Michigan

[RBahmer]

no wonder your neighbors mad... Your blinds are crooked.

I noticed that too LOL

 

[Juise]

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Juise, I have a tarp, and a jeep... Think I can manage. I will lay the seat down.

Sweet, just lemme know what time.

Raz - Love the pics.

 

[RaZ]

My blinds are crooked???
Please don't tell Martha Stewart!

I can fix it...I swear!

 

[NovaAman]

If they can get under it, to the coop, then you've got a potential problem. Landscape timbers... Tent stakes...

 

[NovaAman]

After noon. Jace gets on the bus at 12:10, so, after that.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

basketball hen looks *better* today, i took off the bandages finally. still a little puffy around the ankle, and by the one toe, but i think it's healing right this time.

Hasn't been laying steady though, so i am worrying whether this has affected her, or if she is thinking about brooding, since her belly was kinda bald. The other EE has been going in and out of the boxes too, so maybe i will have another hatch this summer yet! I would looooove to have one of my nice EE's raise a look alike chick to the one that died. My Orp. is settling down, but she's one that i wouldn't want to fall down around........................

DH's uncle lost a roo a couple days ago, the coons had been sniffing around. Mine are OK, i have a metal camper. Sucks about the windows, though. Would hardwire cloth work if a coon really wanted in?

I need to do something, right now i keep the windows closed at night, since there are now poles in the ground leading right up to them.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Sucks about the porcelain hatches, Btw. I was kinda wishing, but oh well. maybe next year. The du'ccle's do get bigger than a cockatiel, right???

 

[Juise]

Fuzzy - Hardware cloth is pretty tough. I do not think a raccoon could get through it as long it is attached strongly.

 

[Olive Hill]

If the coon wants in, the coon gets in. One particularly bad summer coons literally ripped bolts out of the side of a small coop to get the door open here. Yes, you read that right. We took to BOLTING THE DOOR SHUT every single night to keep them out, which worked... until they RIPPED THE BOLTS OUT OF THE SIDE OF THE COOP.

That said, hardware cloth is the most secure of the commonly used/available wires.

 

[Shamrock4]

I love broody hens. I have four right now and two more that are broody somewhere in the woods. My incubator turner broke so the four are all sitting on eggs that aren't theirs. There are modern game, silkie, runner duck, EE, bantam cross, and layer cross eggs. The bantam crosses are dominique/pheonix (they are actually half bantam half standard) or cochin/malay and I selectively breed them for broodies. Layer crosses are mostly black sex link/cochin bantam X dominique. I have two cochin/black sex link hens that are broody and they are the best broodies I've ever had. Also a dominique and a cochin bantam that are broody. The broodies in the woods are an australorp and a malay bantam. I need to find those two so I can hatch even more chicks! It is addicting.