I have 2 turkens and a silver-laced Wyandotte ready to start droppin' 'em. I bought a bale of straw today and put some in their laying box. At first they didn't mind, but a little while later, every last bit of straw was out of the box and spread astonishingly even over the the ground of their...
After a series of predator attacks, I had been left with 10 hens and 1 hen duck. They were living with our former landlord, as he had the coop and we had nowhere else to put them. I came by every day to water them, feed them, and collect eggs. The landlord had left town for a while, and had left...
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I was going to say the same thing - I think the "predators and pests" in this case is your brother. You wouldn't be in this situation if not for him. This sort of nonsense spills over into other aspects of their life and needs to be dealt with sooner rather than later. I'd have a...
It all makes sense now- it wasn't a cat or a dog. It was a wolverine. I saw it face to face. Sadly, my shotgun malfunctioned.
We have a trap out for it right now. Tomorrow morning it should be dead. Its pelt should go for $60-90 towards the $250+ that it will cost to replace my lost birds.
He'll be 16 in a couple weeks. He loves those birds as much as I do- I just don't think he fully understood that ducks and chickens are quite defenseless. I think that he was under the impression that if they can't get out, nothing can get in.
Dog this time. I am down to 3 BRs, 3 EEs, 1 SLW, 1 AU or JG, 1 GC, 1 WPR, 1 mallard drake who may or may not make it, and 1 cayuga (don't know the gender) who is badly limping.
Hmm... I didn't know comets could go broody- I thought it was bred out of them. Once in a blue moon, I suppose.
BTW- Congratulations! There are very few things in life that can bring the amount of happiness you get from watching a chicken family.
If it was anyone else's cat I would kill it. It is a bloodthirsty little rat, and now it knows that it can kill my birds and get away with it. I don't think I have ever wanted to kill an animal more- even when hunting. Some of the birds she killed were only a week old when I got them- some less...
Just got 3 sweet little pullets- 1 JG, 1 AU, and 1 Silver-Laced Wyandotte. I know that in time I will be able to tell the JG and the AU apart, but right now they like like clones of each other. I can't find a single difference. I need help!
I live by a lake and I had to stop kids from throwing a basketball at geese. I said to "quit harassing the wildlife" and they didn't pay much attention to me. Then I began rowing over to their paddle boat. They began hauling butt.
I have 3 new ducklings. Mama is a Runner and I haven't a clue about the dad. 2 are little yellow ones, but the third is yellow with some grayish patterns on its back. I know for a fact that they all have the same parents, so the possibility of the dad having a sex link gene is all that I can...