Cream Legbars

[normanack]

Argh! I'm so sorry! Next time consider asking the seller to write "LIVE EMBRYOS" on the box. You wouldn't believe how much more careful my post office was when they got that one.

 

[DeltaBluezTess]

it did have "Live Embryos" on it as well......the good thing was each eggs was wrapped well in bubble wrap so the only one that got cracks were the ones near the corner....needless to say, the five day transport did NOT help and when I picked up the eggs, a few had the heavy thumping/movement in them.....did the 8 hr end up routine etc but I am not hopeful

 

[Flaming Chicken]

I have 1 lovely cockerel from shipped eggs. And he is nice. He is light silver with grey. No brown at all. He is a bit lonely so I will be in search of a buddy for him. I will post pictures once he fluffs up a little.

 

[DeltaBluezTess]

Carol,

Was that all you got from your shipped eggs.....wow, we must have had the same PO carrier!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Carol,

Was that all you got from your shipped eggs.....wow, we must have had the same PO carrier!

I am going to get a resend in the fall. After my incubator gets an overhaul and a surge protector.

 

[CountryFriedChicken]

Ooh.. CountryFriedChicken are these the eggs from me?  I hope they hatch!  Give them a day or two yet! 

yes Rinda - they are yours! I candled them really quick, some have had developed but no movement (I was checking quickly),. so....

 

[harriedhomemaker]

I finally got my CL eggs in the mail, sent on Saturday, arrived late Wed.......had written all over on the box, "leave at PO, call for pickup".....so they stuffed it in my mailbox -sideways and as a bonus looks like a shoeprint on one edge with the corner smashed and several cracked eggs.

That is appalling.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Additional question: is there a barrier below ground as well? If so, how did you construct it?

I have an "apron" of hardware cloth about 1 foot to 18inches out from the base of my runs to prevent digging.

normanack ... yes they are cattle panels held up with T post with horse fence over that. I Also have the hardware cloth around the bottom edges but that is just to keep small baby's from squeezing out of the 2 by 4 holes in the horse fence. I lost some little ones from getting scared and trying to squeeze out the fence the coyotes just run around and pull them out or pick them up,. After the hardware cloth was on i stopped loosing them due to escaping the pen.

I lost a bunch of birds due to digging under so like Flaming Chicken said i maid a skirt. My land has rocks about a foot deep or less so digging down to put fence under the ground was not an option. I took more cattle panels and laid them flat on the ground right next to the pen. you can tie the base of your pen to the ones laying on the ground. That gave me a skirt lying on the ground four feet out away from my pen. I put a bunch of heavy rocks , dirt, and giant logs on the outside edge of the skirt. covering about 2 to 3 feet of the panels the furthest part away from the pen. so if they are right next to the pen trying to dig they only scrap the cattle panels and cant dig. Their instinct it to dig right next to the fence they wont back up four feet and try to tunnel under. and if they did it would take so long you will probably catch them. Ill take some pics and post them tonight.

Flaming Chicken. I will be going to solid roofs on all my runs and pens as soon as i can afford it. I like the protection from sun rain snow bobcats and mountain lions. where i live i have to have a roof and a solid ones are the best. I would take care of the digging threat asap. I had my large hen house safe and not attacked for about a year now. It has an outer fence around the entire coup and pen so they cant get close enough to get the attack drive instincts to kick in. They have never dug under that pen or fence. I think that year maid me think ahhh my coyotes here don't dig. but yea right. the night i lost 90% of my breeding hopes i had the coyotes run right past that pen and come up to one they could run right up to and they dug under. If you can see them crossing your roads i would get skirting up on everything .

 

[KPenley]

After reading so many people's accounts about sandy areas and digging under fences, I have never before felt so fortunate to have the hard clay we have around here! I do have 3/4 inch fencing on the bottom of the pens to deter snakes and weasels, but don't have to generally worry about dogs or fox digging deep enough into our dirt to cause harm!

 

[CibolaChooks]

After reading so many people's accounts about sandy areas and digging under fences, I have never before felt so fortunate to have the hard clay we have around here! I do have 3/4 inch fencing on the bottom of the pens to deter snakes and weasels, but don't have to generally worry about dogs or fox digging deep enough into our dirt to cause harm!

my dirt is hard with allot of clay also. all the tiny rocks in the top foot of dirt packed in make for really hard ground. i dont think that matters when a dog wants to dig