Hi guys!! Hope everyone is well! I think its been like 6 months since I've been here. So busy! We have a fox and a bobcat that have wiped out half my chicken flock the past several months. Took my Black Betty and all but 2 of my Buff Orps. Took out our banty roo, Foghorn who died protecting his ladies. ALL my silkies gone. 1 sizzle left. A few others killed along the way. My only Cream Legbar pullet who had hit the POL- fox took her last week. Very heartbreaking. We bought a huge $200 live trap and baiting it with live bantam roosters currently. So far we keep catching our own chickens haha!
I hatched 2 sizzle x cream legbars NYD. I only have CL roos and they cover my remaining girls. Last night I hatched a small batch of EEs I made. A Naked Neck, Leghorn and a dark dark brown egg laying EE- with cute results. Puffy Leghorn looking chicks (hoping for super blue egg layers), NN egger (so cute with her naked neck) and some more Dumpling chicks. I have a hen we call Dumpling. She is an EE but lays these gorgeous warm dark brown eggs with espresso color speckles. I hoard her eggs and hatch them when I have about 6 built up. I have one pullet from her already and she look a lot like a CL pullet with less colors. I'm hoping for olive eggs from her.
I sincerely hope no one else is having the predator issues we are having!
hope you catch the fox and bobcat soon.
