NY chicken lover!!!!

[stonykill]

My best broody, simply named "Mama' and her daughter brooding side by side.



and the 1st broody hatch of the year is underway! I think that it is Mama. I do believe she has been sitting longer. I can hear the cheeping from the corner! Maybe she will let me see them tomorrow. I hope so, because I'm making a delivery to Manhattan (ugg, despise Manhattan) on Monday.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

Cherry trees produce cyanide in the cherry stones, the leaves, and, depending on the species, in the bark.  There was an incident back in 2001 where thoroughbred broodmares were aborting their foals.  It turned out to be mass cyanide poisoning. 

http://espn.go.com/horse/news/2001/0524/1203816.html

*needs a shiny star-and-rainbow "The More You Know" smiley* 

Oh, and I'm a member of the "my employers are not exactly my favorite people" club. 

I remembered cyanide when i was outside today. You beat me to correcting myself.
My professor in college said it was in the bark, but we were looking at the trees in the woods near cranberry lake not ornamentals. I probably forgot some of what he said being it was 10yrs ago.

 

[In His Service]

My broody BO has hatched her chicks...5 living, one is from my silkie pen the others are BOs. Just moved her into a little grow out coop/run where she can still see her sisters and rooster.

 

[stonykill]

hot dogs, chicken, raw or cooked hamburger all have worked well for me.

I've been *trying* to get these coons for like a year now? They will NOT go in the freaking box trap (Unless someone has a bait coons can't resist?) The Silkie pen it pried up the wire run fencing and got in their pen. This was the center section that I thought was safe, I think it may have climbed up the door? (There is a gap at the top) I have the box trap set with bait, but the coons appear to prefer LIVE bait, I'd set up some leg traps but I'm afaid of catching my dog!

I'll have to run and get some antibiotic ointment, I don't seem to have any on hand. She also appears to be slightly dragging one leg when she walks, I don't see any injury to the leg, but its possible it got messed up when it tried to carry it off.

We replaced the pen fencing on the Ameraucana pen with a heavier gauge wire and laid a skirting around that, that pen is also roofed. We just have not done the back coop yet, plus there are a lot of weak spots (IMO) too, I'd rather rip the thing down and just go buy a new one with electric netting around it, but yeah, no moola here either! I feel it is pretty secure against Fox/Coons, but I doubt it would have kept out those GP that killed a bunch of stuff earlier this year. (We shot at those, missed. They have not been back yet)

Last years plan was to put up electric fencing and get a LGD, but I had a baby instead. That really put a financial crimp in most of my plans, plus my husband is super resistant to spending any sort of money on the livestock stuff, so I have to pay for it all myself out of sales (Kinda hard when stuff gets eaten to make any money!) I can shore up the coop with stuff I have on hand, and hopefully will be able to scrape up enough for the poultry netting to go around the chicken coops for now, until I can pay for the main electric and LGD. Sacha was out last night and she def knew there had been a coon in the coop, I really don't want to add a vet bill to my troubles though!

And in hindsight, running into an enclosed coop to take on a 20 pound coon armed with only a dull rusty pitchfork, probably not one of the better ideas I've had lately! :O

 

[happycountryhens]

Stonykill: How cute

Tabs: Cranberry Lake is really beautiful.

 

[java girl 2]

Aww I wish I had eggs to hatch to join the mothers day hatch along, but then again I don't even have an incubator. LOL I do want to try the whole egg hatching thing eventually. I have to get my hands on a good incubator first. I started a thread to ask people which they recommended. Off to feed my horse friend! Talk to you all later!

you can make your own incubator and we can get you some eggs if you so desire! if you really want to do so, PM me and I can help you make your own for a very cheap price and very and I mean very little wiring to do. very safe too!!

 

[stonykill]

a friend of mine just called. No one calls me at 10pm, he is a retired trooper, our son is out, so....I'm not thinking good things. He called to say his middle son just drove by our house with thier tiltbed and a MOUNTAIN LION jumped from white line to white line in front of him, onto my lawn! We have 500 feet of road frontage, so I don't know where exactly it was, but I'm not as excited as he was!
he has chickens too. And all of his live outdoors. But the reason he called is he thought I might want to see it. Ummm,no thanks! not without a loaded weapon!

Jumping from white line to white line, that is a BIG cat!

 

[happyhensny]

My broody BO has hatched her chicks...5 living, one is from my silkie pen the others are BOs. Just moved her into a little grow out coop/run where she can still see her sisters and rooster.

A momma hen is awesome. She teaches her babes to eat, scratch and dust bathe. AND no brooder to clean or heat source to worry about.

I've been *trying* to get these coons for like a year now? They will NOT go in the freaking box trap (Unless someone has a bait coons can't resist?) The Silkie pen it pried up the wire run fencing and got in their pen. This was the center section that I thought was safe, I think it may have climbed up the door? (There is a gap at the top) I have the box trap set with bait, but the coons appear to prefer LIVE bait, I'd set up some leg traps but I'm afaid of catching my dog!

I'll have to run and get some antibiotic ointment, I don't seem to have any on hand. She also appears to be slightly dragging one leg when she walks, I don't see any injury to the leg, but its possible it got messed up when it tried to carry it off.

We replaced the pen fencing on the Ameraucana pen with a heavier gauge wire and laid a skirting around that, that pen is also roofed. We just have not done the back coop yet, plus there are a lot of weak spots (IMO) too, I'd rather rip the thing down and just go buy a new one with electric netting around it, but yeah, no moola here either! I feel it is pretty secure against Fox/Coons, but I doubt it would have kept out those GP that killed a bunch of stuff earlier this year. (We shot at those, missed. They have not been back yet)

Last years plan was to put up electric fencing and get a LGD, but I had a baby instead. That really put a financial crimp in most of my plans, plus my husband is super resistant to spending any sort of money on the livestock stuff, so I have to pay for it all myself out of sales (Kinda hard when stuff gets eaten to make any money!) I can shore up the coop with stuff I have on hand, and hopefully will be able to scrape up enough for the poultry netting to go around the chicken coops for now, until I can pay for the main electric and LGD. Sacha was out last night and she def knew there had been a coon in the coop, I really don't want to add a vet bill to my troubles though!

And in hindsight, running into an enclosed coop to take on a 20 pound coon armed with only a dull rusty pitchfork, probably not one of the better ideas I've had lately! :O

We use cheap fishy canned cat food or a can of anchovies. A friend told me that if they are getting the food and getting out to dig a hole under the trap for the food and stick some rebar pounded into the ground to hold the trap over the food. Then the coon tends to dig around inside the trap trying to get the food under the trap and sets it closed.

a friend of mine just called. No one calls me at 10pm, he is a retired trooper, our son is out, so....I'm not thinking good things. He called to say his middle son just drove by our house with thier tiltbed and a MOUNTAIN LION jumped from white line to white line in front of him, onto my lawn! We have 500 feet of road frontage, so I don't know where exactly it was, but I'm not as excited as he was!
he has chickens too. And all of his live outdoors. But the reason he called is he thought I might want to see it. Ummm,no thanks! not without a loaded weapon!

Jumping from white line to white line, that is a BIG cat!

We have mountain lions here too.

Haven't heard of any problems yet though.

DH and I are building our bee hive kit we found new in box someone had ordered and was too overwhelmed to put together. Which, after looking at all the pieces can certainly see why. Apparently it comes with 4 medium supers. Is this what people normally set up the first year?

 

[Sachasmom]

We've tried cat food, anchovies. Trap baited with rabbit, chicken and duck. Left out salted bait with some sucess. It just seems to prefer live bait (and why not?) I think its a whole colony of Coons bc the neighbor at the top of the hill mentioned the house (abandoned) was "Overrun with them" Nice huh?

I'm going to have to save up and try the live bait/gallon drum thing. Oh, we tried the gallon drum thing too with the bait at the bottom.

These are some seriously smart coons.

I've come to the conclusion that I need wire skirting. And electric poultry netting. Followed by a dog moat. Its frustrating to no end, I keep fixing the coops and they keep figuring out how to get in (in ways I had not considered even!)

But on a positive note, hey, the Rats are gone from the back coop finally... Which probably means I have a mink. Sigh.

 

[mixitup]

I had a mink, he slaughtered without purpose, just to kill. Got out of the trap I baited with raw liver, sat there looked at me and went back after a chicken. Sorry, but I shot him-no more mink-no more dead chickens!