NY chicken lover!!!!

[Gramma Chick]

Quote: Look a Like a Igloo ...LOL

 

[Gramma Chick]

Train them early ..I can watch this 100 times ...SOO CuTE

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=573544669450540

 

[Pyxis]

I'm down two more cockerels - but this time it's a good thing! They're going to live with a coworker of mine. One silkie and one ayam cemani cull. They will have a flock of over 30 hens all to themselves, lucky boys. So that will leave me with just four cockerels that need to be rehomed or eventually eaten. One I think will be easy - he's a frizzle olive egger, so he's interesting enough that someone will probably want him. The other three are buff orp mixes and might not find homes so easily, but I'll still try.

 

[tao chick]

I'm down two more cockerels - but this time it's a good thing! They're going to live with a coworker of mine. One silkie and one ayam cemani cull. They will have a flock of over 30 hens all to themselves, lucky boys. So that will leave me with just four cockerels that need to be rehomed or eventually eaten. One I think will be easy - he's a frizzle olive egger, so he's interesting enough that someone will probably want him. The other three are buff orp mixes and might not find homes so easily, but I'll still try.

Excellent!
I was going to process today- it might be postponed again.

 

[rancher hicks]

FYI, Minnesota produces the most turkeys.

 

[rancher hicks]

So I was out starting a fire in the "way back" and noticed a shadow go over me. It was a hawk or Falcon. I yelled and it moved on, but my point is this.

I use the feed bags to stuff with burnable stuff like papers, milk cartons, etc. etc. and then use that to start my fires. So that's #1 way to recycle those papers and feed bags.

Then when the stuff is burned you take the ashes and dump those in the garden, one the compost or in your chickens dusting box. That's the #2 way to recycled stuff.

#3 When you are outside the aerial predators see you and the smoke and flames and move on. You can of course yell or sing loudly. Make your presence known.

If you're a smoker it's a good time to take a walk out back.

If you're a man it's a good reason to take a walk and "mark" your territory. Don't forget to recycle those pants by stapling them to a tree and "marking" them too. This is a male only thing.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

My poor chickens are going stir crazy. We have had a flock of hawks flying over head for 3 days now. Is it illegal to shoot a hawk if it attacks your flock?

 

[boskelli1571]

My poor chickens are going stir crazy. We have had a flock of hawks flying over head for 3 days now. Is it illegal to shoot a hawk if it attacks your flock?

Short answer - yes. Try using streamers, CDs', scary eyes etc. anything that will move and distract them - they get nervous and think predator. They should be gone in a couple of days, likely they are migrating.

 

[rancher hicks]

What did we do before tablets and the internet? Gramma is making pies while Donovan watches cartoons. They're in some foreign language we don't understand but he's happy. He's very attached to his Gramma. Moms here too but he wants to be with his gramma. She doesn't spoil him of course.

 

[rancher hicks]

My poor chickens are going stir crazy. We have had a flock of hawks flying over head for 3 days now. Is it illegal to shoot a hawk if it attacks your flock?

Short answer - yes. Try using streamers, CDs', scary eyes etc. anything that will move and distract them - they get nervous and think predator. They should be gone in a couple of days, likely they are migrating.

The Dollar store has lots of things you can use for streamers, etc. etc. Too a CD player/radio with music or talk radio might help. Scarecrows too. I say do anything you can to protect your birds. A few shots overhead might help move them on their way. I'm not exactly sure where the fly zone is. Wonder if there is a map of it on the internet somewhere.

Lots of shrubs can help too. Barred or dark patterned breeds are good too. Whites like my Dels and C. Rocks not good at all.