Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

https://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle3.html

Obvioualy I did not know that. Education accepted. That is not what my father taught me.

 

[BY Bob]

That's a great plan! What breeds does she have available?

Quite a few. I will let her respond exactly but leghorns, EEs, etc.

 

[ValerieJ]

Obvioualy I did not know that. Education accepted. That is not what my father taught me.

When I lived in VA, I saw bald eagles eating the carcass of a deer. I think they will eat carrion, I just have not seen it here, and especially not with this pair. I have seen them take a salmon out of the river too big to carry and start eating it on the bank until it was down to a weight they can carry back to the nest.

 

[Shadrach]

I know that if anyone goes broody this year they are getting @CrazyChookChookLady eggs to hatch and raise. My plan is to then offer them to her and then the public just to offer some diversity out there.

Are you two close by then?

 

[BY Bob]

Are you two close by then?

Within 30 miles I believe. I have helped her twice with some fencing.

 

[BY Bob]

She offered fertile eggs when Maleficent went broody last year. It was just too late in the year.

 

[Shadrach]

She offered fertile eggs when Maleficent went broody last year. It was just too late in the year.

You'll go completely gaga with a broody and hatching chicks Bob.
They get me every time and then I spend the next month to six weeks worrying myself to death the the hen doesn't get killed protecting the chicks. That is absolutely heartbreaking.
Put very brutally, chicks are a dime a dozen, establishhed hens that will hatch are rather more valuable to the tribe and to me.

 

[RoyalChick]

American Eagles eat what they actually kill. They are not scavengers.

I think they do both. They definitely kill things like squirrels and rabbits but I have seen video of them scaring off other scavengers to get at a deer carcass by the side of the road. Whatever works!

 

[RoyalChick]

https://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle3.html

Oops missed this post when I replied.
I have friends who live right on the water in an inlet in CT and you can see the eagles fish from their dining room table. I think those are some kind of sea eagle not the bald eagles. Amazing sight nonetheless.

 

[ValerieJ]

Oops missed this post when I replied.
I have friends who live right on the water in an inlet in CT and you can see the eagles fish from their dining room table. I think those are some kind of sea eagle not the bald eagles. Amazing sight nonetheless.

Ours are bald eagles, and we see them fishing from our living room and deck. I think it depends on where they live and what is available to them.

The osprey, on the other hand, eat fish exclusively here. If there are none in this river, they go to a river where the fish are running. We used to have an osprey nest here. It was all out war with the eagles. Not a safe place for them.