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Coyotes are cool, agreed. Have you considered trapping? The DNR sent me an email last week or so, you can take the Trapper Ed Course online, although I do not believe it is required in MI. Just thinking about preserving that pelt. There's a lot to know about trapping!
Just FYI, here's info from the 2013 Michigan Hunting and Trapping Digest (Season Dates and Bag Limits). For clarity, Behind the glare, Note #1 reads: "Racoon and Coyote may be taken on private property...if they are doing or about to do damage..." There are 3 additional pages in the Digest regarding Non-Lethal Cable Restraints and Nighttime.
Opa will do what he feels he needs to regarding the coyote and his livestock, he is aware of the laws...
You know, sometimes I just LOVE technology. There is a woman who posts every "lost pet" ad that she can find onto the facebook page of the rescue I foster for. About 3 weeks ago I saw an ad she linked for a lost white husky......which, to be honest is a common occurence around here.....husky's wander and lots of people around here have them. Well, TODAY, on local re-sell sight, someone posted that their friend had FOUND a white husky. Apparently it's the missing dog, and after almost a month of being missing, his owner is coming to pick him up. YAY!
I bought a bushel of apples today, and am busy making apple sauce this afternoon. I think I'll only do half of them today, and hopefully the other half tomorrow. I'm running out of space in my freezer with all the chicken, tomato sauce, sweet cherries, and peaches we've gotten this year! We will be picking up a chest freezer within the next month hopefully because we we get a deer, we have no place to put the meat.
Chickens are molting....down to 6 eggs a day out of 15 birds.
I bought a bushel of apples today, and am busy making apple sauce this afternoon. I think I'll only do half of them today, and hopefully the other half tomorrow. I'm running out of space in my freezer with all the chicken, tomato sauce, sweet cherries, and peaches we've gotten this year! We will be picking up a chest freezer within the next month hopefully because we we get a deer, we have no place to put the meat.
Chickens are molting....down to 6 eggs a day out of 15 birds.
My 1 roo (Roo) will b heading there most likely Friday. Kinda feel what ya mean. My first chickens..raised since a day old...but it must be done
But I will admit to whimping out. Letting my Honey take him up ....
So ever since I lost the Jersey buff tom turkey to raccoons, I've been feeling sorry for the remaining Royal Palm turkey. The two toms used to hang out with each other and occasionally fuss, but mostly try to out-handsome each other. Now Gilbert is reduced to trying to romance the geese, and they just do not fully appreciate his good looks.
In fact, it's downright sad how he follows the goosers around continually, and they pointedly ignore him. So I've been half keeping my eye out for a likely-looking turkey hen or two, but knowing that I also need a new coop if I'm adding new turkeys. (Currently Gilbert coops up with the chickens, and after he healed up from his raccoon attack, he has gone in willingly at dusk every night, which impresses me greatly with his ability to learn). So I have lately been researching building a hoop coop with cattle panels, because it just might be within my skill set. But I haven't actually gotten anywhere with doing it. So Gilbert continues his hopeless pursuit of those adorable geese.
Then a week and a half ago I got an email from one of the neighbors on the road. Seems her back-fence neighbor had come back from vacation and found a white peahen had moved onto their property! And hee, hee, I am strangely enough the only one anyone knows anywhere around with any poultry at all. So suddenly I am the "expert." Ha! But of course I do have a secret weapon. I know exactly what to do. Who ya gonna call? BYC, of course! I posted over at the Peafowl area. And, no surprise, a bunch of super helpful peeps walked me through the whole thing. Here's the thread if anyone is that interested in the details:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/821869/stray-peafowl-reported-need-advice
But for anyone who just wants the short version, we were able to catch her and she is in quarantine in my barn right now. And she is quite lovely.
If her original owner can't be found (the neighbor did try several different ways to find the owner with no luck but someone still might claim her I suppose) I am happy to keep her. But now I have two singletons that need friends of their own kind. But she's soooo pretty!!!! Anyway, if anyone knows of any especially friendly hen turkeys or peahens (I'm thinking I'll stick with another girl) keep me in mind, and I'll try to get in gear on the housing situation here....
In fact, it's downright sad how he follows the goosers around continually, and they pointedly ignore him. So I've been half keeping my eye out for a likely-looking turkey hen or two, but knowing that I also need a new coop if I'm adding new turkeys. (Currently Gilbert coops up with the chickens, and after he healed up from his raccoon attack, he has gone in willingly at dusk every night, which impresses me greatly with his ability to learn). So I have lately been researching building a hoop coop with cattle panels, because it just might be within my skill set. But I haven't actually gotten anywhere with doing it. So Gilbert continues his hopeless pursuit of those adorable geese.
Then a week and a half ago I got an email from one of the neighbors on the road. Seems her back-fence neighbor had come back from vacation and found a white peahen had moved onto their property! And hee, hee, I am strangely enough the only one anyone knows anywhere around with any poultry at all. So suddenly I am the "expert." Ha! But of course I do have a secret weapon. I know exactly what to do. Who ya gonna call? BYC, of course! I posted over at the Peafowl area. And, no surprise, a bunch of super helpful peeps walked me through the whole thing. Here's the thread if anyone is that interested in the details:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/821869/stray-peafowl-reported-need-advice
But for anyone who just wants the short version, we were able to catch her and she is in quarantine in my barn right now. And she is quite lovely.
If her original owner can't be found (the neighbor did try several different ways to find the owner with no luck but someone still might claim her I suppose) I am happy to keep her. But now I have two singletons that need friends of their own kind. But she's soooo pretty!!!! Anyway, if anyone knows of any especially friendly hen turkeys or peahens (I'm thinking I'll stick with another girl) keep me in mind, and I'll try to get in gear on the housing situation here....
Love the hand map artwork!
Even raising chicks from day 1, I was okay having them processed. That is why they were all named after dinner dishes. I only had to process the roos and then only once they started to crow. It is part of the experience.
York, if you need help with a new house I can help. PM me if you like.
I went to the ag meeting today in Benton Harbor. Met another BYCer and she gave a very good presentation to the commissioners. In the past year, many of us BYCers have commented to the commissioners in person regarding our right to own poultry. Keep up the good work with calls and e-mails.
Chick update: Saturday is healthy and strong and doing well. Sunday is healthy but has a splay leg that I treated today when I got home. Shelly did not survive. Tuesday hatched yesterday but seems very weak. I have been providing water with a syringe, trying to keep her hydrated. It is still not standing on its own so I am concerned about it's survival. Three eggs have not progressed at all.
Even raising chicks from day 1, I was okay having them processed. That is why they were all named after dinner dishes. I only had to process the roos and then only once they started to crow. It is part of the experience.
York, if you need help with a new house I can help. PM me if you like.
I went to the ag meeting today in Benton Harbor. Met another BYCer and she gave a very good presentation to the commissioners. In the past year, many of us BYCers have commented to the commissioners in person regarding our right to own poultry. Keep up the good work with calls and e-mails.
Chick update: Saturday is healthy and strong and doing well. Sunday is healthy but has a splay leg that I treated today when I got home. Shelly did not survive. Tuesday hatched yesterday but seems very weak. I have been providing water with a syringe, trying to keep her hydrated. It is still not standing on its own so I am concerned about it's survival. Three eggs have not progressed at all.
May have lost a chicken. Haven't lost a layer in the year and a half of chicken-keeping (a couple of chicks died unexpectedly this spring but losing a layer is different) but I counted 19 on the roost this evening and there's supposed to be 20. I'm almost certain she wandered into the corn field and I don't expect she'll be back. WHYandotte. I'm not terribly upset - never been attached to the wyandottes much - just po'ed that if that's what happened that the fox we know to be living out there will come looking for more. In fact, I was po'ed when my neighbor let the fox get his because he was drawing the predators closer to my property so this would just be the icing on the cake.
We're finally getting the foundation near finished on the new coop (which will have a new and larger enclosed run) so hopefully next fall, we won't be having this issue with chickens being drawn to the field. What's happening is that the deer are knocking down the field corn and the chickens are going out there to scavenge it. They can't resist and I can't keep them out of it. If they're confined to the run and coop they stop laying eggs, cold turkey, full-on egg strike. Then there's no point unless I get a hankering for chicken stew.
Ah well, so it goes.
Thanks for all the compliments on the picture.
We're finally getting the foundation near finished on the new coop (which will have a new and larger enclosed run) so hopefully next fall, we won't be having this issue with chickens being drawn to the field. What's happening is that the deer are knocking down the field corn and the chickens are going out there to scavenge it. They can't resist and I can't keep them out of it. If they're confined to the run and coop they stop laying eggs, cold turkey, full-on egg strike. Then there's no point unless I get a hankering for chicken stew.
Ah well, so it goes.
Thanks for all the compliments on the picture.
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Lady, your chickens will certainly lay eggs when confined - it may take them a little time to adjust, but they will.
Thank you, Mary, for the article. Positive publicity like "Beaks and Books" needs to be shared.
Hatched chick, Sunday, has been hobble for splay and seems to be doing well with the treatment, s/he is moving, eating and drinking quite well.
New eggling, Tuesday, is weak but will drink from the syringe and I have been coddling and holding it off and on all evening. Silly chick relaxes and falls asleep in my hand while holding it against my chest. I am holding on to hope for this little one.
Hatched chick, Sunday, has been hobble for splay and seems to be doing well with the treatment, s/he is moving, eating and drinking quite well.
New eggling, Tuesday, is weak but will drink from the syringe and I have been coddling and holding it off and on all evening. Silly chick relaxes and falls asleep in my hand while holding it against my chest. I am holding on to hope for this little one.
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