EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[Pensmaster]

I had to hide my face to keep from laughing.

Especially as they sang Amazing Grace followed by the Star Spangled Banner. Lol

Very thoughtful

 

[kajira]

Yes. When neighbors were roofing their home. Rooster completely disappeared he was a very large Orpington. Too friendly followed me like a dog. Had him out for the day while I was there. When I came back around the barn after about an hour he was completely gone. Few feathers were left. So either a human took it or a very large animal took it with out a fight. I looked for days. Nothing. Usually I'll find parts laying around.

makes me appreciate my great pyr. She won't let strange humans on our property either unless I let them in the gate.

 

[Pensmaster]

makes me appreciate my great pyr. She won't let strange humans on our property either unless I let them in the gate.

We have a fence but it's only on one side. So it doesn't do any good. Coyotes have areas where they come and go under the fence. Normally when they take a chicken they drag it under the fence and eat it on the other side. Smaller animals just drag them 20-30 feet and eat them there. That's why this was so unusual maybe 20 feathers and gone.

 

[kajira]

We have a fence but it's only on one side. So it doesn't do any good. Coyotes have areas where they come and go under the fence. Normally when they take a chicken they drag it under the fence and eat it on the other side. Smaller animals just drag them 20-30 feet and eat them there. That's why this was so unusual maybe 20 feathers and gone.

That's so odd.

 

[ocap]

We have a fence but it's only on one side. So it doesn't do any good. Coyotes have areas where they come and go under the fence. Normally when they take a chicken they drag it under the fence and eat it on the other side. Smaller animals just drag them 20-30 feet and eat them there. That's why this was so unusual maybe 20 feathers and gone.

your story makes me mad

 

[Lucky Lemon]

My current view from my deck...the girls are now searching for clues as to what got the rooster.

(The old privacy fence you see just past my daughter's clubhouse is just a divider I have between yards, it is not meant to be predator proof lol).

 

[kwhites634]

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Whites, have you invented the teleportation device yet?!

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No. Had to put it on the back burner; concentrating on getting this dumb shed built. Sure wish I had some structural engineering training.

 

[ocap]

Sure wish I had some structural engineering training.

"you can't push a rope" is what I remember

 

[Pensmaster]

your story makes me mad

It bothered me for a very long time. So now I keep them in their pen bringing weed clippings to them. Roofers are long gone but I still have too many other critters here.

I have a large fenced in area that I used to let them run in but a large hawk/eagle got three of the Orpington hens. It left them in the run as they were too large for them to fly off with. I need to come up with a way to cover the top as I've done on the smaller coops run. Just cost too much to completely cover that size of run. I might do smaller fenced areas inside the large run.

 

[Pensmaster]

"you can't push a rope" is what I remember 

So true