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OMG, her head is soooo tiny on that big floofy body:lau:lau so cute!:love:love:love
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Ha! Yes they are exceedingly floofy and cute šŸ„°
 
OMG, the facebook group rabbit hole just bit me in the butt. Finalizing details now.

The last 48 hours been on a secret mission, still in the works.
I took a break from searching and simply was scrolling through my feed and a local post caught my eye. As in local within 5 minutes of my work. I should not have inquired, but I did. Price is perfect, age is perfect and they are willing to drop her off at the Diner. They are also willing to sell separately from the 2 cockerels. I do not need her, but, well, she comes home Friday.
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Iā€™m sorry I havenā€™t been on here the past few daysā€¦ Iā€™ve been focusing on school, and my AP Gov grade has gotten better.
Iā€™ll try to catch up pretty soon, but tonight is NOT the night. I got three hours of sleep last night because of homework for my literature classā€¦

Anyways, I was planning on coming on here to ask a question about a hen, but something more interesting happened yesterday and I found out about it todayā€¦

Now, in Southeastern GA, there are very few black bears. Very, very few. The last time there was a bear spotting in my county was in 2011.
Until yesterday, as far as I know.

Last night, at 11:40 PM (I believe), one of my families trail cameras picked up a very large visitor last night.

This camera is right at the edge of my 25 acres of baby pine trees. And next to those 25 acres is 14 acres of cleared land which is where my house is, my chooks are, and my goats are.
That that is lovely. I have a decent sized black bear relatively close to where me and my animals live.
So I am slightly terrified, especially since bears scare meā€¦
Anyways, thatā€™s that. Iā€™ll try to get on here tomorrow and catch up and post some other stuff.

Oh, before I post this, I lost another chook. Saturday night, my favorite free ranging hen got killed by something. Mom found a pile of feathers the next morning. I was pretty bummed. Iā€™ll see if I can post more about it tomorrow or Friday, but I am quite disappointed. I really loved Syracuse.

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Pastel the Rooster said:
Iā€™m sorry I havenā€™t been on here the past few daysā€¦ Iā€™ve been focusing on school, and my AP Gov grade has gotten better.
Iā€™ll try to catch up pretty soon, but tonight is NOT the night. I got three hours of sleep last night because of homework for my literature classā€¦

Anyways, I was planning on coming on here to ask a question about a hen, but something more interesting happened yesterday and I found out about it todayā€¦

Now, in Southeastern GA, there are very few black bears. Very, very few. The last time there was a bear spotting in my county was in 2011.
Until yesterday, as far as I know.

Last night, at 11:40 PM (I believe), one of my families trail cameras picked up a very large visitor last night.

This camera is right at the edge of my 25 acres of baby pine trees. And next to those 25 acres is 14 acres of cleared land which is where my house is, my chooks are, and my goats are.
That that is lovely. I have a decent sized black bear relatively close to where me and my animals live.
So I am slightly terrified, especially since bears scare meā€¦
Anyways, thatā€™s that. Iā€™ll try to get on here tomorrow and catch up and post some other stuff.

Oh, before I post this, I lost another chook. Saturday night, my favorite free ranging hen got killed by something. Mom found a pile of feathers the next morning. I was pretty bummed. Iā€™ll see if I can post more about it tomorrow or Friday, but I am quite disappointed. I really loved Syracuse.

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You have a bear. Specifically a black bear. They're the smallest bear in North America (90-280ish pounds) and are smart....can even manipulate things. Make sure food is cleaned up, stored in containers in the garage with everything closed. Windows should be closed also. Any easy access food is a bonus. Easy food: chicken feed (or a chicken sleeping out), dog/cat food, trash can contents, etc. If you have a plastic dumpster with a flip open lid, keep it inside the garage except on trash day. A bungy cord over the lid is easily cut with those claws or teeth. The claws are 1-2 inches long.

This time of year, they're looking for places to den up to hibernate for the winter. Something to bear in mind (no pun intended), is that in warmer areas, they may NOT hibernate during the winter.

DS saw one climb over a guardrail on his way to work last week. First one any of us have seen in the 8 years here. At our previous home, 1 wandered INTO the high school. It also wandered out again. Kids stayed in class until it left the building, with adults monitoring from the other end of the hall. No one was hurt, including the bear. Respect the bear's space and it will usually do the same.

Typically bears are more afraid of people than people are of them. Make noise and give it space. Don't come around a corner quietly. As long as it hears you coming, it will probably move off in the opposite direction.

Oh, and black bears CAN climb trees (and other things). They climb very well.
 
Pastel the Rooster said:
Iā€™m sorry I havenā€™t been on here the past few daysā€¦ Iā€™ve been focusing on school, and my AP Gov grade has gotten better.
Iā€™ll try to catch up pretty soon, but tonight is NOT the night. I got three hours of sleep last night because of homework for my literature classā€¦

Anyways, I was planning on coming on here to ask a question about a hen, but something more interesting happened yesterday and I found out about it todayā€¦

Now, in Southeastern GA, there are very few black bears. Very, very few. The last time there was a bear spotting in my county was in 2011.
Until yesterday, as far as I know.

Last night, at 11:40 PM (I believe), one of my families trail cameras picked up a very large visitor last night.

This camera is right at the edge of my 25 acres of baby pine trees. And next to those 25 acres is 14 acres of cleared land which is where my house is, my chooks are, and my goats are.
That that is lovely. I have a decent sized black bear relatively close to where me and my animals live.
So I am slightly terrified, especially since bears scare meā€¦
Anyways, thatā€™s that. Iā€™ll try to get on here tomorrow and catch up and post some other stuff.

Oh, before I post this, I lost another chook. Saturday night, my favorite free ranging hen got killed by something. Mom found a pile of feathers the next morning. I was pretty bummed. Iā€™ll see if I can post more about it tomorrow or Friday, but I am quite disappointed. I really loved Syracuse.

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The ones to worry about are the very young just separated from mama (happens I spring though) and very old bears. Those are the ones that become nuisance bears and can become dangerous.

If you can get electric fencing I would put that up around your animals. Thatā€™s about the only thing to keep out bears.

Bear tax
My wall sitters - I really wish they would learn to go into the hen house to roost.
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