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[bethanyrae]

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I use a sprinkler attachment on my hose for herding chickens!

And IT'S RAINING!!!!!!! I almost got the whole lawn mowed before it started. Got pretty wet.

 

[wyliefarms]

Good afternoon!

Doesn't look like the varmit came back last night. Jon came in at 3am from his last inspection. At 6:30 this morning: The small live trap was slid over and the cat food eaten off the ground...note to self, put something heavy on it tonight. The large live trap was not where I put it last night! Found it behind the coop about 5-10 feet away with a really big raccoon in it. He had pulled a tarp into the trap with him. Lead poisioning soon to follow.

Keep cool and have a great afternoon!

 

[bethanyrae]

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Congratulations on your catch!
Pulled in a tarp? Probably the way they pull our chickens through wire fencing, eh?
I've heard some coons will tear those cages apart getting out of them. Glad you got 'im.

 

[briana1975]

We thought it was hot up north in Indian River and Grayling. Then we got home last night and opened the truck door and got a huge smack in the face with this awful heat. I wish I was up north again in the upper 80's to low 90's.

Poor mama hen got stressed due to the heat and started pecking her chick. Now both chicks are in the house in a brooder. They were peeping their fool heads off for mama hen. I put an old stuffed animal in there and they snuggled under it and fell asleep.

HBH I am so happy to hear your FIL is doing better.

Sarah I do not have any Japanese Bantams. I have some Gold Laced Sebrights.

 

[Bluemoon420]

Sorry to hear about Rachel's bantams Sarah.

Cassidy just got a blue Japanese bantam, golden sebright, and a red phoenix hens. They are laying, and are fertile eggs. If she wants any let us know. We also have some silkie eggs due to hatch Wednesday. Let us know if we can help in any way.


Bluemoon

 

[Mom 2em All]

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No! They HATE the sprinkler and the ducks love it. However, the sprinkler cools down the coop, and the air etc so they are forced to endure it for a little while- they dont have to be IN the falling water- plenty of places the sprinkler doesnt reach that they can go....besides, the sprinkler gives them something to cluck about...lol.

Opa, be careful with the coyote..and those guns. Wouldnt want you to shoot yourself in the foot or nothin like that.

Wyliefarms! Good luck! Hope you catch the smaller varmint!

 

[wyliefarms]

just got in for tucking everyone in. the girls and I didn't get home til 11:30pm. They were working on their fair ceramic projects in Brighton. They are done so one more thing checked off the list

Missing our BO with the amputated wing. She wasn't in the coop and we searched for her. hope she is ok and makes it through the night.

Traps are set with the trusty cat food. The coon did a number on the large trap. Hope to catch some more varmits and clean house with them!


The rain was fabulous today! Glad I don't have to water the garden for a few days!

Thank you for the offers of eggs and birds. Rachel and I are going tomorrow to look at a lady's flock. She is a friend of mine and offered a pair to Rachel so she can still enter that class in the fair. So I will let you guys know tomorrow night.

Good night all!

Sarah

 

[Ooopsy_daisy]

GotChicken? :

Wyliefarms: I'm so terribly sorry about your bantams. Your Rachel must be absolutely devastated.

Are you sure there is no other place the weasels could have gotten in from? If the holes you described are the diameter of a quarter, that seems too small for an adult weasel to get through; their skulls would be bigger than the hole. So maybe young ones, or an extremely clever adult? Hope you find a solution. A weasel decimated my small flock when I was a kid, and it took me twenty odd years to start raising them again because it was so heartbreaking.

A weasel can get through a hole the size of a hot dog. Dont let them fool you. Board up any small holes or they will come back until everything is gone.​

 

[Ooopsy_daisy]

HBH if you didnt live so far, I would take them all for meat producers. I have a huge hay barn with a basement that is excellent for raising rabbits and Id like to put meat in the freezer come next spring. (not butcher those but use for breeders)

If anyone is coming this way that can bring them a tad closer I'll take'em all.

 

[briana1975]

Good morning. So glad we got a little rain yesterday. When we left last Friday my grass was nice and green. When we got back on Wednesday is was very brown.

I have someone starting to lay tiny eggs in the bantam coop. I haven't figured out who yet. It looks like my serama eggs I get. Does anyone know how early Sebrights start laying?