BYC Café

[pennyJo1960]

@Perris, I am so sorry .. Horibble just awful.. I hope your hunter can remove the predator

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe fresh pot here and in club this morning

 

[bruceha2000]

What you need is a bit of gelignite.

I could use a bunch of that, lots of rock and ledge. Well, I couldn't actually USE it, that would be illegal but it sure would be helpful.

I still have to have it hit the walls at just the right height. And my laser would have to be moved to the other side of the room and releveled to the first section. I'm going to just have to use a 4' level and do my best.

I guess I'd have to see it. The one I have is pretty basic, it has a base with 3 adjustable bolts to level it in both directions. Seems like I could get a level line on one wall then move the laser to get the adjoining walls and HOPEFULLY connecting the ends of those lines on the 4th wall would make a level line. But having never done it, I have no idea.

quite a lot of things that were common when we were young are not now, most of them effective but dangerous

Yeah like see saws (AKA teeter totters) and lawn darts. The darts we had when I was a kid had long pointed metal ends. Stuck nicely into the ground. Now they have round weighed "tips". I guess they are like Weebles, they wobble but they don't fall down.

Just had a fox attack here.

And to have the damn thing come back and make another go for Sven so soon.

Pretty standard, the fox that took Yuki behind the barn last May came back the next afternoon and the only thing the saved the hens was me just happening to come out of the barn as the fox ran around the fence corner with several hens running in front of it. I didn't let the girls out of the barn again until the 160' Premier 1 electro net came a few days later and didn't let them out of that until the entire perimeter fence was covered with 2x4 knotted wire fencing. Turns out a fox can get through a 6" opening. If the fox wants to come in now it will have to climb 4' of fence then get its nose fried on the hotwire that runs just over the top of the knotted fence.

and will stand guard at dusk.

And before. When the fox came back it was well before dusk. Just like when the raccoon came back HOURS before sundown. So much for coons and foxes hunting at night.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah, when foxes have kits to feed they hunt at any time.

 

[sourland]

Just finished mowing the back lawn. Needed a boost so brewed a fresh pot - have at it in good spirit.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Have a nice fire going in the trash burner .. toasty warm 72 is perfect here

 

[CapricornFarm]

Have a nice fire going in the trash burner .. toasty warm 72 is perfect here

It's 90° outside here!

 

[ronott1]

Just had a fox attack here. Sven (my avatar) is missing and a few of his feathers appear to indicate his last position. Aneka, my broody welsummer pullet, is missing without trace. Obelix, my Barbezieux cockerel just turned 8 months old, is mortally wounded. The rest are badly shaken: a first time for them all. I need to alert the local hunter to try to get him before any more are taken.

I am so sorry!

You will likely keep them locked in a predator proof coop or run until the fox is taken care of?

 

[ronott1]

I don't know; he's wrapped in a towel in a veg crate by the front door, and he's still with us at the moment. Better news was that at 8, while I was prowling the boundaries to try to reassure the rest, Sven leaped over the field wall opposite our drive, with fox biting at his rear end, and headed straight for me. Fox ran off down the lane. Sven, old warhorse, headed for his favorite roost in the parrotia persica, and is recovering there. He looks to be in a dreadful state featherwise, but has no obvious bleeding. Still no sign of Aneka, and I think she's gone. I'm keeping her eggs (her own, 2 of them, due to hatch a week today) warm until the other broody gets off this pm, then I'll slip them in there. I do hope they hatch, so she can live on. The hunter is coming this pm.

That is good news!

 

[pennyJo1960]

It is great you did find your Bo Sven feathers grow back