Michigan

[babigyrl22]

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LOL! Nova! You can't threaten the lives of the neighborhood kids. Crazy lady.

I know how you feel though. Between the young kids snooping around in my backyard to feed my chickens God knows what and the deliquent teenagers that cause actual property damage....I can understand how you can lose it. Some teenagers thought it was quite funny to rip out my neighbors garden bed and stuff it in her mailbox...for fun. Then we had to talk with some boys down the street about how it's probably not a good idea to hit golfballs across your neighbors backyards...in that it could cause damage or hit a small child. After the 4th conversation about that the police were called my neighbor was thanked by a good old fashioned TP.

We also have to watch the new houses that haven't been sold yet...the teens like to break in and have "parties". We catch them walking around like a pack of wolves in the dark. The snots.

Let me catch them again. I'll organize a super soaker drive by and hit them where it hurts.....their precious cell phones. mwahahahahahaha.

 

[babigyrl22]

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Bob!

Welcome! Howdydo?

 

[hickchick55]

I got a new record today 96 grams. How is it that the smallest chicken can lay the biggest egg?

 

[1muttsfan]

Hickchick I love your little egg dish. My bantam cochin pullets lay the tiniest little eggs, they are so cute when fried.

37 degrees here this morning, brrr, frost on the car but fortunately not in the garden. first frost here us usually in early October, so we are ahead of schedule. Still hoping to get more that 3 patty pan squashes off the plants.

 

[hickchick55]

Thanks. I bought that plate on eBay just for pics like that (and deviled eggs, if I ever have any old enough to peel). No frost here either. I brought all the house plants in the other day- my study sure gets small when the 4 foot jades come in off the porch. In my next life I want a sunroom.

 

[uchytil]

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I went to the Raptor Rehabilitation Center in Twin Lake the other day, what a great learning experience. Anyway, accordig to the experts, the only real threat to the chickens are Red-Tailed Hawks, the others only take small rodents and such. The Red-Tailed Hawk is the big one that all the movies use for voice-overs for Eagles since Eagles don't make any screaming niose just little barks. The Red-Tailed can take rabbits and larger birds (chickens). I'll bet you're seeing a Sparrow Hawk or Falcon (pointed wings) where the Coopers, Sharp-Shinned, and Red-tailed have a more rounded wing. My buddies wife came home one night to see a RT Hawk in the chicken run it somehow crawled in through a hole and had a heck of a time getting out, no chickens were lost cause they all scampered into the coop.

 

[NovaAman]

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I know, I told the cops the only gun I had was a watergun, and He said I couldn't do that either, cuz its assualt...

Yes Olive, I know, I am the adult, or supposed to be. I was just SO VERY TICKED OFF! Did I learn a lesson? Well, I guess. DO I feel bad for threatening the little turds? Heck NO. Would I do it again? No, But I would jump in my car and chase their little rear ends all the way to their house and beat the crap out of their mother with a vocal whipping! Then go to their apt manager and tell them that the kids in that apt are being destructive to neighboring properties and try and get them kicked out. Half a mind to follow them home next time I see them and duct tape their doors shut so they can't get out. I am a redneck hillbilly thru and thru. I know how to use duct tape and use it well.

 

[NovaAman]

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Yeah, they do. But the officer believed me, and went back to tell the parents my version and that I caught them at it. He asked how many I had, and what types and when I told him what i saw then do, he was even mad about it. I told him the kids didn't see me there and when I yelled they freaked and had the "OH CRAP" look and took off. If they were just trying to get the chickens back in my yard like they told the cop, then why did they chase them with the bikes?

Welcome Bob

 

[chicken grandma]

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I went to the Raptor Rehabilitation Center in Twin Lake the other day, what a great learning experience. Anyway, accordig to the experts, the only real threat to the chickens are Red-Tailed Hawks, the others only take small rodents and such. The Red-Tailed Hawk is the big one that all the movies use for voice-overs for Eagles since Eagles don't make any screaming niose just little barks. The Red-Tailed can take rabbits and larger birds (chickens). I'll bet you're seeing a Sparrow Hawk or Falcon (pointed wings) where the Coopers, Sharp-Shinned, and Red-tailed have a more rounded wing. My buddies wife came home one night to see a RT Hawk in the chicken run it somehow crawled in through a hole and had a heck of a time getting out, no chickens were lost cause they all scampered into the coop.

I had a Coopers Hawk land and walk in my chicken door. Into my coop. I ran out there when I heard my hens screaming but the hawk had tore the wing off my 7 year old hen. The hawk flew out the open door as I ran in. I had the vet euthanize my hen as she was quite arthritic. Her wing was torn where it met her body and was beyond repair. Then I covered my run so nothing can walk in the chicken door.
I saw the Coopers Hawk come back a few times, land and walk around the coop/run looking for a way in. Do not underestimate these hawks. My hen was a 5 lb. Rhode Island Red and I found the hawk on top of her, ripping into her.

 

[1muttsfan]

There are definately more hawks than just redtails interested in chickens - the one that bounced off the netting over my run was a young marsh hawk.