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

[kwhites634]

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Quote: They don't handle pine shavings if they have a small nozzle, though, as I discovered yesterday

 

[kwhites634]

Did you know that it is much easier to catch and kill a mink by stomping on its head at 10AM while it is killing a chicken in the field, than it is to shoot one at night or catch one in a trap?
This just happened 20 minutes ago and my heart is still pounding.
I'm so glad I was home. I was just about to leave to have my safety inspection done. The birds are usually safe in the middle of the day when they can see threats.
I heard mayhem and thought it was cockerels chasing pullets but I knew immediately it was a mink because squirrels don't chase chickens.
I didn't have time to grab a weapon. I ran out and he had a cockerel down biting it's neck. He didn't care that 2 other cockerels were attacking it nor that I was running up to the scene. I just stepped on it's chest and then on his head when he started biting my boot, after a couple minutes the cockerel I thought was dead got up and ran away.
Then I rearranged my boot and started stomping on his neck. We had 4" of rain yesterday and overnight so the ground was really soft.

Made a good mink out of him!

 

[gimmie birdies]

#1 and 2 Blue Isbar, and SFH

 

[Beer can]

Shop vacs are awesome. I use mine for all sorts of stuff. Clean off car motors, grime, gunk, suck the oil off the heads with a small nozzle. Gravel and stones, wood, sawdust. When we gutted our bathroom sucked the water out of the toilet clean. .DW though I was gross.. wouldn't it be grosser to slop it all over the house carrying it out?

 

[Beer can]

Did you know that it is much easier to catch and kill a mink by stomping on its head at 10AM while it is killing a chicken in the field, than it is to shoot one at night or catch one in a trap?
This just happened 20 minutes ago and my heart is still pounding.
I'm so glad I was home. I was just about to leave to have my safety inspection done. The birds are usually safe in the middle of the day when they can see threats.
I heard mayhem and thought it was cockerels chasing pullets but I knew immediately it was a mink because squirrels don't chase chickens.
I didn't have time to grab a weapon. I ran out and he had a cockerel down biting it's neck. He didn't care that 2 other cockerels were attacking it nor that I was running up to the scene. I just stepped on it's chest and then on his head when he started biting my boot, after a couple minutes the cockerel I thought was dead got up and ran away.
Then I rearranged my boot and started stomping on his neck. We had 4" of rain yesterday and overnight so the ground was really soft.

Wow!! :O

I think it was a mink that got a lot of my ducks.
I caught a fisher on my trail cam way up out back behind my house. Hope it doesn't ever visit my coops....

 

[kajira]

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[kwhites634]

Quote: At least you're in the right state

No future in hitting the panic button 'til you know what you're faced with. Might be a simple cure. See what that goat vet has to say, then panic if it's justified.

 

[kajira]

Shop vacs are awesome. I use mine for all sorts of stuff. Clean off car motors, grime, gunk, suck the oil off the heads with a small nozzle. Gravel and stones, wood, sawdust. When we gutted our bathroom sucked the water out of the toilet clean. .DW though I was gross.. wouldn't it be grosser to slop it all over the house carrying it out?

You guys who are losing animals to predator need a donkey, or a live stock guardian dog. Something that will kill predators. ;o

 

[BullChick]

Shop vacs are awesome. I use mine for all sorts of stuff. Clean off car motors, grime, gunk, suck the oil off the heads with a small nozzle. Gravel and stones, wood, sawdust. When we gutted our bathroom sucked the water out of the toilet clean. .DW though I was gross.. wouldn't it be grosser to slop it all over the house carrying it out?

True, it's gross. But I know you are right, and would do it.
I've used the shop vac for a lot of disgusting things. I hate it, then get over it. Usually!

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: I know where there's a fair-sized stack of pallets, probably free for the hauling; come get 'em. Only a couple hundred feet from TSC, too