➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

A young raccoon or an opossum is my guess. They managed to grab the wing and blindly pulled without thinking too much about it. Probably got interrupted before it could finish.
She said it wasn't very stiff so it would've been within a couple hours of finding it.
Besides hawks, raccoon, and opossum eating a bird thru a fence, we should also consider the skunk as a predator that does the same thing. A skunk does eat the flesh, drinks the blood and often crushes the head to consume the brain....per my experience with skunks. Does the weasel do the same?
 
Huh, fascinating. Thanks. We have tons of hawks/birds of prey here too but I really don’t know what kind. I know we for sure have red tails and ospreys as well as great horned and barred owls and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a peregrine falcon once but idk. Could have been a goshawk. I’m pretty sure we have coopers hawks too. And I know we have kestrels in the region but not on our property. I have heard that hawks don’t hunt in woods or don’t fly well in them but I don’t think that’s true because I have seen one chase a bird through the woods as well as seen them tilt up and maneuver through the pine trees.

But yeah, I’m not gonna drive myself crazy trying to figure out exactly what it was but that is good to know because I thought securing the top was the most important thing with hawks and that that was enough.

I will be putting hardware cloth around the entire thing now though and all of the chickens are locked securely inside the coop for the night including the big girls just to be on the safe side. Will let them out in the morning but not too early.
Where did you get the hardware cloth from?
 
If I read my phone or look at my phone before I go to bed, I instantly wake up.

I'm really liking my new Kindle Paperwhite. It's not like a tablet like the Kindle fire that I had so the lighting on it is so much better. It's like I'm reading a book and I fall asleep so much easier now.
I like the paper white too, but it doesn’t put me to sleep. If I can’t sleep I take a couple ibuprofen. I don’t know whether they make me sleepy or if its not really pain that I don’t notice (from being old) that’s keeping me awake. 🤷‍♀️😴
 
Aww that sucks! What’s wrong with it?
It's a golden comet and I think it's just reached the end of its life. I offered to give her either spook or Wednesday, the two white chicks that I kept from my Halloween hatch. They are almost at point of lay I think. Their combs are starting to get red not cockerel red, but you know what I mean. They're 12 weeks. I think they'll lay almost exactly at 16 weeks.
 
I’ve tried that and then I’m just bored or can’t sleep or whatever. :lau

I think I need to come up with a routine or whatever. Maybe if I did that stuff every night I’d be able to sleep haha

I definitely need to start putting the phone down in the mornings though. Or rather, not picking it up.
If you work all day, you will sleep well all night.
 

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