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[Henicillin]

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Anybody have any recent hatched chicks? i hatched a single cochin out and she is very lonely, I am in Columbia County. i can meet at your house or a midway location.
Thanks!
Hencillin I can meet in nassau if you have any chicks!

I don't have any little-little ones at the moment, unfortunately - the youngest are about four weeks old now.

Paging Stony...

 

[rancher hicks]

Anybody have any recent hatched chicks? i hatched a single cochin out and she is very lonely, I am in Columbia County. i can meet at your house or a midway location.
Thanks!
Hencillin I can meet in nassau if you have any chicks!

I can't afford to drive anywhere, but I have a Birchen Marans chicks that is alone, otherwise you could have it. I have half a mind to move it into the office just so it's not lonely. (I guess at my age I should be glad to have any mind at all)

I also have two del chicks but they are too old to be put with the BM chick.

 

[rancher hicks]

Well something visited us again last night. Didn't get out in time. One hen missing it's head. Does that mean it is definitely a fox? Never seem to see it come or go. I have a few birds who manage to not stay in at night. The fence is very high but I was worried anyway. My husband (whose family once had a chicken farm) says, "Oh, they'll be safe roosting in a tree." Ha!!!! Apparently not, so today, he is (as we speak) buying chicken wire to cover the top. Why does it take a tragedy for men to take action? Or is it only mine!

Chickens don't see well in the dark and are very vulnerable. I just had to put one away (long story) but I just walked up to her and picked her up. I think it was a coon as my only attack and I caught it working on the chickens head.

I've received bad advice too and that's why the coon got in. Read the predators posts and you'll learn how to protect your flock as best you can.

Sorry for your loss.

Rancher

 

[stonykill]

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I don't have any little-little ones at the moment, unfortunately - the youngest are about four weeks old now.

Paging Stony...

nothing here. I never take any chicks from my broody's and the incubator has been off for months.

 

[rancher hicks]

I have to laugh at Meyers ad for " free chicks like us on Facebook."

Even without the incu going I got chicks. I don't even want them and I get chicks. You couldn't give me chicks if you brought them to my door.

I just sold two chicks for a dollar each but gave the guy a dozen eggs so that means I was in the hole two dollars and twenty five cents.

I should tell Meyers to like ME and I'll give them chicks.

 

[stonykill]

Well something visited us again last night. Didn't get out in time. One hen missing it's head. Does that mean it is definitely a fox? Never seem to see it come or go. I have a few birds who manage to not stay in at night. The fence is very high but I was worried anyway. My husband (whose family once had a chicken farm) says, "Oh, they'll be safe roosting in a tree." Ha!!!! Apparently not, so today, he is (as we speak) buying chicken wire to cover the top. Why does it take a tragedy for men to take action? Or is it only mine!

well foxes don't climb trees and they carry away the entire bird. Any coon or possum attack I ever had, the same, took the entire bird. Coons in my experience eat the entire bird, possums just the breast. Weasels kill and eat just the neck, usually. Sometimes they just kill and move on. But they are too small to carry the bird away. Set out a box trap with canned dog food as bait. If it is a coon or possum you will catch it. Then kill it. If the trap is flipped over and drug elsewhere, you have a fox too big to fit in the trap but it wanted the bait. Solution, bigger trap or lock up your birds. I too have many who can't, simply can't be penned. There are losses, no 2 ways about it. A chicken who is out all night has a shorter life expectancy than a penned chicken. Simple fact.

 

[Henicillin]

It seems as though we may be getting some nasty weather tomorrow, with high winds and heavy rains - better batten down the hatches! My biggest concern with high wind conditions is with the trees in the yard. I have several mature pines on the property, some of which could easily come down on the coop or on my house. Ugh.

 

[stonykill]

It seems as though we may be getting some nasty weather tomorrow, with high winds and heavy rains - better batten down the hatches! My biggest concern with high wind conditions is with the trees in the yard. I have several mature pines on the property, some of which could easily come down on the coop or on my house. Ugh.

my fingers are crossed that the weather guessers are wrong. They tend to be wrong a lot. hoping they are this time as well

 

[rancher hicks]

It seems as though we may be getting some nasty weather tomorrow, with high winds and heavy rains - better batten down the hatches! My biggest concern with high wind conditions is with the trees in the yard. I have several mature pines on the property, some of which could easily come down on the coop or on my house. Ugh.

We have one next door and I told the landlord who owns the house I would go half to cut it down but he didn't and if it falls on the house I will sue him.

There is one that worries me near the hoop coop. It won't stand the weight. Others I don't worry as there are no structures near them. Though it would mean buying a chain saw. I just don't want to maintain another tool.

I guess we'll have to keep our fingers crossed.

 

[java girl 2]

Is anybody interested in a Silver Ameraucana trio? I hatched them last year from Pips and Peeps. I have the breeders I want for next year so these need to go before winter time. Next is putting a ad on Craigslist, but I would rather not deal with that. $40 for the trio.

Hi, do you still have them? I PM you about them but I don't know if you got it!