But I forgot to mention, they do look like security lights, as you say, and the human predators will think twice before trying to break into our barn or house.
I wish they had worked for me. I purchased 7, placed them high and low and in between. The fox and raccoons still kidnapped my chickens and ducks. Now I have 2 great Pyrenees and the predators NEVER come around.
My Swedish hen pushed every single newly hatched baby out of the nest. Every morning when I came out to check things, I found a few newly hatched babies, dead, outside the nest. Five in all! It was very sad. I took all remaining eggs away from her and placed them under a different hen. She...
Update on our little topsy turvy duckling. His cocked head is completely straightened out, but he still gets to twirling round and round when he gets excited. He twirls sometimes on land, sometimes on water and seems REALLY wired. But he eats and swims and sleeps and follows his mother and...
Our ducks eat crawdads, minnnows and frogs, but not that often. They prefer the roots and grass and bugs. A fish would have to be quite small for our ducks to eat it.
I found a newly hatched duckling today far from her nest and mother. Behaving in a very odd manner, head cocked to the side, very off balance and sometimes walking in circles. Could she be blind? Brain damaged? I placed her under a broody goose, who longs to be a mommy; she is caring for the...