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[cthrash1]

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I sometimes see the solar powered boxes at yard sales and the like, do ya want me to keep an eye out for one for ya? This past summer I saw one at a yard sale for like 7 bucks. Usually they are about 20, though.

Little late in the year for it now

but next summer, I mean.

meri

I didn't know you can find them for 20.00...The ones I saw were really expensive. But yeah watch for them if you don't mind...You'd probably know way more than me on what to look for.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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Nope, sorry. I wanted to buy one after the racoon killing Aretha incident, but hubby said wait, see if I have any more problems

No other problems - doesn't mean I don't still want a trap to have on hand.

TSC has the two pack of them (large and small) for about 35 bucks.

The large one will hold a coon, so it'll hold a possum.

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

No sorry, we don't have any traps. Dad's dog Princess is pretty good about keeping predators away, so we haven't had a need for them. Now if she doesn't get busy on keeping the rats out of the building, she is going to lose her nice warm hay and straw bales, so she can sleep in the building with the chickens!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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I sometimes see the solar powered boxes at yard sales and the like, do ya want me to keep an eye out for one for ya? This past summer I saw one at a yard sale for like 7 bucks. Usually they are about 20, though.

Little late in the year for it now

but next summer, I mean.

meri

I didn't know you can find them for 20.00...The ones I saw were really expensive. But yeah watch for them if you don't mind...You'd probably know way more than me on what to look for.

I told hubby to keep an eye out, too, and he said Sure, so ya got him with his eagle eye looking for one, too

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Nope, sorry. I wanted to buy one after the racoon killing Aretha incident, but hubby said wait, see if I have any more problems

No other problems - doesn't mean I don't still want a trap to have on hand.

TSC has the two pack of them (large and small) for about 35 bucks.

The large one will hold a coon, so it'll hold a possum.

meri

Just get one of those big claw type traps, nobody said it has to be alive!!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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you could always teach Horton to be a guard pig

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

So, it is like VERY cold out there.

Cold enough that I plan to go out in a bit and catch Miss Celie and make her go inside tonight.

But, time to put the chickies to bed earlier - had the usual suspects taking their own sweet time - Shug and Jr. and Miss Piggy....

So, I am gonna shut the door on them - Miss Piggy sees this and starts to RUN to the coop

. I let her in then make like I'm gonna close the door again, and Shug and Jr. come running, too.

Guess they didn't want to sleep out in the cold tonight

ever see a chicken with a look of panic on their face because they figured you weren't joking?

meri

 

[estpr13]

I bought a trappers license again this year, for $20.00. So now the city cannot say much about me trapping in my own back yard.

Kentucky's trapping season is from Nov 10 to Feburary 28. So far I have never put any bait in either my catch-em-alive trap or the foot hold trap. I put them along natural "runs". One between my fence and the chicken coop and the other against a 3 foot tall brick wall and my now unused chicken tractor.

The possum I caught was with the foot hold trap. This is the first time I caught anything in the foot hold trap. I only set it when I keep the chickens in their pens. Too dangerous to set it with them running around. It would probably break a chicken's leg. Birds have lighter hollow bones for flight purposes. Possums, coons or dog or cat it only bruses the skin.

I bought both traps from Southern States. The catch-em-alive trap about 4 years ago to catch ground hogs and the foot hold trap last year after losing two prized hens to a mother racoon and her three cubs.

Oh... and a campers ax. No more relocations...

 

[cthrash1]

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Nope, sorry. I wanted to buy one after the racoon killing Aretha incident, but hubby said wait, see if I have any more problems

No other problems - doesn't mean I don't still want a trap to have on hand.

TSC has the two pack of them (large and small) for about 35 bucks.

The large one will hold a coon, so it'll hold a possum.

meri

Just get one of those big claw type traps, nobody said it has to be alive!!

With my luck Raoul or even worse Layne would step in it...Nope better do it the safe way.

 

[estpr13]

My Delaware X Cornish meat chicks are now two weeks old. I asked the lady I got them from if they were sex linked. She said yes somewhat. The males were darker with stripes down their backs and the females were more solid yellow. But there is a lot of spots.

Some of them are already showing signs of being roos by pecking on the others in a dominance fashion. Every now and then I'll hear a loud "squeel". It is one of the males jumping on a smaller chick.

They had all their wing feathers at the end of the first week and now they have all their tail feathers and some shoulder feathers are comming in. They are active when they are awake and cute when asleep.

They could hop and fly to the top of their quart watering jar at the end of the first week and now they can almost hop out of a two foot brooder box. I have a lid on ½ of it, but will need a full lid fairly soon.