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

[Kiki]

They look like this:

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Wow! Thanks for looking that up!
That's is one thing I LOVE about technology. When I was a kid whenever we'd ask a question my mom would tell us to "go look it up" which meant in the set of encyclopedias on a shelf in the corner of our dining room/dads office/ mom's sewing room/ironing room. Lol. (Row house people)
If what we wanted to know wasn't in that set, well!... it might have been as if it had never been discovered and recorded.
I love being able to go down the rabbit hole of knowledge whenever I "look something up" now although sometimes my "research" makes dinner late!
Thank you thank you! @Suzi18

I research ALL THE TIME.... and will lose hours easily..... yeesh! But, I try to learn something new every day... keeps my old mind sharp as a cotton ball!!!!

Thanks for the alfalfa advice @Smuvers Farm ! My bratty cochin teens can be annoyingly picky sometimes. So I am trying various new treat stuff now before my yard totally dies. They really liked chopped alfalfa (or at least I assume they did. Lotsa green poop in my poop trays!)
I'm trying the alfalfa pellets next (cause they were cheap) but wasn't sure if you are supposed to prepare them somehow first. Good to know I probably can't screw this up!!!

View attachment 1183645 View attachment 1183646 Smuvs. We did pallets a few years ago. *important note. All pallets are marked. There is a guide to symbols available online.
You CANNOT use the pressure treated ones to grow food in. It's poisonous. After one season they started to rot.
Second season they got termites.

My half barrels are the really tough one they make for gardening. Some kind of thick plastic.
The real wooden ones like they use at a winery are to cost prohibitive for me.

View attachment 1183652 Found this from way in my phone

pallets marked HT is heat treated and good to use

DH can get a plethora of HT pallets from post, so no worries. We've used pallets many MANY times before, so very knowledgeable about what can and can't be used.... thanks for letting me know though!

1430 and we are DONE for the day. Handy panels will not make a very good hoop coop, as they won't *hoop*. But, we're gonna try them for something else....

Here's the pic of our brooder...... the food dish will go on top of the SPIRIT rock and the water bottle will hang in the upper left hand corner. The MHP tunnel is put right in the middle, so they can escape from either side.

 

[staceyj]

I research ALL THE TIME.... and will lose hours easily..... yeesh! But, I try to learn something new every day... keeps my old mind sharp as a cotton ball!!!!











DH can get a plethora of HT pallets from post, so no worries. We've used pallets many MANY times before, so very knowledgeable about what can and can't be used.... thanks for letting me know though!

1430 and we are DONE for the day. Handy panels will not make a very good hoop coop, as they won't *hoop*. But, we're gonna try them for something else....

Here's the pic of our brooder...... the food dish will go on top of the SPIRIT rock and the water bottle will hang in the upper left hand corner. The MHP tunnel is put right in the middle, so they can escape from either side.

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You are ready. I'm really excited to see you little bits.

 

[Smuvers Farm]

You are ready. I'm really excited to see you little bits.

We're gonna bring the Nuggets inside this weekend and band them and get some good pics of them, the pics will be posted in the Xena thread.

When the eggs go into lock down, we're gonna move it into our bedroom, next to my bed. I'll barely sleep, listening for peeps in the middle of the night!

 

[staceyj]

We're gonna bring the Nuggets inside this weekend and band them and get some good pics of them, the pics will be posted in the Xena thread.

When the eggs go into lock down, we're gonna move it into our bedroom, next to my bed. I'll barely sleep, listening for peeps in the middle of the night!

 

[CSAchook]

We're gonna bring the Nuggets inside this weekend and band them and get some good pics of them, the pics will be posted in the Xena thread.

When the eggs go into lock down, we're gonna move it into our bedroom, next to my bed. I'll barely sleep, listening for peeps in the middle of the night!

I confess that it was only this year that I learned chicks can peep when they are still in the egg... I want to hatch eggs now and hear it for myself!!!! Will have to see what next year brings....

Congrats Smuv! Very exciting!

 

[rjohns39]

Does anyone know if red tail hawks migrate? At dusk tonight my sky looked like a scene out of "the birds".... And they were all thinking about a chicken dinner. My presence with a stoeger was enough to convince them to leave, that and the turkeys. I told DS that we had at least 50 and his answer was more like three times that. He was in the pasture when they showed up.

 

[Molpet]

Does anyone know if red tail hawks migrate? At dusk tonight my sky looked like a scene out of "the birds".... And they were all thinking about a chicken dinner. My presence with a stoeger was enough to convince them to leave, that and the turkeys. I told DS that we had at least 50 and his answer was more like three times that. He was in the pasture when they showed up.

yes they do... but mine will go down to you and ones from the north might stay by me

 

[CSAchook]

Does anyone know if red tail hawks migrate? At dusk tonight my sky looked like a scene out of "the birds".... And they were all thinking about a chicken dinner. My presence with a stoeger was enough to convince them to leave, that and the turkeys. I told DS that we had at least 50 and his answer was more like three times that. He was in the pasture when they showed up.

According to this website http://animaldiversity.org (it is one I use all the time for research at school) some populations do migrate. Sounds like a chicken keepers worst nightmare! Glad to hear you didn't lose any!

 

[rjohns39]

I"m not sure if was human presence or turkeys that sent them packing... but it was scary.