I would imagine as soon as one takes an interest, the others will play keep away with it!
Are you seeing the mouse during the day? If it's at night, i think the chickens wouldn't wake up to know about it. But also a mouse won't jump as high as a rat, hanging will probably work for the food. Do...
I've only ever had to give supplements to my silkies and polkie for wry neck, but that had me thinking overall weakened immunity, so i too did a couple corid treatments when they were young. Im sure the birds in the area contribute to the ongoing coccidiosis issue you have, especially with...
Let's see if you guys can view this.. totally what im thinking of for a chunnel, but with plants growing over/around it.
https://m.facebook.com/video.php/?video_id=575725764749195
Thank you for that link, looking at it now.
Besides the coopers hawks, we have the red shouldered hawk, turkey vultures, black vultures (they won't wait for things to be dead before poking away), and whatever is in migration (like the Mexican Eagle), then skunks, racoons, opossums (caught a...
Thank you 😊 the raised bed herbs have grown in more, and i want to add something pretty/edible (maybe passion fruit) that can grow up on the hardware cloth. I love those pretty country/english garden scenes around the chicken coop, but i need heat/drought tolerant plants in this climate (central...
Well they have a pretty large covered run that they live in, but they really enjoy getting out to eat grass and find bugs. A medium chicken tractor might work, but I'm not sure they'd cooperate enough to get inside of it.
But.. you're making me think of chunnel ideas 💡 🤔
Pic is current...
Yes, this is what i am thinking... poor girls finally have a morning routine they enjoy (they line up at the door waiting to go play) but even if i don't see a hawk, i swear i can hear them close by. I let them out for a minute this morning, but i couldn't relax so i sent them back inside. I...