NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

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I saw free leghorns on CL today. http://albany.craigslist.org/grd/3088291360.html

Annie, Haven't heard from you in a while. Where have you been? Everything OK?

 

[vmdanielsen]

bring it on. I'd rather sweat any day than be cold.

I do like it cooler. When it gets this hot I get sluggish. Hope everybody's chickens do ok.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Morning all! I am not ready for this heat but my cheeps are. Dh and I spent last evening putting up a temporary fence with a tarp and deer netting over the top for the terrorists in the big coop. At least they can now be outside and under the coop in this heat. RIR must be pretty heat tolerant as they have never shown any signs of heat stress yet....however, this is the first real heat wave we are getting. I guess I will find out. They are getting huge all of a sudden and the boys are starting to try out their lungs. They sound funny right now. They try to answer Little Man when he starts crowing in the morning!

I have a watermelon frozen in the freezer and everyones food and water are filled up. Best I can do since everyone is at work so nobody will be home to check on them. They will all get treats when I get home.

Candling eggs tomorrow and am hoping all of them are still going. I have to pull a pullet out of my quad I kept from the last hatch as she isnt up to breeding standards. She already has a nice home waiting though so I am happy with that. I am hoping to get another one in this hatch. Frodo (the little cockeral splash silkie I kept) feels the need to challenge Little Man now every time I let both groups out. Little Man puts the beat down on him every time but Frodo keeps going back for more. Slow learner I guess!

Congrats on your babies Hen. It doesnt surprise me that Mrs Beasley has her kids doing the impossible. I see that with Stripe and her kids. So cute watching the whole family out in the lawn yesterday, doing what chickens do best.

Stony--did Big Red hatch anything yet?

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

I do like it cooler. When it gets this hot I get sluggish. Hope everybody's chickens do ok.

Ginny--I am with you. When it is this hot and humid, my body literally shuts down. It makes working very difficult, as I am on my feet all day and there is very little air movement where I am. Have to stock up on zero water this morning!

 

[ange]

Hi. I am from Corning new York. Have 9 hens but think a few are not laying since I average 7eggsva day. And 6 chicks 3 months old. Predictor ate 9. Sad to say

 

[stonykill]

Hi. I am from Corning new York. Have 9 hens but think a few are not laying since I average 7eggsva day. And 6 chicks 3 months old. Predictor ate 9. Sad to say

that sounds like a really good egg to hen ratio. Hens don't lay every day. Getting 75% is good and you are above that.

I killed yet another racoon today. That makes 4 raccoons, 1 possum, 1 weasel(killed by my cat) and a red fox that I killed in the last 3 weeks.

 

[marquisella]

I have had 2 chickens killed in the last 2 nights...first time for me, but I figured it would happen eventually.

So, it came in the night, can either fly in & out, or climb up a 5 ft. chain link fence. It ate only the meat of the chicken, and just one bird per night. It ate it in the fenced area so either it caught it before dark in the run, or went into the coop & took it outside to eat but couldn't carry it away.

Any suggestions as to what it is? I thought raccoons & opossums always killed several birds, not just one, and this thing actually ate the meat, not just kill for the fun of it..

I'm stumped. Owl?

 

[Framac]

that sounds like a really good egg to hen ratio. Hens don't lay every day. Getting 75% is good and you are above that.

I killed yet another racoon today. That makes 4 raccoons, 1 possum, 1 weasel(killed by my cat) and a red fox that I killed in the last 3 weeks.

Wow. That seems like a lot of critters. Have you lost any/many?

 

[stonykill]

I have had 2 chickens killed in the last 2 nights...first time for me, but I figured it would happen eventually.

So, it came in the night, can either fly in & out, or climb up a 5 ft. chain link fence. It ate only the meat of the chicken, and just one bird per night. It ate it in the fenced area so either it caught it before dark in the run, or went into the coop & took it outside to eat but couldn't carry it away.

Any suggestions as to what it is? I thought raccoons & opossums always killed several birds, not just one, and this thing actually ate the meat, not just kill for the fun of it..

I'm stumped. Owl?

oppossum is my guess. They generally just eat the breast and leave the rest. One very serious question. How could it get in the coop? Don't you close the door? I WILL be back until you kill it or you close the door.

A coon takes the entire chicken. Sometime a possum does, other times it eats it right there. In any case, close your door and get a trap. $35 at TSC. I use 2. I've killed 4 coons, 1 possum, 1 Red Fox and my cat killed a weasel in the last 3 weeks.

 

[marquisella]

oppossum is my guess. They generally just eat the breast and leave the rest. One very serious question. How could it get in the coop? Don't you close the door? I WILL be back until you kill it or you close the door.

A coon takes the entire chicken. Sometime a possum does, other times it eats it right there. In any case, close your door and get a trap. $35 at TSC. I use 2. I've killed 4 coons, 1 possum, 1 Red Fox and my cat killed a weasel in the last 3 weeks.

I've never had a predator like that before, so all my coops are open 24/7 to their outside yards...If an opposum does only eat the breast, and eats it where it kills, then that is probably it. I wonder if it is living somewhere in the barn? Where do they usually live?