Granny's gone and done it again

[campingshaws]

That seems likely, but I know for sure I emptied her nest of extras two days ago. Wouldn't think I'd see veins that soon.
Lagertha (pancake's mom) strikes like a snake if you're within six inches of her. Luckily I make the rules for my farm, so they don't set their own boundaries. I do.

What do you do, eat them if they don't behave?

Haven't yet, but I send them on their way to auction or somewhere else. I don't keep bad birds. Except Lagertha, and when she's broody I move her to the house so no one accidentally gets to her.

I don't want my farm to be the reason that a kid develops a fear of something. I let the campers/visitors decide if they want to help with food and water or handle the animals. If not, they can pick eggs. Or sit on the picnic table. I only keep the hens and roos that tolerate being handled, and the farm. My honas are a separate matter, but Lagertha went broody in the layer coop last summer and bit a guy before I could move her.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

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energy vampires

 

[BantyChooks]

OH  no !!!   Duct tape and bailing wire/twine     magic stuff that

Duct tape tomorrow... I got busy cleaning so didn't have much time before dark to fix it. I just got it secure enough that the chooks will be safe from something not very hungry.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

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should work for the night.

 

[h2oratt]

energy vampires

That's a good way to explain them.

 

[h2oratt]

Duct tape tomorrow... I got busy cleaning so didn't have much time before dark to fix it. I just got it secure enough that the chooks will be safe from something not very hungry.

Do you have a lot of predators there?

 

[BantyChooks]

Do you have a lot of predators there?

Don't see many, no, and I've left the door open on accident before all night and notta happened. Biggest preds here are hawks and dogs. I've had many dog attacks, 3 hawk attacks, 1 weasel, and 1 mink in three years.

Of course, now that I said that....

 

[h2oratt]

Haven't yet, but I send them on their way to auction or somewhere else. I don't keep bad birds. Except Lagertha, and when she's broody I move her to the house so no one accidentally gets to her.

I don't want my farm to be the reason that a kid develops a fear of something. I let the campers/visitors decide if they want to help with food and water or handle the animals. If not, they can pick eggs. Or sit on the picnic table. I only keep the hens and roos that tolerate being handled, and the farm. My honas are a separate matter, but Lagertha went broody in the layer coop last summer and bit a guy before I could move her.

Oh yes, I forgot you have an open farm there. That is great. I knew nothing of Broodys til last summer. I just sequestered mine. Figured it was normal. She was protecting her eggs.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

I think I have only had coons so far and some very big/hungry farm/feral cats.. Yuri scared up a mother weasel and 3 kits on the road adjoining the big pasture to the west. I know he got (killed) one of them not sure which of the bunch.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

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for the most part think broody hens tend to be protective