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  1. RoosterDon

    Snake Trap Works

    Do the eggs have to be fresh? The only two snakes that went in my trap (that is just like this one) went after eggs that had been in the trap for maybe two weeks. I heard they will KNOW that eggs are bad, but this was not the case with mine.
  2. RoosterDon

    Weird Happening

    So I killed the 4 and I thought the last snake on Sunday. I don't see anywhere where they are hiding or nesting on the second floor of my coop. Monday my 18 hens that average 8-14 eggs a day only laid 5. Okay, maybe an off day. This morning I put each of the 5 eggs in a separate nesting box...
  3. RoosterDon

    What video cams do you like?

    Something is getting my eggs during the day. I check every morning and night for predators, I got a snake yesterday. Today production is WAY off. I am convinced I have daytime visitors. What video cams do you like and why? I am looking for wireless that will be motion censored. I can't...
  4. RoosterDon

    My rooster has stopped crowing.

    Sounds like the no crow collar is working!
  5. RoosterDon

    Rat Snake

    Collecting eggs late in the afternoon I saw one on the second floor of my coop beside the nesting box. Went to get my pellet gun and it was gone in just those few minutes. I tipped the nesting box over and there it was, coiled up and digesting the 4 eggs it had snatched this afternoon. This...
  6. RoosterDon

    Snake Trap Works

    It is a minnow trap, the kind that has an inverted cone on both ends. I cut the smooth small circle off each end so the edges were jagged. Just trapped my first rat snake or chicken snake, a 4-5 footer. In fact, I had given up on the traps and left the eggs in there so they were really old...
  7. RoosterDon

    Snake

  8. RoosterDon

    Snake

    Thank you Ravyn! Great Idea that I would never have thought of. This is why I love this site. I feel bad for snake lovers, but I killed this guy last night. I don't have the time to trap and transport and release. I am leaving it out for the chickens to eat and get revenge on, circle of life...
  9. RoosterDon

    Snake

    Just went out to the coop and 3 more eggs were missing and my hen moved to the next door nesting box. Dead still a snakes bottom half was on top of the coop, its front part and head down the back side. Luckily it did not move while I got the tall ladder and was able to shoot him. I will know at...
  10. RoosterDon

    Surprise Chicks!

    Isn't this fun? !!! :) We never know what they will do. I was done with hatching, and had a new hen go broody. I kept taking her eggs away, daily, for 30 days. She never squawked or complained. She just sat there day and night and she broke me. She is not only one of my best brooders, but I...
  11. RoosterDon

    How often is too often?

    Yep, let her do her thing. Mother Nature knows what she is doing. :)
  12. RoosterDon

    10 Eggs Missing!!!!!

  13. RoosterDon

    10 Eggs Missing!!!!!

    I will try and post my coop pic here if I can. I converted our kids tree fort that I built for them 15 years ago into a coop. The second floor is where the roosting, egg laying and brooding/hatching occur. I have a small coop on the second floor where I move the brooding hen when she first...
  14. RoosterDon

    why would a mother leave her eggs?

    Has that hen brooded and hatched before? I have had two different hens start brooding after seeing the first then next hens brood and hatch, only to lose interest and leave their eggs, OR start sitting on other eggs. Who Knows. With this current hatch, I had a new hen sitting on 8 eggs, then...
  15. RoosterDon

    Two Broody Hens a Week Plus Apart

    Thanks for the nudge Choco. I had to peel the egg all the way off to it, and it was peeping and moving some. I put it under the hen and she accepted it and was cleaning it up some. I don't like its chances, but they are better now, and I will sure sleep better. I put the other eggs under her and...
  16. RoosterDon

    Two Broody Hens a Week Plus Apart

    THANK YOU!!! Going out now to give it some help!!!!!
  17. RoosterDon

    Two Broody Hens a Week Plus Apart

    So my first hen has hatched 11 of 19 eggs, 8 left, and just tonight she has moved off the eggs and is mothering the chicks that have hatched. I have 3 pipping so they should be fine. The other eggs, should I move them under the other hen? Will the other hen who is sitting on her eggs reject...
  18. RoosterDon

    83 Gram Egg (Rosie's new record)

    Our sweet sex link laid this monster. Yesterday was her previous record of 75 grams. She is a laying machine!
  19. 83 Gram egg, a new record from Rosie "The Machine", our wonderful sex link, sweetest lady ever too. Loves to come in the house with us.

    83 Gram egg, a new record from Rosie "The Machine", our wonderful sex link, sweetest lady ever too. Loves to come in the house with us.

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