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

[Tesumph]

Your snake and my weasel should fight to the death! I hope they both lose!

Ok, I feel I can safely lock the birds in their houses for the night, but scared about daytime. I'm not copping them 24/7. Do weasels hunt in daytime? I really didn't think they lived here! What do they normally eat beside pet chickens?

Sorry. I can’t even think straight.

Weasels are nocturnal or diurnal depending on the time of year (diurnal in summer). They can hunt anything as big as a rabbit (see previous video) but are also built to travel through mice and other rodent burrows.

 

[PirateGirl]

Sorry. I can’t even think straight.

Weasels are nocturnal or diurnal depending on the time of year (diurnal in summer). They can hunt anything as big as a rabbit (see precious video) but are also built to travel through mice and other rodent burrows.

There are so many prairie dog tunnels for their use. I like to think the big ducks are safe, because this thing was so little, but now I'm super paranoid because surely there is a weasel population of sorts in the area that I never accounted for!

I'm glad your littles are safe and accounted for!

 

[Molpet]

I will buy this tomorrow for the mites. Any ranch store? Just follow directions on the bottle? How often should I spray things down? What about the run?



The one I saw was really small, maybe 6 inches long. Can even the tiny ones kill full grown chickens and ducks?

I'm sure it could get in the run without a problem, all kinds of birds and rodents find their way in. The chicken coop and duck house I think I may just have to cover a few vents better.

On hand my options are plastic hex garden netting/fencing and an old window screen and I can lock everyone up for the night.

When I left to walk the wild dog I left husband in the yard with the pellet gun, the other dog, and the outside cat.

Your snake and my weasel should fight to the death! I hope they both lose!

Ok, I feel I can safely lock the birds in their houses for the night, but scared about daytime. I'm not copping them 24/7. Do weasels hunt in daytime? I really didn't think they lived here! What do they normally eat beside pet chickens?

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Weasels can get through a hole larger than 1/2 inch.... 1/2" hardware cloth works. The one I took the avatar pic of was out during the day... They hunt rodents mainly , they follow the tunnels into coops, but go for any opportunity... If the birds can get away, they have a chance. I have poultry yards that are 70' x 70 and 50'x50

 

[Kiki]

Mom and little brother started pounding on our door. The Ginger jumped up and I heard “SNAKE IN THE COOP” and he was gone. I’m not supposed to get up but momma bear adrenaline hit.
Mom was showing brother the babies since I’ve been too sick to go outside. She didn’t even see the snake curled around their feeder, my brother was like “um.. is that snake meant to be in there?”

The Ginger lobbed it’s head off while I frantically counted and recounted and kissed them all and tried not to cry like an idiot. Wrong time of the month for this s**t.
They were all screaming and unsettled so I tucked them under their bear after kisses (I was freaking out, okay) and they relaxed.

There was two SMALL gaps in the hardware cloth on either side of the longest back vent where the roll wasn’t long enough. One was 1x2 inches, the other was about 0.5x4 inches. I was going to stuff a shirt in them next time I went out but I thought NO WAY would a snake find that tiny gap that far off the ground. I feel so damn stupid.
If it didn’t get in there then it would have squeezed through a cloth part much lower down that wasn’t a gap, but wasn’t totally flush against the wall. It would have had to push the wire quite a bit.
We screwed patches over the gaps and tightened the loose bit. I do not see any way a snake could get in now, period. I’m terrified that I’m wrong.

 

[Kiki]

Your snake and my weasel should fight to the death! I hope they both lose!

Ok, I feel I can safely lock the birds in their houses for the night, but scared about daytime. I'm not copping them 24/7. Do weasels hunt in daytime? I really didn't think they lived here! What do they normally eat beside pet chickens?

I don't know a thing about a weasel. I'm sorry.

 

[PirateGirl]

There are lots of voles and prairie dogs, I guess that's what they normally go for.

 

[PirateGirl]

@KikisGirls all I know about them is horror stories from BYC of them killing whole flocks and not eating most of them!

 

[Kiki]

@KikisGirls all I know about them is horror stories from BYC of them killing whole flocks and not eating most of them!

Hardware cloth asap.

 

[The Beeps Mama]

Impressive?
It is INSANE!
She @The Beeps Mama needs a prize!

I got sucked in, lol. I love the random subject changes and I learned a lot too!

 

[The Beeps Mama]

Yes. Yes she does. You should hatch her some ducks as a reward

I was just talking to da boyfriend about hatching some eggs, I received a firm no! He’s no fun, although the delivery of my 3 ducklings might have something to do with it!