1) You could try hitting it with an airsoft rifle but that really wont do much( I tried it before with one but it continued to come around) it might get the message and leave you alone eventually though
2) Call me a cruel SOB but kill it.....Their are so many stray cats around here its unreal(...
When I was trapping I always just used some sort of urine lure,But since your not out in the middle of the woods trapping it.I would do what the above person recommended and use a live chicken placed where it cant get it.
Get something chambered in .22 if your just looking for critter control. If your wondering which company to buy from, just about every companies pretty good unless your looking for improved accuracy but with a "critter control" gun I wouldn't worry about too much.
Just so it can heal I'd apply a antibiotic ointment such as Neosporin and just a band-aid wrapped around the toe and if their pecking at it their are different sprays ointments and goos you can get to apply so the other birds won't peck at it one that I've heard good things about is Blu-Kote.
Ive been looking for some hatcheries to order meat birds from in the spring and stumbled on hoovers hatchery has anyone had good luck with them?
Were the meat birds good as far as feed conversion and growth?
Collin
At around 4:00AM I heard the chickens going crazy so I go out to look and by chicken pen it had took a huge glob of feathers out of my mixed breed bantam that was sleeping against the cage and the wire was all bent and pulled out. I lost a Buff Orpington 2 days ago and thought it was a hawk or...
Not sure if this should go in the hatchery section or here but. I just got finished building my broiler pen and started looking around for meat birds and came across Meyer Hatcheries White Cornish just curious has anyone bought these and was happy with them.
The pen I built can hold 5-6...
The overwhelmingly strong ammonia smell you get when you walk into a Tyson or Smithfield house is the poop and urine if you have enough carbon such as wood chips, hay,etc you will not have the strong ammonia smell because the carbon absorbs the urine and poop and breaks it down and absorbs...
They should be fine as they have already met the bird. Their are also the people who separate the broody and just put the bird back in the coop with no problems.
Collin
I personally have never used used sav-a-chik or pro biotics or ACV. . .But if you would like to figure out what it is try mixing the water with just the ACV If its not slimy its not the vinegar. Then try it with just the Pro-Biotics if its not slimy its not the Pro-Biotics, then try with just...
Well if they were standards I would eat them but. . . You could try to give/sell them or put an ad in the paper etc. You could house them differently but then you have five different pens.
Collin
So my rooster attacking me is definitely wearing thin so, I'm thinking about processing him but I every video I watch their processing hens. I'm wondering if there is any difference between the butchering procedure of a hen and rooster. Do you butcher a rooster differently .
Also what would be...
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Last time I went roller skating I had Internal bleeding, Broken Ribs and it hurt to sit for a week after.
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