We have an adult Salt-and-Pepper Kingsnake that lives under our back porch and will periodically see green and diamondback water snakes in the ditch that borders our property as well as corn snakes' black racers and a beautiful coachwhip that lives under our neighbors shed. Snakes may cost you...
He is spoiled like you wouldn't believe and a great protector of the goats and chickens even plays with the chickens sometimes (a weird version of tag where they will take turns chasing each other around). It's his 3rd cat he's killed along with 2 racoons and a handful of possums. It was...
We are currently in the process of hatching out eggs with 2 broody hens and this is our 3rd time hatching chicks. Each time we have separated the hen from the flock after about 10 days of them being broody and we have never had issue with reintroducing the chicks to the flock although like the...
Ok after relocating a game camera we seem to have caught the culprit. A new cat had been spotted in the area that no one knew who it belonged too. A cat was seen checking out the coop and run for a few days. None of the neighbors could identify the cat. After letting the chickens start roaming...
More a mix of things. You kind of get a sense once you've raised a couple batches of chicks. It's easier after the first few days of hatching and these are older
With the death of his father (blue Australorp) Silky is now our sole remaining rooster. I wish I had pictures of his sisters before they were killed (racoon or cat we aren't sure) They were both solid black and all the other roosters from this group (2 were potted 2 given away) were solid black...
Taking to a shelter if you can catch them is always a good idea but people should never shy away from killing animals that attack their flocks. Especially as killing a single animal that is part of a group will deter other members of the group from returning. Especially social animals like...
The Rooster died this morning. Decided to do an animal necropsy and the ribs under the bite were broken with 2 punctures down into the lungs.
RIP Punky Rooster
His Son Silky will be the lone rooster (with 12 hens) until our Current broody hatches out her eggs.
The back yard in a 3/4 acre 6 ft hurricane fence enclosure. from the base of the hurricane fence to a foot underground is a wall made of concrete blocks where the fence isn't up against the house. There is a 10x10x8 coop with a 10x16 fully enclosed run with the bottom foot to a foot underground...
Look into your local laws before releasing an animal away from where it has been caught. In some places that can be illegal. Always better to just kill the animal that has become a nuisance unfortunately.
For those now who were living in the unincorporated part of East Baton Rouge Parish that is now Part of the City of St George. Something that has not made the news but is important to everyone with backyard chickens is the New city has a revised animal control policy. After months of calls and...