What are your best sources for inexpensive, plain 12-egg cartons in quantities of, say, 500? Nothing fancy, just plain cartons - paper or plastic, matters not to me. Thanks for your tips. I really want to find a good source cheaper than eggcartons.com, if there is one.
I lost 17 chickens to what I think are raccoons. At least one raccoon(?) got in through an enlarged opening in my 2x4 welded wire, where one of the crap welds failed. I fixed that and inspected elsewhere. I set a hav-a-hart trap outside. About five nights later something got into the trap, ate...
Could be molting. What are the signs? Lots of feathers around still, but I'm thinking they're from the massacre. Your comment about the coon coming back makes me think I should go out and set all my traps again. I did set them the first few nights, with carcasses - one got tripped, even, but no...
I had 30 hens. SOMEHOW a 'coon got into the pen through a very small breach in the 2x4 welded wire (made in China, no doubt, but that's another forum). I know the spot, because we found feathers stuck to the wire there where one hen was pulled through. Of the 30 hens, 17 were murdered. The...
So I was going to build my daughter and fam a small coop for 4-5 hens, but I dislocated a finger and cannot hammer for a couple of weeks. Anybody know where I can find a good pre-built coop in Manchester NH area?
It's an EE - but is it definitely a roo? Is the presence of spurs 100% tell-tale of a roo? This thing has never crowed like a roo, does not mount hens, I have no fertilized eggs...
Terrific-looking coop! But do you think the chicken wire is going to be enough? I have heard from a lot of people that it's not. My neighbor's chicken wire run was finally penetrated by raccoons. I've got 2x4 welded wire covered with chicken wire along the lower two feet to keep raccoons from...
Woudstra does not have them. Nobody does, it seems. I, too, have been searching for Droste chocolate apples for 15 years now, to no avail. The last time I bought some, I bought 10, when I saw them in a mall candy store in Burlington, Mass. The guy at Woudstra says he thinks they are not made any...