North Carolina

[BHep]

For Fayetteville there is Southern Gin just around the corner from Family Farm. We use Champion Milling in Dunn on Edgerton St. and then there is Double LL tack and Feed in Coats who are even open on sundays. They are on Hwy 55.

OOOooooooooo love going in Double LL Tack. Love browsing ! But the guy out front is a little creepy

 

[marlowmanor]

Went to feed the chickens and look what I found!

It is a light green color. One of my EEs is finally laying! Now I am looking forward to the other 5 hens to start laying too. This one has already been eaten since my ODS decided to try to crack it when we got back from getting a couple groceries this evening.

This was actually after his attempt at cracking it open. The other side of it has the crack in it! Good thing homegrown chicken eggs have thicker shells!

 

[scottcaddy]

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I know that this is a few days old (been a bit busy here) Is there more then one Linden in NC?
I just have to ask<BG>

Scott

 

[dlockey]

I need help and advice, please. We have only had our chickens for about 6 months. About 2 months ago we found 1 young chicken dead something had torn off one leg. Then aobut a month ago, we lost a second one. She was in her yard, but pretty torn up. This evening I came home from work about 8 pm. And I found a pile of feathers from a RIR, and a dead BR. Our chickens have coops inside of large pens. Their coops have locks, but when I get home late, they are in their coops but not locked up until 8 or 9 pm.

I have looked for an entry point, or bent fence, but nothing. Can't find any tracks. there were only feathers in a pile, nothing else, no feathers anywhere else. I am so worried, We wanted them to have plenty of room , that is why they have pens and not runs.

What ever got them had to have done it just after dusk. Any ideas? Any help? My husband works contracts and is out of town a lot. So it is up to me to let the chickens out of their coops in the morning and put them up in the evening. I work 3 -4 days a week and get home late on those days. I feel soo guilty. We love these birds and am heartbroken about losing them!

 

[Country Chickens]

That is awesome! AND you saved yourself gas and a sunburn! Congrats! lol

Country Chickens I sold just about everything I was going to take to the swap yesterday - today without leaving home

 

[Country Chickens]

I am so sorry! That is just awful.

The problem now is that the predators have found you...it's my experience through listening ot friends/my sister that once they find a coop, you start losing more birds to different predators. It's like the word is out. Am I correct in understanding that the birds are in a pen without a top? Cause there are lots of things that will eat a chicken and can climb fences no problem. What I would do right now is either keep the birds closed in (assuming they wouldn't go crazy in their coops and their coops are secure) or borrow someone's chicken dog and put him with them until you can tighten security on the pens. That's the best I got. So, so sorry for your losses!

I need help and advice, please. We have only had our chickens for about 6 months. About 2 months ago we found 1 young chicken dead something had torn off one leg. Then aobut a month ago, we lost a second one. She was in her yard, but pretty torn up. This evening I came home from work about 8 pm. And I found a pile of feathers from a RIR, and a dead BR. Our chickens have coops inside of large pens. Their coops have locks, but when I get home late, they are in their coops but not locked up until 8 or 9 pm.

I have looked for an entry point, or bent fence, but nothing. Can't find any tracks. there were only feathers in a pile, nothing else, no feathers anywhere else. I am so worried, We wanted them to have plenty of room , that is why they have pens and not runs.

What ever got them had to have done it just after dusk. Any ideas? Any help? My husband works contracts and is out of town a lot. So it is up to me to let the chickens out of their coops in the morning and put them up in the evening. I work 3 -4 days a week and get home late on those days. I feel soo guilty. We love these birds and am heartbroken about losing them!

 

[Country Chickens]

Congrats on a great garden coming along and all kinds of good stuff hoping! Just to spread the word around these birds--and because my ears grew about six inches when you mentioned selling a cabinet bator--we are looking for a used Sportsman or Dickey's cabinet incubator. We'd prefer newer-ish, but we've been looking for awhile and the guineas are starting to lay more so...pm me if you hear of anything likely!

Today was too nice to be sitting in on the computer!

Today we got some of the garden planted. We have a 30x30 garden with two 4x8 boxes toward the front. The garden is now completely tilled and ready to plant. Today in the boxes we managed to put in onions, garlic, dill, spinach and lettuce. This week will be planting cabbage, sugar snaps, collards and who knows what else.

Earlier this week I got more raspberries in, cleaned it and the blackberry bed and trimmed and tied the grapes. Still have to trim apple & peach trees as they are already blooming. Oh and the rhubarb is already growing!!

Yesterday was a awesome day for me, sold a group of birds in the morning, sold the cabinet bator in the afternoon and had someone else come buy a pair of seramas before the day was over.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

I need help and advice, please. We have only had our chickens for about 6 months. About 2 months ago we found 1 young chicken dead something had torn off one leg. Then aobut a month ago, we lost a second one. She was in her yard, but pretty torn up. This evening I came home from work about 8 pm. And I found a pile of feathers from a RIR, and a dead BR. Our chickens have coops inside of large pens. Their coops have locks, but when I get home late, they are in their coops but not locked up until 8 or 9 pm.

I have looked for an entry point, or bent fence, but nothing. Can't find any tracks. there were only feathers in a pile, nothing else, no feathers anywhere else. I am so worried, We wanted them to have plenty of room , that is why they have pens and not runs.

What ever got them had to have done it just after dusk. Any ideas? Any help? My husband works contracts and is out of town a lot. So it is up to me to let the chickens out of their coops in the morning and put them up in the evening. I work 3 -4 days a week and get home late on those days. I feel soo guilty. We love these birds and am heartbroken about losing them!

How tall is your fence? does it have a top?

around dusk things I can think of are : hawk, owls, coyotes, cats, possums, coons, skunks, foxes, dog...

likely to get over a regular sized (4-5 ft) non topped fence: all of the above (except maybe skunks?)

most likely to tear off legs/ body parts and leave : coons, possums

though if its just piles/clumps of feathers and the middle cavity of the body has been torn into that makes me think a bird of prey...

If pen(s) are not topped, top them. Since there are hours when no one is home, and no dog around to deter predators - put a line of electric 6" above the ground and right at the top of the fence to deter both digging and climbing predators. if dusk/night time predators are the main issue you may think about investing in automatic pop door(s) that open and close as the sun rises/sets

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

If pen(s) are not topped, top them. Since there are hours when no one is home, and no dog around to deter predators - put a line of electric 6" above the ground and right at the top of the fence to deter both digging and climbing predators. if dusk/night time predators are the main issue you may think about investing in automatic pop door(s) that open and close as the sun rises/sets

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

If your pens are too big to top, run lots of plain wire across the top, and tie strips of cloth to it so they'll flap a bit. Won't stop a climber, but it often deters the fliers. Not pretty, but....

If it turns out to be hawks, I got those befuddled putting hides out in the pasture for the chickens. Just something the chickens can run under when they see the hawk but they're too far from the henhouse. I had a big female redtail one year that was herding them out away from the henhouse to get chickens and muscovies. She was taking one every other day until I built hides (mine were simply pairs of pallets in an upside down V form) Within a week of me putting them up, she moved on.

Gotta try all kinds of fun things to protect our birds and other livestock. The wildlife think (understandably so) that there's a smorgasbord there just for them.