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I actually work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at a refuge. I could bore you with details of the place but long story short it was a former Army chemical weapons manufacturing facility during WWII and the Cold war and afterwards was leased to Shell oil to manufacture pesticides. It had a...

The weather is better in most places outside of the Mountain West, except when I lived in Hawaii. When I lived in Arizona they used to joke “we got 6 inches of rain today, one raindrop every six inches!” I would tell them that it only rained once the entire two years I lived in Hawaii, it just...

The ducks are cool, but dreadfully messy and the creve/Polish roo is my favorite too ;). Shes actually not a very large cat at all. But a hen, even as an adult, isn't much of a challenge for a an animal designed specifically for hunting. Yeah, we've had mice get into vehicles and equipment...

Yeah, I like my cat, so I won't be killing her. We hired her through a local shelter's "working cat" program to keep the rodent population in our barns, outbuilding, and around the house in check and so far she has done a great job. Used to be every time it snowed I'd find tons of little mouse...

Ah, so it was my misunderstanding then. Yeah, sounds like you may have just missed the boat by a week or so. This spring I lost three 6 week old chicks when they escaped the run while I was at work and our barn cat wiped them out, and recently I had to rescind all "free range" privileges after...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you tried to get her to hatch RJF eggs and then she abandoned them. Only after she had given up on that clutch you decided to incubate the eggs you had saved from her. By the time your incubated eggs had hatched, she would have no longer been broody...

One thing I would like to point out is a hen who does not set and hatch the clutch of eggs is not going to accept chicks that are handed to her from an incubator, even if they are genetically her chicks. To her they are just a bunch of random babies that she has no clue who they are or where...