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1 AM and still quiet, no rain even. Just a little fog. I can still see the moon. I guess it'll get here.
Jus10: I have a mixed bunch of fertile eggs if and whenever you want them. Roos are EE and one silkie that someone dumped here; hens are EE, Production Red, a speckledy black and white who is nervous and flies around a bit, some wyandottes and at least one other mystery hen. Most just started laying as hawks nearly wiped my flock out last year. I have 2 coopers hawks and a huge other hawk hanging around almost every day. Not sure what the big hawk is, larger and darker than a redtail, though.
I am almost ready to order some from Ideal.
I'll see what Zachary Feed is carrying but last year I had to order.
I'll be hunting some leghorns, hoping for brown ones, and probably some barred rocks and astralorps.
 
I was at zachary feed the other day getin stuff for work. Lance (the owner) also owns Sullivans hardware in central. We grew up together. He had leghorns and rhode islands then. He keeps the high production birds in stock, and if you want somethin else let him know he will get them as well.
 
The kypes (miniTure hawks) around my place dont mess with the big birds. But anytime i let the babies or pullets to graze i had to literally be outside with them 10 ft away.

now the small red breasted hawks will go after any of them, including the ducks. The large chicken hawk will only hit one then stay gone for several weeks.

coons aitn greedy. Whatever they can get
 
jus10inla said:
The kypes (miniTure hawks) around my place dont mess with the big birds. But anytime i let the babies or pullets to graze i had to literally be outside with them 10 ft away.

now the small red breasted hawks will go after any of them, including the ducks. The large chicken hawk will only hit one then stay gone for several weeks.

coons aitn greedy. Whatever they can get
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What is a "Kype"?
Cooper's Hawk
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Sharp-shinned Hawk
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They are almost identical to me so I am not 100% sure what's hanging out here but it is a pair so they are probably nesting. They are so persistent that I kept my baby goats under cover in the yard for their 1st week. I've only ever lost one baby goat to what may have been a hawk strike in 30+ years but I didn't want the birds to even think about it. I still have no idea what the bigger bird of prey is. A friend says it's an eagle but I don't know. It's the size of a turkey buzzard but no white on it's wings, the wing tips are smoother and it's dark brown. That bird and I have scared the heck out of each other a few times, I have walked up near it by accident while it was on the edge of the water trough and once next to the fence eating something. It is huge.
 
The coopers and the sharp shinned have different shaped heads but by the time I see them, find my binocs and figure out how to coordinate glasses, sun glare and binoculars...they notice I am outside and they leave the area.
:(
 
Giving up most of the free ranging has turned the egg yolks pale instead of the bright yellowy orange I had last year (prehawk)
 

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