➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BantyChooks]

Ok, I guess between the dogs and not easy to get into, they go elsewhere.

There's certainly plenty of coops for them to choose from. Most of the people I know own chickens.

 

[007Sean]

I would have built a 10ft fence!

 

[BantyChooks]

I would have built a 10ft fence!

I wanted to, but y'know, compromises. The man doesn't care nearly so much as I do. Which is probably a good thing, because they'd live in a prison compound with guard dogs and spotlights otherwise.

 

[007Sean]

I'm glad we don't have bears where I am, i wouldn't have any birds....coons are bad enough.

 

[007Sean]

I wanted to, but y'know, compromises. The man doesn't care nearly so much as I do. Which is probably a good thing, because they'd live in a prison compound with guard dogs and spotlights otherwise.

Yep,

 

[BantyChooks]

I hate to say it, because it'll become jinxed, but my coop has had a strange dearth of predators around it. I have a neighbour down the road a ways that had hawk problems so bad he sold out. I have maybe 2--3 attacks every 2 years. Bears targeting coops all around... they rarely come into my yard. I mean, not that that stopped me from freaking out and buying a fence. Bobcats? Again, no issues. Never had one taken by a fox, that I know of, and I've only had problems with mink/weasels twice which is frankly astonishing based off what my coop used to look like. There were 6" gaps in the rafters covered only by a tarp! That was just the beginning of it. I did used to have bad dog problems, but then the problematic neighbour moved. I was thrilled.

Even when I dump dead birds in the back property... I sometimes go check days after and they're still there. It's weird. Having dogs roaming around isn't unique to my house either. Everyone has dogs, and they're all capable of taking down small predators. No lap dogs.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm glad we don't have bears where I am, i wouldn't have any birds....coons are bad enough.

Ooh, nasty. I hope they never find mine.

 

[Kiki]

Ooh! I used to have a male the same color. Not a red range, not a scarlet. Just called him a "german pastel red" I got one chick from him before he died, but she's also blue and I can't tell whether she's carrying the same red underneath it.



I mean, kind of both. "Tuxedo" should really be reserved for birds with a good 50/50 penguin split. I don't have any, but I think @Texas Kiki definitely does if I'm remembering her birds right. Pied is a better descriptor for birds with irregular patches or a color mix tipped heavy to either solid or white. I definitely have a few of those. Sometimes I call them "semi-tuxedo" if all the white feathers are on the breast.

Beautiful birds!!

I offed my two Street Foods.
They were too small for needs.

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• Kiki
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• Kiki
• Sep 22, 2018

 

[Kiki]

Bond, this is the new fencing. It gets closed at night, in the front.
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Have you tested it yet?...Go touch it tonight see how it feels.

 

[Kiki]

I offer my two Street Foods.
They were too small for needs.

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• Kiki
• Sep 22, 2018

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• Kiki
• Sep 22, 2018

We ate these three last week.