Official Squatch Watchers

[MrsMistyReal]

Good morning everyone have a great day,congrats on all feathered family members

 

[21hens-incharge]

turkey babies in the incubator these are ones the teenage hen abandoned at 10 days.. I found her dead a week later.. nothing wrong with her inside or out.. I have lost 6 birds this year.. most were waterbelly or heart.. 2 I am not sure what happened.

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For the babies!

I AM sorry you lost the adult though.

 

[Redhead Rae]

2 of the 6 LF White Cornish eggs in my incubator are hatching!!!!! 2 of the 4 Dark Cornish eggs that I didn't think had a chance, but put them in anyway, are hatching as well!!!!! YAY!

 

[Molpet]

2 of the 6 LF White Cornish eggs in my incubator are hatching!!!!! 2 of the 4 Dark Cornish eggs that I didn't think had a chance, but put them in anyway, are hatching as well!!!!! YAY!

 

[Molpet]

For the babies!

I AM sorry you lost the adult though.

thanks
she was a chicken hen.. looked like a black sexlink but was part cx.. I hate losing any chicken, but especially a broody

 

[staceyj]

@apryl29
We didn’t the short fence thing last year and it worked for a teensy tiny little time. Then they RAVAGED the entire back yard-garden , grass, weeds, and flowers! It looked like a construction site by the beginning of spring.
This year -with the puppy - I really wanted to have a garden again and reclaim my yard but still allow the girls to free range because their run, although fabulous, is really only a “playpen” for when I’m going to be gone for several hours OR when my son’s herding/high prey instinct dog is visiting.

DH was skeptical but agreed to but me the premier 1 (no shock) hen pen. Which isn’t a pen although it could be, it’s more like a free form fencing. It’s 48 inches tall and SO FAR, knock on wood, they girls have not come over the top.

It IS NOT a predator deterrent AT ALL, nor is is dog proof - it’s merely a containment system for the birds , but I think it’s going to help me a lot!
We have it set up along the back part of the yard from the coop to the fence which gives them their own 95 x 12 feet of space.
So far I’m liking it a lot and feel that it was worth the investment.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I just took the Milk Drinker to look at the eggs. One of the Dark Cornish eggs was mostly zipped. We got there to see the chick push it's head out of the shell!

 

[staceyj]

I had a pet one as a kid so I felt bad if it had been a pet. But between the distemper that is going around, the neighbors that are hiring trappers to get them out from the attic and under the deck, and most of all... IT WANTED MY CHICKENS well lets just say it made a mistake.

If it looked sickly it needs more than a shovel.

 

[Redhead Rae]

If it looked sickly it needs more than a shovel.

She took a .22 to it.

 

[Molpet]

the premier 1 (no shock) hen pen

I have one of those. I first used it to contain hen and chicks.. the holes are 2" and the chicks went through it for weeks and the mom over to get to the chicks.
Now I have it around a coop with a halloween boy and a thanksgiving boy and girl. The boys ram it trying to get to hens put it holds up.
I have several of the shock or not and the chicks can't get through those.. so far anyway.
I got everything used except the solar fencer.