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I ended up leaving the flock locked in the run this morning. None of them were down from the roosts when I went out to feed them. I could hear chattering coming from the woods behind the run. It sounded like a raccoon to me. So I kept watching and lo and behold a baby raccoon climbed up a small tree and got on top of one of the box trucks that's stored out there. It sounded very distressed so I think it's either lost its mother or is just lost in general. It was only about 30 or 40 ft from the corner of the run. I know I've got the electric fence but why take chances when I don't have to.
My only real concern is that The Fab 4 are now forced to enter into the flock to get food and water. When I was walking back from doing a fence check, one of them was sitting in the food bowl. And the other three were running around with their necks extended to max and getting the heck out of the way of any bird that came remotely close to them. So I think they're going to do just fine. Everybody is ignoring them.
 
Lots of wildlife encounters for me today! When I left to go run the dogs I could see a deer across the road on the widow's property. And then I saw a fawn pop out from the woods behind her. Oh how cute! Then I saw a second fawn pop out from the woods behind her! They started to cross the road. Heading straight towards my electric fence. Mom just stood there, still in the lawn, watching her fawns cross the road. One of them got to within two feet of the electric fence. That is when I decided to intervene and scare the snot out of them so they turned around and ran back into the woods after their mother. I cannot handle another horrible incident with a deer in my fence.
Then once I got down to the fields to run the dogs where the grass is armpit high, I could see the ears of a doe in the deep grass. She was just walking along and had not noticed me or the dogs. So I started yelling and clapping my hands overhead as we started to walk forward because I know that particular doe also has a fawn.
 
DobieLover said:
Lots of wildlife encounters for me today! When I left to go run the dogs I could see a deer across the road on the widow's property. And then I saw a fawn pop out from the woods behind her. Oh how cute! Then I saw a second fawn pop out from the woods behind her! They started to cross the road. Heading straight towards my electric fence. Mom just stood there, still in the lawn, watching her fawns cross the road. One of them got to within two feet of the electric fence. That is when I decided to intervene and scare the snot out of them so they turned around and ran back into the woods after their mother. I cannot handle another horrible incident with a deer in my fence.
Then once I got down to the fields to run the dogs where the grass is armpit high, I could see the ears of a doe in the deep grass. She was just walking along and had not noticed me or the dogs. So I started yelling and clapping my hands overhead as we started to walk forward because I know that particular doe also has a fawn.
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As read your post, I imagine the scenery of your property, tall grasses, doe and fawn so nice living with nature.....the Disney bambi scenes come to mind. I am romanticizing nature.😄

I think it is so magical to see wild life, and there are danger to that as well. Over here sometime I go for a walk and saw a kangaroo wildly run off the road and constantly falling on the pavement because of slipper of the cement pavement. It got out from the nearby bush land.
 
Good Morning

Having my nice hot cup of coffee now. We are having some drops of water from the sky, so many drops that the ground is muddy and soggy. The weather report people say that it has 20% chance of rain today, and I say they are 100% of being so very wrong😄

My chickens had done with mixing up my garden bed and I was going to put some winter vegs seeds in it, but it has been raining on/off these last few days I can not, but in that bed something growing..

My chickens are back to laying normal eggs again, the no shell eggs stopped. What a relief! but we are not out of the wood yet

Coffee tastes so good in cold weather, it warms up the system and alert the brain.

Have a great day and enjoy your sunshine....

I am still looking for the sun here..Wherefore art thou sunshine?😄
 

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