Cornish Thread

[big medicine]

Took some pictures of the travel crate I mentioned earlier. I have to look up in Dad's barn for another old one I have picked up. That one has compartments for feed/water outside the main compatments but still accessable to the birds, keeping them cleaner.

 

[Cedarknob]

Took some pictures of the travel crate I mentioned earlier. I have to look up in Dad's barn for another old one I have picked up. That one has compartments for feed/water outside the main compatments but still accessable to the birds, keeping them cleaner.

Thanks for the picture. I probably will not have a use for a transport crate for awhile. I had over 50 chicks in a grow out pen, including all but the Cornish hatched in the past two weeks. I went out to feed a minute ago, and discovered three holes dug into their pen, only two left alive, and only three left that were dead. My dogs never made a sound last night. I'm pretty down about it.

 

[fowlman01]

Thanks for the picture. I probably will not have a use for a transport crate for awhile. I had over 50 chicks in a grow out pen, including all but the Cornish hatched in the past two weeks. I went out to feed a minute ago, and discovered three holes dug into their pen, only two left alive, and only three left that were dead. My dogs never made a sound last night. I'm pretty down about it.

Sorry to hear that!

Walt

 

[big medicine]

Aw man.

I have to keep my dogs out during the day to keep the coyotes from coming right up near the house and grabbing birds. Pretty secure once they are in for the night(knock on wood). Any hair on the wire ?

 

[Cedarknob]

Thank you Walt.

No Big M, not a sign anywhere of hair on the wire, or a track left in the diggings. It is my fault for setting the pen in the grass. I set a live trap out next to the pen when I set it up, knowing there have to be coons around, and I killed a feral cat hanging around the brooder building, but doubted it could get to my chicks anyway. I doubt that either of them could carry off around 50 chicks, all three weeks and up, anyway. Two live chicks came out of hiding, but most are gone completely. I had put the pen on mowed lawn, and there's not too many places where anything dead or alive can't be seen during the day, so the rest of them must be history.

I still have 60 left in brooders, but many are crosses. I had a poor hatch after finding a rotten egg in the incubator awhile back, and two exploded in this weekend's batch, so only a few hatched. I've done two quick wipe downs with Oxine, but need to shut it down and disinfect it completely. I still have over 100 eggs in there though, so can only hope to get by with what I could clean with it running. I guess I'm done whining now, LOL

I expected my white cock to be dead, and put off checking on him for a long while today. He's not doing great, but has eaten a bit of feed and hopefully drank some medicated water. He has a chick found in the grow out pen with its scalp tore open for company now. I better get off here and go move the rest left in the pen.

 

[galanie]

Removed because it was redundant.

 

[Cedarknob]

I guess I know where the wad of nearly digested birds and a mouse came from, and looks like these two are making more mousers for me. I'll have to keep my brooders snake proof.

 

[OHmamma]

HOLY MOLY!!!

What kind of Snakes Are They?!?!?!

They look HUGE!!

 

[chickened]

They look like our bull snakes... harmless to people.

 

[Whittni]

Shivers.