Every one of you here are wonderful. I can't help but say praises for all your suggestions. You are an amazing group.
It makes me feel good to be associated with such caring group. I do love the recipes and the suggestions.
Lizzy that was a particularly amazing list.
I've been out working until it got so dark I couldn't see. I got my red star hens caged earlier today. I took down their dog kennel pen and used a couple panels inside my big chicken pen to make a smaller pen. Then when the other birds went to bed I moved the red stars into that pen. I have several birds that sleep in that house so I had to wait for them to go to roost before I could move the red stars in. I will have to keep all of them penned up for a while until they figure out that is where they are supposed to sleep. I am going to have some very upset chickens the next week or so. I can't let any of them out or it will ruin the move. I sure hope they don't quit laying but they probably will.
Then I decided to work on the old garage pen where the owl had visited late last night. I put some footing boards down and started hanging chicken wire to cover the whole length. It is about 20 feet across there. I got it done other than making a door. So I just hung a stretch of chicken wire where the door would be after the chickens went to bed. I had to leave the bottom open because my pekin ducks go in there at night at some point. I'm not sure how I'm going to remedy that cause they go when they feel like it.
While I was doing all my owl proofing and moving I discovered that I am missing a red cochin hen and her little brahma baby she hatched. They had been sleeping under the hen house rather than inside it. I suppose the owl got both of them.
And I also discovered the body of one of my salmon favorelles in the garage pen I was working on and her head a few feet from it. Apparently I scared the owl off right after she ripped the hen's head off. It just makes me furious. I told DH if I could set up a trap with sacrificial chicken out where I could just sit and wait there would be one dead owl for sure.
I depend on my birds for what money I do have and it really infuriates me that this stupid predatory bird is killing them. There are dead bodies in the burn barrel. Why don't they just take those instead??
I have a person coming in about a week to buy my cochins (colors I am not going to breed any more) and I can see the dollars going down the drain due to this stupid predator.
Again, thank you all for being so wonderful and offering what you can to help Amber and her family. You are such an awesome group.
It makes me feel good to be associated with such caring group. I do love the recipes and the suggestions.
Lizzy that was a particularly amazing list.
I've been out working until it got so dark I couldn't see. I got my red star hens caged earlier today. I took down their dog kennel pen and used a couple panels inside my big chicken pen to make a smaller pen. Then when the other birds went to bed I moved the red stars into that pen. I have several birds that sleep in that house so I had to wait for them to go to roost before I could move the red stars in. I will have to keep all of them penned up for a while until they figure out that is where they are supposed to sleep. I am going to have some very upset chickens the next week or so. I can't let any of them out or it will ruin the move. I sure hope they don't quit laying but they probably will.
Then I decided to work on the old garage pen where the owl had visited late last night. I put some footing boards down and started hanging chicken wire to cover the whole length. It is about 20 feet across there. I got it done other than making a door. So I just hung a stretch of chicken wire where the door would be after the chickens went to bed. I had to leave the bottom open because my pekin ducks go in there at night at some point. I'm not sure how I'm going to remedy that cause they go when they feel like it.
While I was doing all my owl proofing and moving I discovered that I am missing a red cochin hen and her little brahma baby she hatched. They had been sleeping under the hen house rather than inside it. I suppose the owl got both of them.
And I also discovered the body of one of my salmon favorelles in the garage pen I was working on and her head a few feet from it. Apparently I scared the owl off right after she ripped the hen's head off. It just makes me furious. I told DH if I could set up a trap with sacrificial chicken out where I could just sit and wait there would be one dead owl for sure.
I depend on my birds for what money I do have and it really infuriates me that this stupid predatory bird is killing them. There are dead bodies in the burn barrel. Why don't they just take those instead??
I have a person coming in about a week to buy my cochins (colors I am not going to breed any more) and I can see the dollars going down the drain due to this stupid predator.
Again, thank you all for being so wonderful and offering what you can to help Amber and her family. You are such an awesome group.
