighbor uses for poison as it kills them instantly. The animal will be laying dead over the carcass. I...

I guess I need to take pics of the damage these last 2 raccoons did to our pens. We know it was the raccoons as our game cameras have them doing it. I will try to remember to get pics before we tear all the pens down. Anyways, the raccoons chewed through landscaping timbers on one pen before...

I am mostly posting for sympathy & hugs! I came to this group years ago when I first started with chickens. Have lost birds here and there over the years, majority to opossums, 2 incidents with raccoons. All were taken care of pretty quickly. This latest incident was with a couple of...

Hatching is a beautiful, terrifying, heart-rending, terrifying, breathtaking, did I mention terrifying? OMG Sooooooooooo true! Soooooooooooooo true!

Agree! I think all of us at one point or another want to help the chick..........I have to resist and keep telling myself ......if Mother Nature wants it to live, it will make it out of that egg. I have one that has been trying all day to get out of the egg......I am making myself not. I don't...

Hun, we all get attached to our animals. When you are raising chicks and love animals, to me its natural. I cried over finding the baby silkie under the wire mesh in the incubator. They're so dang cute at this age. There is much more experience here, but me personally, I keep trying. You...

That stinks. I keep wishing the best for you. I noticed mine drinking, but not much. I sat down with him awhile ago and put the water up to his beak, he drank several times. I finally got him to eat a bit, not sure if he had eaten or not, he's actually just starting to fluff up. Second one...

He's walking, but not the most graceful.......worse than a normal new chick. He's a fighter (or maybe dumb)......he gets knocked down and gets right back up to be with the other chicks. Let's hope they both do great!

How is your chick this morning? I hope biddy was able to help you. Mine is still surviving......pathetic, but survived!

Figured I'd post an update here so far on the hatch. The little guy made it through the night and like youngbiddy's chick, he got out of his coffee cup. He is pathetic looking. He drank some water and is trying to navigate his way around the other chicks. He's about the same size as the silkie...

Well that is good news. He is definitely sitting still in the cup. Finally got a silky hatched out. I forgot the size difference of silkies when they hatch with "regular" birds. Just found out my boyfriend is bringing home 10 chicks, he didn't ask what age, so may have to get another...

I put him in a large coffee cup with a wash cloth. He can move easily if needed, but he went straight to sleep. So.......this thing SHOULD dry up eventually and fall off or am I going to have to do something? This definitely doesn't have the look of a healthy chick. Thanks for the...

No not at all, still pretty moist......... I kind of worry about it tearing out of him the way he is all over the place. I really am trying to leave this thing alone, but am wondering if better to put him in brooder protected......

Do you think maybe put it in a cloth into a cup or something. This thing is bouncing all over the place and the lower part of the egg is still attached......