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    What's the temperature where you are???

    Every Chicken keeper should spend time in their Coop. In my case, the coop is also my garage - which also has office space. I spent about 2 hours in their Sunday morning, because I had to get some work done. That's the time when the roof directly faces the sun. It got up to 100+. I GOT...
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    heat wave!!!!

    yesterday was one of those 110 degree days. the birds clustered in the shade under a large bush. I moved a water bowl there and also a frying pan that needed cleaning. At about 7, the coop/ garage was still broiling. BUT if I wait too long, they go roost somewhere else - and then they are...
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    Andante - Adagio - Allegretto - Chicken Language in Opera Terms

    Little Orange Guy (rooster) did this last night. not crowing - just talking. estimated starting near "C above middle C", then sliding higher in pitch. Like he was just trying out his voice, but didn't feel like crowing.
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    For Rodents - Has Anybody tried the Bucket trap with the Cheap Plastic Yellow Top ?

    There's a large meadow, with 2 BEAUTIFUL California Kingsnakes, about 50 yards from the house. Also, I have seen neighbor cats, as well as my own cat, "hanging around" the entrance to the meadow. So that is where I release the rodents I catch. The ONLY thing that is working is the large...
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    For Rodents - Has Anybody tried the Bucket trap with the Cheap Plastic Yellow Top ?

    I am getting close to having a sort of Manual treadle feeder. i.e. just giving the birds what they will actually eat, with maybe a 20% overage that the rats eat. I have a LAZY indoor cat who just ignores the rats and mice. He has some Scarecrow effect, but mostly they are not afraid of him...
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    Baby bird with deformed leg

    It would probably benefit from having a bird friend about the same size. If you have the patience to feed it ... I would be offering rotten bananas, apple sauce etc. to the tip of its beak, careful not to cover the airholes. I think the best working assumption is that, The Animal wants to...
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    My housing auth is trying to trap chickens

    You're GREAT for trying to Change something ! Unfortunately, the Default Setting in the US towards wild animals is, Terrible Cruelty. Where I live, is like Yellowstone, 70 square miles of forest. (vs. Yellowstone 3400+ square miles). When people go to Yellowstone, it would obviously be Very...
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    For Rodents - Has Anybody tried the Bucket trap with the Cheap Plastic Yellow Top ?

    I made a mistake a few years ago when investigating something else underneath the house. There is a cube shaped space - with a wood top - to gain access to the crawl space. I didn't put the wood top back ... and then the blackberries overgrew it ... 3 times. Now I have to do 1 blackberry...
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    More Discreet Signs of a Mountain Lion visit

    UPDATE - well there were 4 missing birds on Wednesday afternoon. One of the roosters, Red John, made an appearance Thursday morning. Then around noon, the Grey hen and the White Rooster showed up. The White Rooster REALLY had me going. He kept crowing and I couldn't find him. Like one of...
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    For Rodents - Has Anybody tried the Bucket trap with the Cheap Plastic Yellow Top ?

    I would never use a bucket that the chickens have access to. I had a 5 gallon bucket without water in the indoor coop. Once Gertie fell into it and tried to fly out of it. Hard to do because it's a bucket. Anyway thanks for all the suggestions ! The rats are gray footed woodrats...
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    For Rodents - Has Anybody tried the Bucket trap with the Cheap Plastic Yellow Top ?

    how is that different from just a bucket of water ?
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    For Rodents - Has Anybody tried the Bucket trap with the Cheap Plastic Yellow Top ?

    Do the rats trying to jump out of the bucket, instead of grabbing onto the rim of the bucket, they grab onto the rolling thing ?
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    Did Raptive develop their own Bulletin Board software ?

    I have been talking with 2 friends, 1 who had a Wordpress site about economics, another who had a Simple Machines software forum about history. In general, I really like the phpBB type of forum software. I am amazed at how people can live with the tiny, miniscule little message windows in...
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    Magnesium Welding Rod - I don't understand

    A frequent demonstration in high school and college chemistry classes is the simple burning of magnesium. it burns very brightly ! A local business gave me a pile of Metal Welding Rod about 5 years ago. Now I am trying to sell it - if I can figure out what it is...
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    For Rodents - Has Anybody tried the Bucket trap with the Cheap Plastic Yellow Top ?

    I'm thinking about buying one of these https://www.amazon.com/Bucket-Lid，Mouse-Lid，Auto-Outdoor-Compatible/dp/B0CKY3DSZY/ref=asc_df_B0CKY3DSZY They get very mixed reviews. The basic mechanism seems sound, they're just really flimsy, and sometimes the rats somehow chew through the top. Since...
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    My housing auth is trying to trap chickens

    Yes, in a pile of about 10,000 other documents. If you investigate it, you will stop eating Agribiz Chicken and Agribiz Pork. I'm not sure why they decided they needed such cruel methods to be profitable. I watched a video (the guy with the beard), a man who kills a rooster the old fashioned...
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    Official BYC Poll: Do you use electrolytes in your chickens' water during the summer?

    It's very interesting how the Micro-nutrients are part of Nutrition. Not sure why but I bought non-iodized salt and used that for about 3 months. I recall a minor difference in mental cognition & energy levels. And went back to iodized salt. Also interesting is how the cells moderate intake...
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    My housing auth is trying to trap chickens

    The way that modern American Agribiz kills chickens is DEFINITELY animal cruelty. They are killed with heat and CO2, similar to being left in a hot car in the sun.
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    Official BYC Poll: Do you use electrolytes in your chickens' water during the summer?

    Do they benefit from micro nutrients like Selenium ?
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    More Discreet Signs of a Mountain Lion visit

    Today when I went to put the 6 bird flock in the garage coop, there were only 3 birds visible, the Alpha rooster "Moonwalker" and 2 hens, Plaid and Little Black Hen (who are both d'Uccle). It looked like I had lost 4 birds, since the 5 year old hen from the front yard flock was also nowhere to...
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