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

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Fire Ant Farm said:
Eventful morning.

I guess I had pushed myself harder than I realized, because I was EXHAUSTED last night and slept like a rock. My bedroom is in a corner of the house farthest back with windows on both walls facing the chickens (so I can hear and see stuff). Bay window is behind the head of my bed.

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This morning at about 6:30 I heard a ruckus, but was so tired, I figured it was a little chicken argument and rolled over. At 6:45, bigger ruckus, - I was really groggy, but managed to figure out that it wasn't just a squabble, and when I looked out the window, in the WAY back, behind the S&G girls' pen and Botany Bay pen, I saw a small grey blur near the ground at the fence line. I leapt out of bed, managed to pull some clothes on and ran out there, and sure enough, there was small grey fox trying to figure out how to get in their paddock (at the corner where the second photo is). Fortunately, he couldn't, and I turned the corner to look, he looked up and then loped off. No, I was not awake/alert enough to take the pellet gun with me, though I suspect I wouldn't have gotten a shot.

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Here is the cursed brush pile that still needs to be cleared. Not sure the photo gets across how big it is, but you can see a tree lying on it for scale.

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That being said, the foxes run through between our yards, and what I need to do is "re-fence" the inside of my 8 foot fence with welded wire to close the gaps they come through. I've gotten some of it done here (see photo below), but have a good bit more to do (as well and do something to prevent digging). :he
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The S&Gs don't have a cockerel/cock bird with them - I noted that the fox avoided Khan's paddock (he was in protection mode). Hoping to put a boy with those girls soon once they mature. The Aloha coop is actually back there as well, but they don't have a paddock yet - which may seem horrible, but it's for this exact reason. I think I'm going to move the Aloha girls to a different coop closer to Tank's coops and the GNH bachelor coop on the other other side of the yard, and get a boy with them as soon as I can. The Aloha boys I can leave back there.

So much to do, so much to do!

So after all that, I fell back asleep (waking up with every chicken noise, mind you). Now I need to go do chores. At least it's relatively cool today (90 - though wicked humid).
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gray foxes are good tree climbers!
 
Akrnaf2 said:
gray foxes are good tree climbers!
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Yeah, I knew that. And I've seen first hand that they can jump and climb on sagging fence (the one that took Switch out back and was about to eat her until I interrupted him - jumped out, and I fixed the fence). But if the fence isn't sagging, they can't really get up on this deer netting stuff I use (and the bottom is tacked down). I've started using 7ft metal T posts at corners and on long stretches - harder for them to climb. Ideally, though, I'd like to exclude them as much as I can, diverting them to other land.

(I read that urban foxes rarely climb much because they haven't had to use it unlike wild foxes...)

Got my chores done - we got some rain, so I got soaked doing it, but I'm not complaining!

- Ant Farm
 
Fire Ant Farm said:
Yeah, I knew that. And I've seen first hand that they can jump and climb on sagging fence (the one that took Switch out back and was about to eat her until I interrupted him - jumped out, and I fixed the fence). But if the fence isn't sagging, they can't really get up on this deer netting stuff I use (and the bottom is tacked down). I've started using 7ft metal T posts at corners and on long stretches - harder for them to climb. Ideally, though, I'd like to exclude them as much as I can, diverting them to other land.

(I read that urban foxes rarely climb much because they haven't had to use it unlike wild foxes...)

Got my chores done - we got some rain, so I got soaked doing it, but I'm not complaining!

- Ant Farm
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Are urban fox still allergic to lead traveling around 1800 ft a second?
 
BantyChooks said:
Nope, she sure isn't... I am.



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Not even close....


Look again.. It s not like looking into a mirror, is it?

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