Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[Nardo]

What's up with the hen? Hurry. I'm at work and can't look much. LOL

 

[Redhead Rae]

Note: These bantams are not from the same neighbor that I suspect the Squatches may have come from. I have 2 prepper neighbors that raise bantams.

You'd think they would raise bigger birds if they are preppers. I'm kinda-sorta prepping and I'm trying to get the biggest birds I can in the shortest time without resorting to cornish X.

 

[theuglychick]

Thank you! I adore them. I had really never had bantams before and I'm ashamed to say that I didn't understand the appeal. I was even a little perturbed when my neighbor brought them over, but as soon as I looked in the crate I fell in love with them!

I got right to work trying to fix them up. They came from a really bad feather picking situation, so I'm monitoring that.

Otherwise they are thriving.

Awwww they're so cute.

And you're right! I offered the preppers some of my big dual purpose basque hens, but neither wanted them. They acted like I was offering them the plague, lol. I guess they just really love their bantams.

You'd think they would raise bigger birds if they are preppers. I'm kinda-sorta prepping and I'm trying to get the biggest birds I can in the shortest time without resorting to cornish X.

 

[Redhead Rae]

And you're right! I offered the preppers some of my big dual purpose basque hens, but neither wanted them. They acted like I was offering them the plague, lol. I guess they just really love their bantams.

Some people are just weird I guess, but who am I to talk. I got Delaware and New Hampshire chicks this year so I can raise Indian River broilers for next year. I'll be doing the sex linked cross first though. I want to start selling eggs and I want to raise the pullets with the flock for egg laying and the cockerels separately as broilers

 

[theuglychick]

Here's what I think could be going on with the hen...

I think she COULD be sitting on eggs.

She also has ZERO interest in human contact or contact with other chickens. Unlike Squatch who couldn't resist strutting out of the wood line when I lured my birds to his location.

This sort of confirms to me that she could be sitting.

I'm worried she could be sitting on old eggs I threw away out there during deworming, as there are none around. I threw dozens out there. Granted, dogs and other animals probably ate them, but still.

I'm going to go look around out there again this evening, this time for a nest or a sitting hen.

My question is, for those of you who've found hidden nests, where do they make them when they're not in a coop?

We have tons of felled trees, logs, brush, vines.

Do they get under logs? Just anywhere on the ground? Ideas of where to look needed!

OK....I'm at work at have this pulled up on my computer so I can watch for updates.

 

[John Sanders]

 

[Parront]

Here's what I think could be going on with the hen...

I think she COULD be sitting on eggs.

She also has ZERO interest in human contact or contact with other chickens. Unlike Squatch who couldn't resist strutting out of the wood line when I lured my birds to his location.

This sort of confirms to me that she could be sitting.

I'm worried she could be sitting on old eggs I threw away out there during deworming, as there are none around. I threw dozens out there. Granted, dogs and other animals probably ate them, but still.

I'm going to go look around out there again this evening, this time for a nest or a sitting hen.

My question is, for those of you who've found hidden nests, where do they make them when they're not in a coop?

We have tons of felled trees, logs, brush, vines.

Do they get under logs? Just anywhere on the ground? Ideas of where to look needed!

They like brush. Under low hanging branches in the dead leaves of my Oleander hedge is where I always found mine hiding!

 

[staceyj]

Hey John. Glad you could join us.

 

[Anansi]

 

[staceyj]

Came in to check on you guys!
Nuthin?!?
Where is that girl hiding?
Mine like to dig a depression at the base of a bush.
Can't notice them unless you squat down to look and by then they jump up and evacuate the premises anyway.
@theuglychick , but if your going to be poking around under bushes, take a broom out there in the wilds would you? I'm worried about snakes and spiders
And poison ivy and bears...
Sheesh! I'm spooking myself and it's BROAD daylight!