BYC Café

[DobieLover]

Coffee is ready.

 

[RoyalChick]

When I pulled into my driveway after work today I saw a hawk sitting on one of my chickens in the upper left corner of my run. I turned off the car and ran out after it and it flew away. It was Jody. My little d'Uccle bantam. Her head was gone and all of the muscle along her neck. The hawk was working on her back. Her body was still warm.

HTG was there working on the ditch and he said that when he pulled in about 20 minutes before me he saw the hawk attack her by the large shrub at the end of the run. He said he chased it off about six times but it kept coming back, grabbed her body and flew to the other side of the run with it just before I got there.

I was a bit traumatized by finding her like that but immediately went into confinement mode for the rest of the flock. Five or six of Savannah's and Astrid's kids were tucked under a perennial grass as tight as they could get and weren't moving at all. They didn't respond at all when I ran by them. When I went up and grabbed the first one she started shrieking but I carried her into the run and threw her in. Then I got the scratch bucket and kept throwing it into the run to try to encourage everyone that was hiding to come into the run. It took HTG and I about 10 minutes to round everybody up.

I did headcount and I was down 2 birds, not 1. Tink, my Sebright, was missing. We continued searching the run for her but to no avail. HTG had to leave. I went back out after feeding the dogs and there she was frantically pacing back and forth in front of the door trying to get back in.

Everybody will remain on lockdown for at least a week until this juvenile red tail hawk moves on.

Jody with the one and only chick she ever hatched and raised.
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Ugh. So sorry.

 

[Sally PB]

Fly high and free, beautiful, lovely, beloved Jody.

Hugs for you, DL.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Thanks for the coffee, DL!
Hugs to you...

So the power went out again all evening until early morning. It was breezy but nothing to be without power for. No idea.
This had better not be air flow related or it will be a long Winder Season!

Yes, the moose attack was dog related or at least she had one off leash with her. We have wolves now and the moose aren't asking questions first!

DS$ won his match last night.
Step by step.
Enjoy the day, Cafe!

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe', and thanks for the coffee.

 

[SkyAJK]

When I pulled into my driveway after work today I saw a hawk sitting on one of my chickens in the upper left corner of my run. I turned off the car and ran out after it and it flew away. It was Jody. My little d'Uccle bantam. Her head was gone and all of the muscle along her neck. The hawk was working on her back. Her body was still warm.

HTG was there working on the ditch and he said that when he pulled in about 20 minutes before me he saw the hawk attack her by the large shrub at the end of the run. He said he chased it off about six times but it kept coming back, grabbed her body and flew to the other side of the run with it just before I got there.

I was a bit traumatized by finding her like that but immediately went into confinement mode for the rest of the flock. Five or six of Savannah's and Astrid's kids were tucked under a perennial grass as tight as they could get and weren't moving at all. They didn't respond at all when I ran by them. When I went up and grabbed the first one she started shrieking but I carried her into the run and threw her in. Then I got the scratch bucket and kept throwing it into the run to try to encourage everyone that was hiding to come into the run. It took HTG and I about 10 minutes to round everybody up.

I did headcount and I was down 2 birds, not 1. Tink, my Sebright, was missing. We continued searching the run for her but to no avail. HTG had to leave. I went back out after feeding the dogs and there she was frantically pacing back and forth in front of the door trying to get back in.

Everybody will remain on lockdown for at least a week until this juvenile red tail hawk moves on.

Jody with the one and only chick she ever hatched and raised.
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I am so sorry that happened to your beautiful Jody.

 

[SkyAJK]

Good Morning

Tea is in the making... It is 3:05am, I would sleep if I can, but the body just not let me.

I have been summon to do citizen duty and the long sitting is causing me back discomfort, neck and shoulders pain. One of my chickens poops a long gold colour looking worm, and a gold colour looking lash egg. I am not home to work out whoduneit. Egg production from 7/8 a day to just 1/2. What is going on?

I do admit that being out of the house into the world with everyone else making me feel I need to buy new clothes, lose some weight, and nobody in my duty group have chickens, somehow that is a change of environment for me. I don't see poops, looking at vents, having dogs hair on me all day long. The bonus is also the tuna sushi tastes so much better in the city, people are looking so beautifully dress. The downside is I barely have energy for dinner, home and get my chickens ready for bed and I fall in deep sleep until the next morning. Now is the weekend and my body refuses to sleep, aren't that annoying.

Have a great day all

 

[SkyAJK]

@DobieLover on the news over here yesterday it says that Viet Nam is flooding, just thought you might like to know as you will be traveling to Asia.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Hey Good Morning Cafe.
Drizzle is falling.

 

[DobieLover]

@DobieLover on the news over here yesterday it says that Viet Nam is flooding, just thought you might like to know as you will be traveling to Asia.

I know! The friend that is coming with me keeps sending me these horrible videos. We've decided that we're not going to visit Vietnam on our trip and just stick to Thailand and Laos.