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I just came in from the coop. Found a possum in there just seconds from getting another hen about 8 last evening. My husband shot it three times in the body area with a 45 cal pistol at close range (with hollow point bullets). It's still on the shelf in the 'unsecured' area of the coop (the...

We're new bee keepers, honey bees of course. We have two hives, just got the bees last week. They are in the field where the chickens free range but inside a large wired cage area, to keep the chickens and guineas far enough away to keep both the bees and the birds safe. Yesterday our polish...

THANK YOU!!!!!!!! for posting your guinea eggs. I have 15 guineas-don't know how many boys vs girls- and also have 18 chicken hens that are just over a year old. Three days ago, by mid afternoon (that's about when my girls finish for the day but I've been collecting a couple times a day...

Thank you for the condolence. It's been 20 years. It's something you learn to live with. I still miss him every day, many times a day and I don't usually mention it to people...makes them uncomfortable but he really did loved guns and was a trophy winner shooter. I haven't shot a gun since...

Deep breath. Ok, sorry bout that last post. little panic there for a minute. another deep breath. I CAN do this.

OMG I wish my son was still living. He was really good at this kinda stuff. Bless his heart.

Now I feel really stupid. DH also got a good laugh out of that one. He said that ol BB gun wouldn't do anything but piss something off like a b sting at best. I went to TS and they have traps on sale, 2 traps - one is smaller - for $25. I remember paying $40 for one we loaned out about 5...

Ok, thank you for the input. I think I just needed a little push. I'm leaving right now to go to Tractor Supply for a trap. The hard part for us will be the killing part. We're not into hunting as you can probably tell. Only gun that works around here is the 45. Isn't that a bit big for...

Yesterday evening, I didn't go down to the coop until about 7:30. I have lights on inside the coop and also outside of the coop on a timer to come on well before dark and go off a couple hours after dark. I've watched the hens and the guineas hang out inside the pen and coop with the lights...

THANK YOU REBEL!!!! I have 15 guineas, 9 of them 19 weeks old and 6 that are 17 weeks old. My husband would get rid of them all today if I'd let him. He's been making me start to wonder if I made a mistake getting guineas. We live in the mountains with a lot of trees and wildlife. Our...

Sunny, Thanks so much for that info. We had gotten kinda, ok real, excited about hatching babies and watching mom take care of them (thanks to reading all the cool threads in hatching). I would like to try again. Not knowing when we will have another hen go broody, since we don't have a...

Oh thank you thank you for the info as I feel quite sure somebody will surprise me again with a broody fit. This hen was sitting in a laying nest right next to the pop door-like maybe 2' away and about a foot or so from the floor. We have 20-counting her-nosy hens and 15 absolutely stupid...

Hey cackler, I did think about that too. We got the eggs from a neighbor who has a rooster. His hens are sex links like most of ours. It was only eight eggs but I've read on posts that at 18 days or so they could be heard or would even move. We didn't notice any of that but also weren't...

I'm not even going to let myself fret over the eggs she was sitting on. They were so cold and after I warmed them back up and slipped them back into the nest, she got back off and stayed off of them. She spent the night on the roost pole with the rest of the girls and was one of the first...

Ok, I didn't do what I said I was going to do, not exactly anyways. We got some fertile eggs, marked them, and presented them to Cookie, our broody hen, right in the laying nest box in the main coop. She's been sitting on them pretty much constantly for 18 days and nights. We feed her by hand...

I've been reading and reading all the posts about broody's sitting and hatching. I've got a broody that's been sitting on eggs for 18 days. Yesterday I cleaned out the broody pen (4x8) really good and put fresh straw in it with a great nest box. I fixed the warming lamp with a regular light...

I should have also told you that before we got some DE I thought it would be dark like a potting soil or something. It looks like fine white powder.

DE is diatomaceous earth or fossil flour. I understand it is ground up fossils. I bought 50 pounds recently, before it turned cold outside. There's a difference in de that we bought mistakenly at Southern States and the 50 pounds we bought. Food grade won't harm any pets or critters or...

My girls are still laying pretty good, one sitting, 20 free ranging and I'm getting 14-18 each day. I use a light in the evening for a couple of hours after dark and then an hour or so in the morning before daylight. Talked to an oldtimer chicken owner yesterday who said that if chickens drink...

Last weekend the granddaughter and her little friend were visiting with us. I was in the kitchen fixing dinner and stopped to check on them. I caught them in the chicken yard, catching chickens by the tail and dunking them into a tank of water! Needless to say, they are banned but more to...