I just wanted to share what happened to my girl Big Bird yesterday in hopes to help anyone one else this may have happened to. Yesterday when I went out to feed my chickens I noticed my chicken named Big Bird acting very sleepy. She really didn't want to eat or walk around, just lay down. The...
I have found that fishing line stretched from tree to tree with shiny ribbons or small tins....like the ones from pot pies, or small shiny pinwheels, every few feet or so have been keeping the hawks away. They know better than to get entangled in the line and don't like the shiny items flopping...
Some of our pigeons have a one eyed cold. We have brought them in the house and are giving them meds, eye drops, etc. But one of them looks really ill. Praying she pulls through, its my little black and white one.
A hawk swooped down and actually hit the chicken wire while trying to get at my chickens. My coop and little courtyard are fenced in so I was very surprised that it even tried. I Can't believe it was so bold. My chickens and chicks ran inside their coop and didn't come back out for hours.
This morning I woke up to the sounds of panic in the chicken coop. Upon inspection we found a chick dead. When my hubby moved the nesting box there was a snake behind it. Needless to say he took care of it....but its belly had another chick in it. So good news we found the killer, but lost two...
No.The babies were up in their nesting box. It's about six feet high inside our coop. The door was locked also. But a snake could of dropped down from a tree, or so I was told.