Recent content by Emdy

I have one at the top too, but unless your touching the ground it doesnt shock. Useless really. Unless you can tell me how to set it up to shock without being grounded. I dont know how.

Thanks to everyone for their help. Im going to start trapping for a fox and a bobcat and see what i get. And i do have electric wire at the bottom of fence. So it is jumping to the top of the fence. Im thinking bobcat so far. Will a fox jump to top of 5 foot fence grab a rooster and then jump...

I have lost several chickens. One a night. No signs of anything, just gone. Except the last two. There were feathers everywhere. Big pile in the run, big pile on other side of fence (5 foot high) and a trail of feathers through the yard across the street and into the thicket. Never been able to...

That could be it. I'm not worried about them because they're otherwise perfectly normal. I wad just wondering if anyone else had experienced this. Thanks for the reply!

I have 2 Welsh Harlequin drakes and 3 hens over a year old. My hens have been laying for several months now and one hen is finally sitting (yay)! My question is the drakes feathers are changing colors and I don't know why. They have always been the typical dark colors of this breed but have...

Thanks for your reply. I wasn't going to try and force them to sit. They may want to but they refuse and always have refused to go into the coop. Even before i started locking them up at night they would sleep on the other end of the run. I guess they feel safer there. I may incubate some but...

A few months ago I had a hawk or owl attack wipe out half my flock, so I have been putting them up at night and haven't lost anymore. I found their first eggs the day before tragedy struck. They have since been laying in there coop and I let them out in the morning. They WILL NOT go in the coop...

Yes from here on out they sleep indoors. They're very hesitant to leave the coop in the mornings they have literally spent all day with the door open. Its never been a regular thing though so maybe once i get them in the routine they'll do better. They also haven't laid eggs since the horror...

The other day my welsh harlequins laid there first eggs 5 Hens and 5 Drakes. The next morning I go out to check for eggs and my most beautiful girl is completely gone and another girl has a deep cut in her shoulder and died the next day. I found a drake dead from apparently nothing there were no...

I have 10 young welsh harlequins. 5 drakes and 5 hens. I found 11 eggs in random places all over their pen today. Their first eggs. I've read that it's normal for them to lay all over. My question is, if they do this how will they go broody to hatch them. They're on a hill side so a lot of the...

I'm getting welsh harlequin ducks and buff orphington chickens very soon and have almost finished my coop. my run is foing to be very large, much to large to cover. There is an exsisting 4 foot wood fence on one side and i was going to continue that 4 foot fence with t posts and some kind of...

Hi Im new here obviously and my wife and i want to get some chickens and ducks. We both grew up with and now that were married with two little girls we want them to have the same experiences. We want to start off small. 6 Buff Orphingtons and 6 Welsh Harlequins. Were online can I buy a small...