Minnesota!

[lalaland]

@Cluckies , I love the block work on your run. I"ve never seen that....it is in lieu of digging a couple feet down with fencing to keep something from digging in? Really looks good.

@NikonD2xer , I know, right? IT is as if the skunks are coming out of the woodwork. Not sure why you were hesitant to shoot in your doorway.....a friend distressed her partner when she heard a noise in the cupboard under the kitchen sink. Opened the door, saw a muskrat, shut the door, got a gun, opened and fired. Killed the thing, but her partner was pretty upset about the holes....and the fact that the gasline was right there,....

So now we joke when we see Joan - we say, remember, no shooting in the house! Joan says it was the logical thing to do, if she had opened the cupboard door to chase it out of the house it would have been everywhere, and she couldn't just leave it in there. To this day she says she would do it again!

anyway, no sign of the fox that took grace. I've kept the flock locked up in the run ( its plenty big). A good section of it is overrun with goldenrod and some other weed - so thick the hens can't get through it. So I was weed pulling to provide more space and that's a chore with chickens at your feet and on your boots, trying to get the worms etc that you are up rooting. Makes you afraid to shift your feet or take a step!

 

[lalaland]

oops double post. spotty internet connections do that!

 

[NikonD2xer]

I didn't want to shoot that close with a 12 gauge because of the smell being so intense for so long.
I don't mind the smell most of the time, I used to use skunk scent when bow hunting as a cover scent.
Guess that is why I get volunteered to remove any critter that dad traps or shoots.

Maybe it was because my grandpa was going to shoot out the door at a wood chuck one time and the wind took the door and bumped him as he shot. Missed the wood chuck but bagged himself the buick parked out side door.


lalaland, I hope you can get what took grace before you lose any more.

 

[cottonlouie]

That's how I roll....espresso, Chihuahua, and chickens

 

[lalaland]

That's how I roll....espresso, Chihuahua, and chickens

life is good, isn't it?

 

[Cebarmlds]

30 pages of posts! Forget it, I'm going to bed.

Hey Aussiegal, do your Aussies round up the chickens for you? I have a mini Aussie and wish she would help but she doesn't know what to do and I don't know how to teach her. I am sure it's my fault not knowing how to train her! Seems like there is always one chicken that won't go inside when I want them to!

 

[The BlanchRanch]

I didn't want to shoot that close with a 12 gauge because of the smell being so intense for so long.
I don't mind the smell most of the time, I used to use skunk scent when bow hunting as a cover scent.
Guess that is why I get volunteered to remove any critter that dad traps or shoots.

Maybe it was because my grandpa was going to shoot out the door at a wood chuck one time and the wind took the door and bumped him as he shot. Missed the wood chuck but bagged himself the buick parked out side door.


lalaland, I hope you can get what took grace before you lose any more.

You guys have a whole different set of problems then I do living in hell. These stories are one of the best parts about this thread.

 

[lalaland]

Anyone know whats up with this?

Couple years ago, I had a welsummer who had patches of feathers missing on her chest, sides, etc. Not molting. Bare patches of skin. If you looked real close, you could see a few feather shafts(the quill part) bare of the feathering stuff - at the edges of the bare patches. center was just skin, all feathers gone. I decided that this must be feather mites. Couldn't see anything, but...something was chewing on the feathers. I thought it was weird that it was patchy, and that she was the only one in the flock affected. Nevertheless, I did a sulphur dip bath for the flock, followed by another one a few weeks later. It seemed as if it stopped the problem. Fall came, she molted, came back fine.

Two years later, this summer....problem reappears. Same hen, or at least another welsummer.

Again, no other chickens showing this.

Also this spring, Seaquist started sporting two slashes at either side of her neck. feathers cut off at base.



I've heard mice will nibble? I considered whether this was beard/muff nibbling (my ee's apparently have been shaving from the looks of it), but Seaquist roosts in a different room.

 

[Cluckies]

I would like to know who gave directions to my house to every skunk in Minnesota.

Tonight I heard some scratching on the back door, thinking it was my nomad tom cat, I opened the door.
Dang skunk fell into the door way. I thought it was going to come all the way into the house.
After regaining my composure I grabbed the shotgun. It hadn't moved ten feet. I couldn't shoot it with a 12 gauge that close to the house.
It would not run away no matter what i did. I had to go back in the house and get the 22 revolver.
There had to be something wrong with this one, I was less than 3 feet away from it when i shot it.

That makes 8 skunks since the mention of the critters on here 5 or 6 days ago.

No more PLEASE !!!!!

Holy cow! It's skunk Zombies!

 

[Cluckies]

I didn't want to shoot that close with a 12 gauge because of the smell being so intense for so long.
I don't mind the smell most of the time, I used to use skunk scent when bow hunting as a cover scent.
Guess that is why I get volunteered to remove any critter that dad traps or shoots.

Maybe it was because my grandpa was going to shoot out the door at a wood chuck one time and the wind took the door and bumped him as he shot. Missed the wood chuck but bagged himself the buick parked out side door.


lalaland, I hope you can get what took grace before you lose any more.

OMG, you're killing me, lol