BYC Café

[DobieLover]

I guess you don't listen to the radio either? No TV here but I listen to NPR.

Nope. Just on the drive to and from work but then I want music, not news.

 

[drumstick diva]

When I want music I head for the three threads on BYC and cavemanrich usually has some new treats for me to listen too. He knows what I like.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have what they call oldies or country playing on the boob tube here .. I will watch an hour of news when I get up drink my first cup, then turn it to music the rest of the day .. I am pretty open to anything but Rap .. BF and I kinda think the same in music Son is the same

 

[Shadrach]

I've been out with the chickens most of the day trying to get a bed ready for planting and cutting back some of the vegetation down the bank in front of my house.
I'm a bit stuck on how to keep the chickens off the patch on the edge of my roof.

It's on their travel from coop to my place route.
Young Rivit got attacked by a Goshawk this afternoon. She did well and just got to some stock net fencing before the hawk struck. Just getting next to the fencing is often enough to frustrate an attack and she got away with a small talon puncture wound and some feathers ripped out. The Goshawk was standing on the fence when I got there and flew off down the valley on my arrival. Rivit is going to be fine. She's a bit shaken up but when I looked in on Tribe 2 earlier she was tucked up between Punch and Mag on the perch and hardly murmured when I applied another dose of chlorhexidine to her puncture wound.
Terrible though this may sound that's 4 strikes so far this year and not one chicken badly injured.

 

[ronott1]

I've been out with the chickens most of the day trying to get a bed ready for planting and cutting back some of the vegetation down the bank in front of my house.
I'm a bit stuck on how to keep the chickens off the patch on the edge of my roof.View attachment 2111061 It's on their travel from coop to my place route.
Young Rivit got attacked by a Goshawk this afternoon. She did well and just got to some stock net fencing before the hawk struck. Just getting next to the fencing is often enough to frustrate an attack and she got away with a small talon puncture wound and some feathers ripped out. The Goshawk was standing on the fence when I got there and flew off down the valley on my arrival. Rivit is going to be fine. She's a bit shaken up but when I looked in on Tribe 2 earlier she was tucked up between Punch and Mag on the perch and hardly murmured when I applied another dose of chlorhexidine to her puncture wound.
Terrible though this may sound that's 4 strikes so far this year and not one chicken badly injured.

Will you cover the the route with some netting?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wow Shad glad she had some where to duck the bird that
would be tough

 

[drumstick diva]

hope the number of raptor attempts drops to 0 for your flock Shad.

 

[Shadrach]

Will you cover the the route with some netting?

I'll probably bend some supported mesh fencing over the trench for long enough to get the plants established; that's assuming they grow at all. I haven't done much planting from seed. I usually put in started plants.

 

[Shadrach]

hope the number of raptor attempts drops to 0 for your flock Shad.

I doubt it ever will DD. What I hoped and what seems to be happening is as each generation arrives they get smarter at avoiding the hawks.
The people who have Black Minorcans here hardly lose any to hawks. There are some other breeds that are very hawk wise.

 

[ronott1]

I'll probably bend some supported mesh fencing over the trench for long enough to get the plants established; that's assuming they grow at all. I haven't done much planting from seed. I usually put in started plants.

That should help!

I hope the seeds start for you.