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My 1st October chick arrived. (Peeking out of mom's feathers/ Left top corner.) Can't wait to see it. It's from a blue laced ee rooster x a langshan hen.
 

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BadBloodNelson said:
I was NOT planning on hatching eggs this month seeing as we have over 200 chickens right now and really need yet another coop for my august babies. However, my white leghorn hen had other ideas. She does not like to stay in the run with the other chickens and I allow her freedom. Her name is Lake Ann. My dominate rooster is Albert, another white leghorn. He is the only rooster I know of that mates her. Its always a hunt for her eggs. While cleaning our yard and rearranging our chicken areas about a week and a half ago my hubby discovered a nest full of her eggs. He put them in a basket and brought them inside. Lake Ann was devastated. She was making horrible noises looking for her eggs the rest of the evening. I was irritated because I knew she had been sitting on them and now he had moved them. I was not sure if we should put her somewhere with them and see if she would sit on them again or how to proceed. We ended up pulling the incubator back out. There were 12 eggs. 10 were fertile and developing, they look like they may hatch somewhere around the 30th. Gotta love some surprise chicken math!!! These chickens seriously need to go to auction. 200 birds ALL under a year, most under six months. I go to work to feed them right now.... LOL
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Happy Halloween!!!
 
Maiahr said:
Right, electric fencing won't save me from these animals.. I don't know their names in English so I am posting pictures. Plus rats.
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The second one we call a ferret. My brothers had one growing up and she was the sweetest thing! I knee they hunted rabbits but had no idea they hunt chickens so good to know :thumbsup.

Yay so many babies hatching!!
 
Maiahr said:
Right, electric fencing won't save me from these animals.. I don't know their names in English so I am posting pictures. Plus rats.
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These are in the Mustelid family, so they could be ferrets, weasels, martens, minks, ermine, etc. I've not encountered any of these in the wild or my yard yet, but I hear they are very tough to defeat. If these are your problem, see if you can identify or make a solid surface to park the chicken tractor on at night such as a concrete pad or a patio. You'll also want to use a small hole, heavier duty wire than chicken wire - maybe use what we call hardware cloth in the US. And make sure every single spot on your tractors is closely joined: absolutely NO GAPS. These predators can slip through very small holes, I've heard
 
We had roof rats squeeze into a brooder coop at night, once, where a hen and her chicks were..killed 6 chicks and maimed one..literally ate off one of her legs and several toes on the other foot but she lived.
It was the tiniest crack near the top of the roof for ventilation. I cant believe those big rats squeezed through there but they did. We immediately got a metal roof and hardware cloth over it and havent had a problem with that particular coop since. We have to do everything up like Fort Knox here, there are so many predators.
 

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