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My second wayward hen flew the pen this morning. *grumble*

We caught her and clipped her wings so close that she won't be able to pick her nose for quite a while.
 
@KlopKlop If the guts were eaten, I would look for an opossum. I have had one out here wandering around the last couple of weeks. You can pick out the tracks with the tell tale scalping in the snow by its tail. I think I have had a fox out around the property too, just like your tracks, too long for a cat, feet not quite big enough for a dog or yote. The fences are up and all but 4 birds are in closed pens.

@lalaland The feather mites chew off the barbs from the quill. This is the worst I have seen them. His feathers looked greasy. Normally you will see a bad infestation on a sick bird. He is perfectly fine now that I treated him, acting downright spunky yesterday even. I treated all the girls when I split him out too to make sure I didn't have the whole flock of NH getting them. I need to get some Sevin in the bedding too to make double sure there isn't some of them crawling around in the pen. It is tough avoiding all creepy crawlies in my case because I unfortunately do have wild sparrows getting into the coop and the pen. The coop, I am assuming, they are coming into the end of the ridge vent. The runs have 4" openings where the roof meets the south side framing.

It looks like the end of this week is going to be hovering just above freezing, and a week later we will have single digit highs. We will get normal winter weather after all. I just hate the wind when it gets that low. I think my birds will tough it through. I did lose a Cornish rooster yesterday, but it wasn't the cold. When I set up the bachelor pen, he got beat up and then got sick after than when his defenses were down. I had been treating him, but I wasn't sure he would make it right from the start. It was one of the WLR roosters. I have debated keeping the WLRs but every time I think much on it, I come out keeping them. I am hopelessly entrenched in my addiction.
 
The BlanchRanch said:
I am going to miss the Goldie stories but I am happy she is doing so much better that she got to re-enter the flock.

Did you catch anything Klop?? This will be interesting. 


Yes. In front of the TV is about right.
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Traps were empty tonight. I will set them again tonight as evening lockup and will be setting my trail cam as well. In case it is something too big for my trap
 
Minniechickmama said:
@KlopKlop
 If the guts were eaten, I would look for an opossum.  I have had one out here wandering around the last couple of weeks.  You can pick out the tracks with the tell tale scalping in the snow by its tail.  I think I have had a fox out around the property too, just like your tracks, too long for a cat, feet not quite big enough for a dog or yote.  The fences are up and all but 4 birds are in closed pens.

@lalaland
 The feather mites chew off the barbs from the quill.  This is the worst I have seen them.  His feathers looked greasy.  Normally you will see a bad infestation on a sick bird.  He is perfectly fine now that I treated him, acting downright spunky yesterday even.  I treated all the girls when I split him out too to make sure I didn't have the whole flock of NH getting them.  I need to get some Sevin in the bedding too to make double sure there isn't some of them crawling around in the pen.  It is tough avoiding all creepy crawlies in my case because I unfortunately do have wild sparrows getting into the coop and the pen.  The coop, I am assuming, they are coming into the end of the ridge vent.  The runs have 4" openings where the roof meets the south side framing.


It looks like the end of this week is going to be hovering just above freezing, and a week later we will have single digit highs.  We will get normal winter weather after all.  I just hate the wind when it gets that low.  I think my birds will tough it through.  I did lose a Cornish rooster yesterday, but it wasn't the cold.  When I set up the bachelor pen, he got beat up and then got sick after than when his defenses were down.  I had been treating him, but I wasn't sure he would make it right from the start.  It was one of the WLR roosters.  I have debated keeping the WLRs but every time I think much on it, I come out keeping them.  I am hopelessly entrenched in my addiction.
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I can see how you keep them. They are gorgeous birds.
Thinking of them... How old are the ones I got from you? I have seen them coming out of the nest box several times recently and I'm not sure if they are laying or not. Hard to tell with the number of birds into their pen.
 
KlopKlop said:
I can see how you keep them. They are gorgeous birds.
Thinking of them... How old are the ones I got from you? I have seen them coming out of the nest box several times recently and I'm not sure if they are laying or not. Hard to tell with the number of birds into their pen.
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I would have to dig out my records, but their sisters (the younger ones) are laying now, just in the last couple of weeks. I have been getting a handful of Cornish eggs for a couple of weeks from all but one pen. They will be smaller eggs, their pullet eggs are about the size of a bantam egg, then they only lay about a medium sized one once they mature more.
The one with the blackish legs is an older girl and from 2014 hatch. I think one other was as well?
They are neat birds, very different from other breeds in very many ways.
 

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