I'd second if you can do deeper and out it would be better. I haven't had predator problems so far, but my girls like to dust bathe against the fence which is making holes about as deep as my buried wire!
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I'd second if you can do deeper and out it would be better. I haven't had predator problems so far, but my girls like to dust bathe against the fence which is making holes about as deep as my buried wire!
Got to do some catching up again cause I spent the whole afternoon into evening at the ER. I have a broken leg 4 dead LF, 2 injured Silkies and 4 total Silkies with feathers glued to them by dog slobber.
When I went out to spend some time with my critters yesterday I saw a strange dog was in my pasture attacking my range chickens. I went running broom in hand ( they can do some damage when swang right ) I was chasing the dog trying to get him out of my pasture when he turned the wrong way and headed towards goat pasture. He ducked under the picnic table, I went to kick him and missed and hit the bench instead. Broke my leg! Went down crying. Just then DS was coming back from taking the LGD's to get their yearly's. At that point all he saw was a dog attacking me. So he turned the LGD's loose. I wont go into that.
So DS gets me to the gazebo and starts the hunt for dead and or injured chickens. I cleaned the mauled and injured and DS started burying all the dead while I went to the ER.
I absolutely hate Mondays, and I had such a great week last week, guess you have to expect bad after good.
As of right now 1 of the injured Silkies is still just sitting around, I have her food and water and Suite cake close by. The others are ranging in the back yard. no more pasture ranging for them. While I was in the ER DS and DH found that the dog had chewed his way through the welded wire at the back of the horse pasture, JUST put it up a couple weeks ago, and the patched that and put up a new fence up separating the horses and the goats, now my LF can only range in the goat pasture, which is closer to the house and the LGD's. My LF girls and boys are not real happy about that either, they cant scratch around in the horse poo no more.
We found out who's dog it WAS cause 1 of the neighbors that knew the dog saw the whole show. The dog owner called the police and the showed up her bright and early. So me and my crutches had to take them out to where the Dog and my chickens were buried. I asked him if he wanted me to dig my chickens up, cause he was almost calling me a lair as to the reason the dog was dead, and was blaming my LGD's, wanting vacation records and all...... and EXCUSE me but MY PROPERTY is where this all took place not down the rd. I am the one down 4 hens, and maybe 1 Silkie ( ???)
Cops are just plain stupid now days!! The law is protecting the wrong and prosecuting the right. What is up with that.
Hope ya'll had a better start to the week then I did.
When I went out to spend some time with my critters yesterday I saw a strange dog was in my pasture attacking my range chickens. I went running broom in hand ( they can do some damage when swang right ) I was chasing the dog trying to get him out of my pasture when he turned the wrong way and headed towards goat pasture. He ducked under the picnic table, I went to kick him and missed and hit the bench instead. Broke my leg! Went down crying. Just then DS was coming back from taking the LGD's to get their yearly's. At that point all he saw was a dog attacking me. So he turned the LGD's loose. I wont go into that.
So DS gets me to the gazebo and starts the hunt for dead and or injured chickens. I cleaned the mauled and injured and DS started burying all the dead while I went to the ER.
I absolutely hate Mondays, and I had such a great week last week, guess you have to expect bad after good.
As of right now 1 of the injured Silkies is still just sitting around, I have her food and water and Suite cake close by. The others are ranging in the back yard. no more pasture ranging for them. While I was in the ER DS and DH found that the dog had chewed his way through the welded wire at the back of the horse pasture, JUST put it up a couple weeks ago, and the patched that and put up a new fence up separating the horses and the goats, now my LF can only range in the goat pasture, which is closer to the house and the LGD's. My LF girls and boys are not real happy about that either, they cant scratch around in the horse poo no more.
We found out who's dog it WAS cause 1 of the neighbors that knew the dog saw the whole show. The dog owner called the police and the showed up her bright and early. So me and my crutches had to take them out to where the Dog and my chickens were buried. I asked him if he wanted me to dig my chickens up, cause he was almost calling me a lair as to the reason the dog was dead, and was blaming my LGD's, wanting vacation records and all...... and EXCUSE me but MY PROPERTY is where this all took place not down the rd. I am the one down 4 hens, and maybe 1 Silkie ( ???)
Cops are just plain stupid now days!! The law is protecting the wrong and prosecuting the right. What is up with that.
Hope ya'll had a better start to the week then I did.
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Got to do some catching up again cause I spent the whole afternoon into evening at the ER. I have a broken leg 4 dead LF, 2 injured Silkies and 4 total Silkies with feathers glued to them by dog slobber.
When I went out to spend some time with my critters yesterday I saw a strange dog was in my pasture attacking my range chickens. I went running broom in hand ( they can do some damage when swang right ) I was chasing the dog trying to get him out of my pasture when he turned the wrong way and headed towards goat pasture. He ducked under the picnic table, I went to kick him and missed and hit the bench instead. Broke my leg! Went down crying. Just then DS was coming back from taking the LGD's to get their yearly's. At that point all he saw was a dog attacking me. So he turned the LGD's loose. I wont go into that.
So DS gets me to the gazebo and starts the hunt for dead and or injured chickens. I cleaned the mauled and injured and DS started burying all the dead while I went to the ER.
I absolutely hate Mondays, and I had such a great week last week, guess you have to expect bad after good.
As of right now 1 of the injured Silkies is still just sitting around, I have her food and water and Suite cake close by. The others are ranging in the back yard. no more pasture ranging for them. While I was in the ER DS and DH found that the dog had chewed his way through the welded wire at the back of the horse pasture, JUST put it up a couple weeks ago, and the patched that and put up a new fence up separating the horses and the goats, now my LF can only range in the goat pasture, which is closer to the house and the LGD's. My LF girls and boys are not real happy about that either, they cant scratch around in the horse poo no more.
We found out who's dog it WAS cause 1 of the neighbors that knew the dog saw the whole show. The dog owner called the police and the showed up her bright and early. So me and my crutches had to take them out to where the Dog and my chickens were buried. I asked him if he wanted me to dig my chickens up, cause he was almost calling me a lair as to the reason the dog was dead, and was blaming my LGD's, wanting vacation records and all...... and EXCUSE me but MY PROPERTY is where this all took place not down the rd. I am the one down 4 hens, and maybe 1 Silkie ( ???)
Cops are just plain stupid now days!! The law is protecting the wrong and prosecuting the right. What is up with that.
Hope ya'll had a better start to the week then I did.
Sounds like a couple very eventful days! So sorry for your loss of birds and mobility. Hope your leg heals well! That stray got what it deserved! Your LGDs did good protecting you and their livestock I hope they got steaks for their trouble! Again I'm too far away to help but know that I wish I could. Take care of you and best of luck t your lil Silkie too.
Love the miklhouse!And my lavender silkie hen
Please -
Test all the paint inside and out for lead before housing your birds there. Paint stores, Lowes, etc. have lead tests that are easy to use.
Lead in the paint can leach into the ground around the structures and of course inside and can cause illness in the birds. It can be fixed with some remediation if there is lead...better to find out before and take care of it ahead of time if needed!
http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2013/03/lead-and-zinc-hidden-dangers-to-your.html
@chick rookie would you be interested in an easter egger, a silver laced wyndotte, and some small splash sumatras. I'm giving them away for free as they are not great quality. The SLW and the EE were hatched with squinty eyes that never fully opened. The splash sumatras are the runts, I would have already put them down but I already had the special pen for the squinty eyes.
When I fun the nest I float test the eggs. If they sink they are good. I would then bump all those eggs up to the front since you washed them and broke the protective coating those eggs are more suceoptiable to getting bacteria in. So just wag hands before you handle them and you will e goodFound my first secret egg stash:This is one of my newly-laying hens, a RIR. Possibly two hens - some of the eggs have a distinctly rosier tint. I have a black Orp who is a serious nest hog, bordering on broody, and the others are too dense to realize that there's more than one nest box. So she found a nice spot behind the dust bath box. I have found some of her eggs in the coop, and possibly one or two in the nest, last week. Obviously I don't know how long she's been doing this... no more than a month for sure, and I'm guessing around two or three weeks. This morning I'm going to move everything non-essential out of the coop to clear all the corners, and fill in the space behind the dust bath with litter. I'm hoping that if the nest boxes are the only dark place in the coop, they'll get used. If not, at least the eggs will be where I can see them. So the question is, can I still eat these eggs, or should I toss them? I know eggs are often kept on the counter for several weeks, provided the bloom hasn't been washed off. I'm fairly certain these haven't been sat upon for any length of time beyond laying the next egg. I have another question for the group, while I'm here. Right now 1/2 of my kinda small (108sqft) run is covered by a tarp. My thought was they'd like to have some shade outdoors. However, I never see the chickens in that part of the run - they're always in the coop or in the sun. The coop is 144sqft, so there's plenty of room in there for everyone to hang out. The question is, should I just ditch the tarp, so they have more sun? Does anyone else here have a totally unsheltered run?
Some breeds have lethal genes. Like tufts are a lethal gene in araucanas. With lethal genes they normally don't hatch. Not hatch and then die off. Looking at the breeds and outcome I don't think it is a lethal gene. Some breeds it lines just don't have much vigor. I personally don't think polish do. That may be part of your problem. The chicks could just be having a hard time thriving.
Got to do some catching up again cause I spent the whole afternoon into evening at the ER. I have a broken leg 4 dead LF, 2 injured Silkies and 4 total Silkies with feathers glued to them by dog slobber.
When I went out to spend some time with my critters yesterday I saw a strange dog was in my pasture attacking my range chickens. I went running broom in hand ( they can do some damage when swang right ) I was chasing the dog trying to get him out of my pasture when he turned the wrong way and headed towards goat pasture. He ducked under the picnic table, I went to kick him and missed and hit the bench instead. Broke my leg! Went down crying. Just then DS was coming back from taking the LGD's to get their yearly's. At that point all he saw was a dog attacking me. So he turned the LGD's loose. I wont go into that.
So DS gets me to the gazebo and starts the hunt for dead and or injured chickens. I cleaned the mauled and injured and DS started burying all the dead while I went to the ER.
I absolutely hate Mondays, and I had such a great week last week, guess you have to expect bad after good.
As of right now 1 of the injured Silkies is still just sitting around, I have her food and water and Suite cake close by. The others are ranging in the back yard. no more pasture ranging for them. While I was in the ER DS and DH found that the dog had chewed his way through the welded wire at the back of the horse pasture, JUST put it up a couple weeks ago, and the patched that and put up a new fence up separating the horses and the goats, now my LF can only range in the goat pasture, which is closer to the house and the LGD's. My LF girls and boys are not real happy about that either, they cant scratch around in the horse poo no more.
We found out who's dog it WAS cause 1 of the neighbors that knew the dog saw the whole show. The dog owner called the police and the showed up her bright and early. So me and my crutches had to take them out to where the Dog and my chickens were buried. I asked him if he wanted me to dig my chickens up, cause he was almost calling me a lair as to the reason the dog was dead, and was blaming my LGD's, wanting vacation records and all...... and EXCUSE me but MY PROPERTY is where this all took place not down the rd. I am the one down 4 hens, and maybe 1 Silkie ( ???)
Cops are just plain stupid now days!! The law is protecting the wrong and prosecuting the right. What is up with that.
Hope ya'll had a better start to the week then I did.
So sorry about all of this. That's traumatic just to read.
Hugs to you...
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Hi! these are picks of sven, Rapunzel and Cordelia
Sven
Sven's girl friends came to visit him out on the windowsill. they hung out though the glass for more then an hour.
inside Sven next to Sven (outside) is Rapunzel then Cordelia.
they are way too cute
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Sven
Sven's girl friends came to visit him out on the windowsill. they hung out though the glass for more then an hour.
inside Sven next to Sven (outside) is Rapunzel then Cordelia.
they are way too cute
Hi! these are picks of sven, Rapunzel and Cordelia
Sven
Sven's girl friends came to visit him out on the windowsill. they hung out though the glass for more then an hour.
inside Sven next to Sven (outside) is Rapunzel then Cordelia.
they are way too cute.
So glad they can see each other! That will help the new guy feel better I'm sure
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