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So yesterday I decided to move my little naked necks from their little brick enclosure into a bigger cage. Well, everything seemed to go great and they were super happy. But this morning, I woke up to see a dead chick laying out side the pen. So,I walked out there to go check it out. When I got closer, I saw the the the huge boulders by the door had been moved and a huge hole had been dug leading into the pen. It looked like a massacre inside. Feathers everywhere, and all 13 chicks gone. I walked around my property and found 3 other bodies. What could have done this?

Those beautiful babies! Arrrrgh!

I am so sorry!

 

[deserteggs22]

  Those beautiful babies! Arrrrgh! 

       I am so sorry!   

I was a bawling mess this morning!

 

[kwhites634]

So yesterday I decided to move my little naked necks from their little brick enclosure into a bigger cage. Well, everything seemed to go great and they were super happy. But this morning, I woke up to see a dead chick laying out side the pen. So,I walked out there to go check it out. When I got closer, I saw the the the huge boulders by the door had been moved and a huge hole had been dug leading into the pen. It looked like a massacre inside. Feathers everywhere, and all 13 chicks gone. I walked around my property and found 3 other bodies. What could have done this?

Coyote? Stray dog, badger, wolverine? Bobcat, maybe. Hole looks too large for 'coon, weasel or fox, too small for a big cat (as in mountain lion). I'd try to catch a picture of it on a trail cam.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

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Where are they sailing to?

Off into the wild blue yonder.

I noticed a huge amount of red ant activity in my coop this morning for my juvies.

The question is, move the coop, sprinkle some DE on the ants, or hope the chickens eat them?

Glad we don't have red ants. The monster black ones that attack my bee hives are problem enough.

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In the last 6 years we became independent ( at least for industry and home use) on ouer water supply. Mor then 60% of ouer water comes from desalination.

Desalination

Random that I forgot to share yesterday.

... Anyway, official crazy chicken lady at church now too!

At least it's official.

Potato salad for breakfast. My southern is showing.

Just wish I had sweet tea to go with it.

I like potato salad for breakfast.
Ten of the 12 states with the highest type 2 diabetes rates are in the South. I wonder if sweet tea is a contributor.
I know it is way to sweet for my taste buds.

Thanks Mike, I'm excited about being able to make plain yogurt with my goats milk since it is good for them and plain yogurt is expensive at the store.

Goat and sheep yogurt is pretty expensive here in relation to cows milk.
In fact, the only place I've seen it is at Whole Foods.

Oh? I sold a car on CL last year before the ad had been posted for 10 minutes!

It is amazing how many cars are posted on CL. On our CL there's about 1 a minute.

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Archery should be in soon if MI is like MD. I can't pull a bow these days, but we can use a crossbow.

Crossbows just became legal here for archery season.

Because of heavy wolf predatation and harsh Winters last year and this year you cannot shoot a doe with a bow in the upper peninsula you still can in the lower peninsula. Hopefully if we have another mild winter maybe they'll go back to letting you shoot a doe with a bow next year I don't know. I've been using a crossbow for years because my shoulders are so bad I can't pull it back if I wanted to. And when I did bow hunt I use the kids Bow for the last 20 years.
Me too..... It was rough for a while.

I forgot about your long snow cover and the deer.

My daughter wants to go to the Zoo... it's like 20+ a person for a kid, and almost 30 for an adult. When did Zoo prices get to be so expensive?!

Our zoo, 4th best in the world according to TripAdvisor, is free. It is also the #1 free attraction in the US. The bonus is that it is only 30 minutes from my house.
There's a plaque that was placed on the entrance 100 years ago declaring it would always be free.
One third of the funding comes from property taxes, one third from food service and concessions and parking fees at the zoo. The other third is from private donations.
One of my good friends was their primary fundraising solicitor till the Missouri Botanical Garden hired him away.
It gets 3 million visitors a year.
https://www.stlzoo.org/about/contact/pressroom/factsheet/
The 1904 world's fair and the bird cage built for it was a big reason for its formation. The bird cage is the world's largest free flight aviary and is a walk through attreaction.

I love zoos! When we take the kids DH walks through like a normal person. I like to sit and study them. I read all the signs. I look at the flowers in the habitat. The kids usually stay with me.

I read all the signs every time too, much to my wife's chagrin.
I haven't been this year yet. There are a bunch of new attractions I want to see. Tasmanian Devil Den, Polar Bear Point, Stingrays at Caribbean Cove and Penguin and Puffin Coast. Once inhabitants of the bear pit area near the entrance, the Polar Bears got a new home twice the size of their original digs. The "sea" area features an arctic cave room with a glass viewing wall where you can see directly into the 50,000-gallon Polar Dive Pool and has a split view into and across the pool and on to Bear Beach.

We have the opposite problem here. The state's deer population is so large that they're creating a problem for motorists and farmers. The limit for does is all but non-existent. The state's gone to turning gov't sharpshooters loose; they kill anything that moves, regardless of sex or age, and let them lay to rot, rather than donating them to the poor & hungry. I guess they don't trust private hunters not to shoot one another

On top of that, we can check deer in online; don't even have to go to a check station. All that does is encourage poaching. Eventually, the unlimited doe limits is going to decimate the population, and deer hunting will be only a memory, to the delight of the anti-gun & anti-hunting factions.

Friends of mine are on the sharpshooting squad. The meat always goes to charity.

Our problem with getting a zoo membership is it's 6+ hours of driving, round trip, to go to the closest zoo.
I don't mind making that trip once... but I don't know if I can justify a membership we'd never be able to use on a regular basis.

Wow, that's a long drive.

I have one that overnight developed a neurological problem. The vet said it could be Lysteria, Pollio, or one of several other things. She gave her Penicillin, a blue mineral shot, and three others. She gets all but the mineral shot for three additional days.

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Vitamin deficiency?

It was really neat.
I think I will contact them when it is time to put my buck down. I have heard that they put them down humanely and feed parts to the cats.

There's a big cat rescue center in Costa Rica.
http://www.centrorescatelaspumas.org/en/volunteering
http://www.centrorescatelaspumas.org/en/our-animals
One of my goals is to work there as a volunteer.

One of my silkies started laying today. It was fertilized it was the same size of the serama eggs. So the next few I will throw in the bator

You're hatching pullet eggs?

 

[deserteggs22]

Coyote? Stray dog, badger, wolverine? Bobcat, maybe. Hole looks too large for 'coon, weasel or fox, too small for a big cat (as in mountain lion). I'd try to catch a picture of it on a trail cam.

There is a stray duchshund in ou Neighborhood.....
Or a bobcat.

 

[kwhites634]

desalinization @ChickenCanoe

 

[campingshaws]

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Where are they sailing to?

Off into the wild blue yonder.

 
I noticed a huge amount of red ant activity in my coop this morning for my juvies.

The question is, move the coop, sprinkle some DE on the ants, or hope the chickens eat them?

Glad we don't have red ants. The monster black ones that attack my bee hives are problem enough.

Quote:

In the last 6 years we became independent ( at least for industry and home use) on ouer water supply. Mor then 60% of ouer water comes from desalination.

Desalination

 
Random that I forgot to share yesterday. 

...   Anyway, official crazy chicken lady at church now too!

At least it's official.

Potato salad for breakfast. My southern is showing. Just wish I had sweet tea to go with it.

I like potato salad for breakfast.
Ten of the 12 states with the highest type 2 diabetes rates are in the South. I wonder if sweet tea is a contributor.
I know it is way to sweet for my taste buds.

Thanks Mike, I'm excited about being able to make plain yogurt with my goats milk since it is good for them and plain yogurt is expensive at the store.

Goat and sheep yogurt is pretty expensive here in relation to cows milk.
In fact, the only place I've seen it is at Whole Foods.

 
Oh? I sold a car on CL last year before the ad had been posted for 10 minutes!

It is amazing how many cars are posted on CL. On our CL there's about 1 a minute.

Quote:

 
Archery should be in soon if MI is like MD. I can't pull a bow these days, but we can use a crossbow.

Crossbows just became legal here for archery season.

Because of heavy wolf predatation and harsh Winters last year and this year you cannot shoot a doe with a bow in the upper peninsula you still can in the lower peninsula. Hopefully if we have another mild winter maybe they'll go back to letting you shoot a doe with a bow next year I don't know. I've been using a crossbow for years because my shoulders are so bad I can't pull it back if I wanted to. And when I did bow hunt I use the kids Bow for the last 20 years.

Me too..... It was rough for a while.

I forgot about your long snow cover and the deer.

 
My daughter wants to go to the Zoo... it's like 20+ a person for a kid, and almost 30 for an adult. When did Zoo prices get to be so expensive?!

 Our zoo, 4th best in the world according to TripAdvisor, is free. It is also the #1 free attraction in the US. The bonus is that it is only 30 minutes from my house.
There's a plaque that was placed on the entrance 100 years ago declaring it would always be free.
One third of the funding comes from property taxes, one third from food service and concessions and parking fees at the zoo. The other third is from private donations.
One of my good friends was their primary fundraising solicitor till the Missouri Botanical Garden hired him away.
It gets 3 million visitors a year.
https://www.stlzoo.org/about/contact/pressroom/factsheet/
The 1904 world's fair and the bird cage built for it was a big reason for its formation. The bird cage is the world's largest free flight aviary and is a walk through attreaction.

I love zoos! When we take the kids DH walks through like a normal person. I like to sit and study them. I read all the signs. I look at the flowers in the habitat. The kids usually stay with me.

I read all the signs every time too, much to my wife's chagrin.
I haven't been this year yet. There are a bunch of new attractions I want to see. Tasmanian Devil Den, Polar Bear Point, Stingrays at Caribbean Cove and Penguin and Puffin Coast. Once inhabitants of the bear pit area near the entrance, the Polar Bears got a new home twice the size of their original digs. The "sea" area features an arctic cave room with a glass viewing wall where you can see directly into the 50,000-gallon Polar Dive Pool and has a split view into and across the pool and on to Bear Beach.

 
We have the opposite problem here. The state's deer population is so large that they're creating a problem for motorists and farmers. The limit for does is all but non-existent. The state's gone to turning gov't sharpshooters loose; they kill anything that moves, regardless of sex or age, and let them lay to rot, rather than donating them to the poor

Friends of mine are on the sharpshooting squad. The meat always goes to charity.

 
Our problem with getting a zoo membership is it's 6+ hours of driving, round trip, to go to the closest zoo.
I don't mind making that trip once... but I don't know if I can justify a membership we'd never be able to use on a regular basis.

Wow, that's a long drive.

I have one that overnight developed a neurological problem. The vet said it could be Lysteria, Pollio, or one of several other things. She gave her Penicillin, a blue mineral shot, and three others. She gets all but the mineral shot for three additional days. .

Vitamin deficiency?

It was really neat.

I think I will contact them when it is time to put my buck down. I have heard that they put them down humanely and feed parts to the cats.

There's a big cat rescue center in Costa Rica.
http://www.centrorescatelaspumas.org/en/volunteering
http://www.centrorescatelaspumas.org/en/our-animals
One of my goals is to work there as a volunteer.

One of my silkies started laying today. It was fertilized it was the same size of the serama eggs. So the next few I will throw in the bator

You're hatching pullet eggs?

Next time we go I'll call you. The kids were talking about it this morning; bubba loves elephants and DD loves giraffes. That's the only zoo I could think of with both.

 

[Akrnaf2]

So yesterday I decided to move my little naked necks from their little brick enclosure into a bigger cage. Well, everything seemed to go great and they were super happy. But this morning, I woke up to see a dead chick laying out side the pen. So,I walked out there to go check it out. When I got closer, I saw the the the huge boulders by the door had been moved and a huge hole had been dug leading into the pen. It looked like a massacre inside. Feathers everywhere, and all 13 chicks gone. I walked around my property and found 3 other bodies. What could have done this?

A Badger?

 

[kwhites634]

Quote: Too late! I already said that

 

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Mira returned to the coop Friday evening. She's quite a bit smaller than all of her sisters/brother now but she's doing well and eating good. She has to find her new place in the pecking order now which is looking like the very bottom at the moment but she's not getting beaten up, just pecked here and there. She's still very people friendly though. She's learned her name during her time in the house and will come when called and hop up in my lap

So wonderul that Mira has healed with the bonus of increased human friendliness!

I am intrigued with the size difference - like her body stopped growing while she healed. I wonder if this will be permanent or if she'll catch up.