Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[RedBrush Farm]

Oh my, there are 2 of them outside. I can hear then hooting back and forth to each other.

My best friends little boy lost his pet BBRed to an owl 2 days ago. In daylight it just swooped down and carried him away. Not even a feather left. The whole family is sad. He had been with them almost 5 years. We have coyote, fox and raccoon problems here. They are not afraid to come up in the daytime while I am at the barn.

 

[madamwlf]

My best friends little boy lost his pet BBRed to an owl 2 days ago. In daylight it just swooped down and carried him away. Not even a feather left. The whole family is sad. He had been with them almost 5 years. We have coyote, fox and raccoon problems here. They are not afraid to come up in the daytime while I am at the barn.

Makes me so glad my girls are in spacious pens.

 

[RedBrush Farm]

Makes me so glad my girls are in spacious pens.

All of my birds have their own pens. Some with netting and some without. The raccoons just climb the fence and come on in. I have re-homed 5 this year and the neighbor shot 4 eating out of his bird feeders. I don't like to kill them, but its hard when you come home to a pen where they kill 5 or 6 and then have only eaten one.

 

[animalsRawesome]

Oh gosh! Could you send one of them over here to catch the skunk that's taken up night-time quarters in my chicken shed???

Never had to trap and move an animal before, and of course it has to be a skunk. Very tame, peaceful skunk -- he looks at me, waddles out, I go in...

My uncle was showing me in one of his magazines... can't remember which magazine... that they make a special skunk trap. It is just the right size/design so it catches the skunk (live-trap) but the skunk can't lift his tail to spray!

Hey, I have a question! How do you tell the difference between an adolescent Australorp hen and an adolescent clean-legged BCM hen?

I really don't know, but... is it by feet color? IK that you can tell BA from Black Giants by the color of the bottom of their feet, so maybe same rule applies?

 

[WVstruttin]

When you catch and "rehome" the critters that are causing you problems you basically just turned em loose on someone else.

 

[RedBrush Farm]

When you catch and "rehome" the critters that are causing you problems you basically just turned em loose on someone else.

We take them to the Mark Twain National Forrest. They would run into town before another chicken pen. I guess it isn't nice to think they may end up in town (after a many mile journey) to get into trash and stuff. Cape Girardeau would be the closest place and they have a no chicken ordinance.

 

[cluckitall]

I really don't know, but... is it by feet color? IK that you can tell BA from Black Giants by the color of the bottom of their feet, so maybe same rule applies?

Yeah, I don't know either! I've got two that were supposedly BCMs (in Meyer's leftovers bin) but I'll be darned if, from chickhood on thru to 8 weeks now, I can tell 'em apart from my aussie chicks. It's fine with me if they're aussies! This is my "table egg" mutt flock, anyway

 

[cluckitall]

When you catch and "rehome" the critters that are causing you problems you basically just turned em loose on someone else.

Ya know, you've got a point there... But there are plenty of places I could turn him loose he'd have to at least work at it to get back to civilization. And he's a friendly little fellow (might be all those months of eating cat food right along with the barn cats -- seriously. Right there in the middle of 'em!) I'd feel a little bad about killing him, considering how many chances he's had to spray me and hasn't.

 

[WVstruttin]

We take them to the Mark Twain National Forrest. They would run into town before another chicken pen. I guess it isn't nice to think they may end up in town (after a many mile journey) to get into trash and stuff. Cape Girardeau would be the closest place and they have a no chicken ordinance.

We take em to GreatForestInSky. lol
Seriously though, predators are a real problem here because no one traps any more. no coonhunters

 

[cluckitall]

LOL! And I have to admit, I'm not about to risk getting sprayed, so maybe yeah I don't have a trap, though, so right at this moment it's all theoretical.

Now have a confirmed 4 secret Santa eggs developing! Which means my revamped 'bators are at least capable of sustaining life... Still four I'm not sure about -- one has a detached air cell, though, so I'm not holding out hopes on that one.