Yikes! We have some that hang around here, but I don't think they're that big. My rooster is a good sky watcher, and even the ducks run for cover when he says to. The big hawks still make me nervous though.
I appreciate the offer, but I think I have to hold off on getting anymore. You know, until I get a bigger coop. I was supposed to have one in the fall, to accomodate my spring flock expansion, but....stuff happened. I'm thinking about letting the muscovies hatch some more chickens for me...
Haha! I was thinking about a snake. One of those big blacksnakes I sometimes see crossing the road in my semi rural area. It is not an easy thing for me to say poison is the answer. One:where are they going to die? Flailing in the field for a bird to eat? And then that bird dies? Oh, my heart is...
Oh, no. Rats. I'm having that problem. My closest neighbor has what is pretty much a junkyard, so...they found my poultry yard. I moved all of my coops to the other side of my property, but they are still around, chewing through a coop. I'm afraid to use any poison, there's a lot of hawks and...
RIR, Buckeyes, Delawares, SLW, Naked Necks, leghorns, black australorps, buff orp, barred rock, rosecomb, a few mixed breeds, and one I have no idea what kind he is.