calling any one from missouri

[alldembirds]

Taum Sauk mountain is more of a high wooded knoll. I never saw evidence of a crater and there probably isn't one. Even though it's the highest point in Missouri you would never know it by the terrain. There are a lot more impressive peaks in MO albeit lower in elevation.
The same can be said of the continental divide in Wyoming. I envisioned a very mountainous area. It's just a very high plain. Kind of like 'High Plains Drifter' country. Nary a mountain in sight.

It looks neat to me at least all the pictures after the reservoir failure a couple years ago look neat. I dodnt expect it to have big peaks I know the ozarks are super old and flat. I prefer rolling mountains to jagged peaks. The rest of my family is from west virginia and kentucky, the rolling hills are like home.

 

[Athena116699]

Thank you, is that kansas, or just kc mo? or just just your area? I want to visit my daughter sometimes and she is in Kansas, kcks, and I thought of getting a coop tractor so I can take my ladies with me...I only have 6 (as of now lol).

 

[Sylviaanne]

With any luck, it will be months before another critter finds your coop & chickens.

CG

Yeah, but you know what? If I let them sleep with the door open, it would be just my luck that the coon would have a mate and that they were taking nightly turns at killing my chickens and whoever is left would slip into my coop and have a heyday killing every one they could get their claws into. I'd love to leave the door open so they can sleep in the run but they don't know how much safer they are locked up in the coop.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It looks neat to me at least all the pictures after the reservoir failure a couple years ago look neat. I dodnt expect it to have big peaks I know the ozarks are super old and flat. I prefer rolling mountains to jagged peaks. The rest of my family is from west virginia and kentucky, the rolling hills are like home.

The reservoir failure has changed the landscape of the valley There are huge boulders scattered across what used to be fields.

 

[CGinJCMO]

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I'm not suggesting you leave the door open. I'm learly of automatic doors because of the potential for one hen to get left out at night. I don't even leave the gate to the pen open overnight. If a coon wants my chickens, he's going to have to work for it by climbing over the fence before he can attempt to figure out how to get into the coop.

CG

 

[Sylviaanne]

I'm not suggesting you leave the door open. I'm learly of automatic doors because of the potential for one hen to get left out at night. I don't even leave the gate to the pen open overnight. If a coon wants my chickens, he's going to have to work for it by climbing over the fence before he can attempt to figure out how to get into the coop.

CG

Oh, no, I didn't mean that I felt you had suggested that. It's just we were letting them sleep in the run if they wanted to and when that raccoon started making nightly visits, we had to lock them up and they don't care for it. Of course they don't understand that if a predator gets in the run and they go into the coop, the critter will be right behind them and then they will be trapped.

The same for our set up. He will have to climb the fence to even get to the chicken door. The people door has a handle that turns half way and latches the door closed but if a coon managed to get that open there would be a big door way for the chickens to escape through, they would not all be trapped.

 

[Melinda48]

We use a hasp with a carabiner. No one but a human can get it open! Cheap, easy, effective!

 

[Melinda48]

Our girls go in by themselves around dusk. We ditty bop on out and lock them up. We also have secured hardware cloth everywhere there is any sort of possible opening that a critter could use to get in.

 

[mkeawsh]

Our girls go in by themselves around dusk. We ditty bop on out and lock them up. We also have secured hardware cloth everywhere there is any sort of possible opening that a critter could use to get in.

Basically that is our set up. My 70+ go either in the coop or one of the tractors that is attached. I usually go a out a little before dusk to close all but two of the doors and then when it is almost dark, go close the last two. By that time the light that is on a timer has about 15 minutes to go before it goes off.

 

[DEBUS CHICKS]

Hi just moved to my home here in MO...and really need some friends...I'm from KCKS and love my little farm. New to chickens, just got my first flock and love them so very much. So anyone around Amsterdam MO??

I lived in Kansas City, KS most of my life, I have lived in Missouri for 10 years. Lawson/Excelsior Springs area I like Missouri better. I went to Piper High School class of 79 where did you live?