Long time poultry owner, forum newbie

[Selkie35]

Hello and welcome to BYC - thanks for joining us. Please make yourself at home. In my much younger days I dived in Scapa Flow - an experience never to be forgotten

Best wishes

Pork Pie

Yes, the reason I moved to Orkney in the first place was for the diving! Used to do a lot more than I do now. Nowadays its eggs for supper rather than scallops

 

[Selkie35]

Thank you all for making me so welcome!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens the awful loss here or there varmits are the bane of chickens or duck owners

 

[Shadrach]

Hello Selkie35.
Welcome to BYC.
Which island do you live on. You couldn't see your way to sending me a wee dram of the local single malt could you?

 

[Shadrach]

A stoat is in the same family as weasels & ferrets. We don't have many predators in Orkney - no foxes; but stoats were accidentally introduced a few years ago and have spread like mad causing all sorts of problems for native wildlife and for us poultry owners.

A weasel is weasely recognised while a stoat is stoataly different.

 

[Pork Pie]

In a “Brucey” kinda way

 

[Selkie35]

Hello Selkie35.
Welcome to BYC.
Which island do you live on. You couldn't see your way to sending me a wee dram of the local single malt could you?

I'm on Mainland Orkney, just outside Stromness. But I'm afraid that single malt just doesn't last long around here

 

[N F C]

I've raised RIR's in the past and enjoyed them too...good all round birds.

Thanks for joining us, it's nice to have you here!

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC, and good luck with the incubation. Hopefully the stoat has been eliminated.

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens