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[WhyDoILikeChickens]

Never heard of these before, sap

 

[Molpet]

Never heard of these before, sap
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Some hybrid layer they came up with. The name sells I guess

 

[Molpet]

Got another young male raccoon makes 34

I seem to be missing a turkey hen. 4 calico are co brooding a few poults. They were all together at 5pm. I went out at 7 and I only seen 3 in a different area of the poultry yard. Two were in the trees with a brown that has been co brooding and one calico has the poults. I went where they usually hang out with 2 brown co broodies. The other brown was there with the poults and a handful of white body feathers in a clump. No blood or body. I took the dog around the perimeter and Annie didn't smell anything. But it has to be a canine to carry her off. Unless she is hiding somewhere.

Turkeys won't let Annie stay in the poultry yard and if she was tied up I think coyotes could get her. She's about 35lbs and coyotes around here are huge. 2/3 the size of the 110lb dog I had. I think they might be coywolves. A Full blooded female wolf was found hit in Grundy county and coywolves have been found in cook and Kankakee county

 

[WhyDoILikeChickens]

So what are you doing with all that raccoon meat? I heard it is similar to steak, used to be Thanksgiving meal, and was even served in the White House for Thanksgiving.
I Couldn't taste it last time but fed some to the chickens. Just have to heat above 165 to kill distemper

 

[Molpet]

So what are you doing with all that raccoon meat? I heard it is similar to steak, used to be Thanksgiving meal, and was even served in the White House for Thanksgiving.
I Couldn't taste it last time but fed some to the chickens. Just have to heat above 165 to kill distemper

I started a new compost pile. Ate it as a kid, didn't care for it.

 

[Faraday40]

Chicken therapy

DS likes to recline in the chair with some scratch grains and and get covered in chickens. Often when the chickens see a person walking toward the chairs , they will run to and stand there waiting. It's great if you like chickens in your lap. He trained them well.

So DH decides to sit down for a break while mowing the lawn. Within seconds he was surrounded. He said he thought he was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

 

[Faraday40]

Two SLO chicks hatched today:

 

[Molpet]

I seem to be missing a turkey hen. 4 calico are co brooding a few poults. They were all together at 5pm. I went out at 7 and I only seen 3 in a different area of the poultry yard. Two were in the trees with a brown that has been co brooding and one calico has the poults. I went where they usually hang out with 2 brown co broodies. The other brown was there with the poults and a handful of white body feathers in a clump. No blood or body. I took the dog around the perimeter and Annie didn't smell anything. But it has to be a canine to carry her off. Unless she is hiding somewhere.

Well apperently the missing hen was hiding. At least there's 4 calico together and the other calicos are accounted for, except for the one that wandered over the fence to nest. The wanderer was last seen on the 24th with the gang of 4 calico chasing her off.... so I don't think it's her. They are acting like nothing happened and I can't tell them apart except for the oldest with a saddle on.

 

[Molpet]

Chicken therapy
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DS likes to recline in the chair with some scratch grains and and get covered in chickens. Often when the chickens see a person walking toward the chairs , they will run to and stand there waiting. It's great if you like chickens in your lap. He trained them well.

So DH decides to sit down for a break while mowing the lawn. Within seconds he was surrounded. He said he thought he was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Too funny.

 

[Faraday40]

Has anyone seen squirrels without fur on tail? It looks and runs across the ground and jumps in trees just like a squirrel, so I'm pretty sure it's a squirrel. .....But that rat tail is freaking me out! Unlike the rabbits that we may trip over, the squirrels do not let people get as close.