Minnesota!

[scandiafowl]

Chicago. Riotfest.

Bummer, great lineup.

 

[duluthralphie]

my poor puppy hurt her leg and is all layed up she didnt even want to get off the couch and help with chores this morning like usual. Her upper back leg is all puffy and she isnt putting much weight on it. hopefully it is just a pulled muscle or something.

Any idea how she did it?

 

[Rhetts]

These are taken today. Can they still say coyote?

 

[duluthralphie]

Bummer, great lineup.

Again I have to differ with you on that one.




For those of you living I cities, do they allow turkeys?


A turkey hen would seem to me to be the perfect city bird. They are quiet, they would not even need a fence or pen because they seldom leave the house area. The area my chickens wander is 5 times more than my turkeys. Turkeys love decks. They would be right behind Roger at the drive up window. I have to chase them to get them to go 50 feet.

 

[duluthralphie]

These are taken today. Can they still say coyote?

They can and most likely will say coyote still, but in their heart of hearts they will know they are lying.

Good luck with them. Sorry to see it is back. Did it get any last night?

 

[KlopKlop]

Any idea how she did it?

she was out running and chasing in the hay field last night with our hound and then my wife took them on a walk. by the time they got back she was moving slowly and hobbling.

No noticeable yelps or anything in that time or anything.

 

[KlopKlop]

These are taken today. Can they still say coyote?

anything on the game camera?

 

[scandiafowl]

I appreciate Eagles as a deterrent to hawks.  The Eagles and Turkey Vultures around means that hawks will clear the area.  I have not lost a chicken to an Eagle, but I have lost many chickens to hawks.  Goshawk is the worst for me, and they will stay the winter to terrorize the flock.
If an Eagle were to take a bird occasionally I could live with that.
I don't like any type of wolf and consider the Gray Wolf to be the worst.  In prior times they may have served a purpose to keep certain animal populations in check? They  may even serve that purpose now in remote Canada, Alaska and Siberia?
In the continental U.S. they are a problem animal.  The ranchers in the mountain West and Yellowstone area could relate enthusiastically the damage done there by their reintroduction by well intended, supposedly well educated wildlife managers.  They don't only kill to eat, but also kill for sport, and they have overrun Yellowstone Park and the surrounding regions.
I know some will protest these statements, but the facts are the facts.  They are not a very attractive animal whose howl is considered a spiritual sound by some?
I may change my thinking related to them if they were to establish packs in urban areas where they could clean up the gene pool by elimination of the less than adequately intelligent?
I also think that each member of "Howling For Wolves" should be required to keep two on the loose in their yard or apartment, which would work wonders for that organization.   

Wolves do not hunt for sport, and their presence provides ecological "culling" of weak and old prey, deer, moose and such.

Typical arrogance of man, the farmers and ranchers encroach on lands that for thousands of years was wolf territory, populate it with easy prey for any carnivore and then act indignant when their herds are attacked.
Wolves, predators, are not capable of instinctively discerning the difference between a cow and a deer. Just like a deer does not understand that running in front of a car will kill them.
Killing off a predator in an ecological food chain can have a detrimental effect on prey populations, including winter die-offs and increased disease.

 

[ejb3810]

That appears to be a small Gray Wolf track? It could be one that has been eliminated from the pack, and if such it would need to find food which it could handle alone.
Unfortunately they are not dumb and can recognize a good opportunity to find food. This will in all likelihood be an ongoing visitor unless something happens to it?

 

[Minniechickmama]

ow! I hate the idea of no crow collars, seems just as bad as no bark collars. At least you can train a dog about barking...a rooster, maybe not (although that would be something to see).

anyone remember the chickens at paul bunyanland in brainerd or was it bemidji? there was a box with a glass front, and inside was a chicken. You put a quarter in and it lit up a light, the chicken pecked and out came a kernal of corn. that had to be back in the 60's.... anyway, you can train chickens, although I haven't the faintest idea of how

Maybe I have told the beginning of this before, I can't remember.
I had a little customer come out this Summer to get 3 pullets: a New Hampshire, a Cochin and a Welsummer. She had suffered seizures her whole 9-years of life and the docs finally figured out the source and she is doing much better. She wanted to do something to help the other people at her clinic with chronic medical issues, so she decided to raise therapy chickens. Within a week, she had already begun clicker training the birds. Last they checked in with me, the pullets were all thoroughly spoiled and come running as soon as they hear the clicker. LOL The biggest surprise is that the Cochin is the ring leader in the little trio!
I have seen videos of trained chickens, and I believe they can easily be trained to do some things. I know when I bring the red bucket in winter with cracked corn around, they KNOW they are getting the goodies, and I would venture a guess I could probably teach them (one at a time) to do little tricks. However, I think it would be a very, very far stretch to think you could send a chicken off to run an obstacle course or something more complex than a one command 'trick'. Still, if people have time to spend training a chicken, all the power to them. The only tricks I want them to do, is lay an egg every day and find their way to the coop at night without me having to round them up.