***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[mjgigax]

Had a rude awakening event in the hen house this morning at 6:30 am. before I even had my coffee.
Red kept trying to go thru the screen from the brooder room into the layer house. He kept whining. So I stopped filling feed and waterer and took a look.
I could see a dead chick in the floor pen in that side of the hen house. When I investigated I could see a gray form in the corner under the hanging feeder. I grabbed a shovel and was able to kill a 5 foot 4 inch snake that was in the middle of swallowing one of the 10 week old chicks. It had tried to swallow the dead chick but had tried to swallow it wing first.
So the snake is history and we are down two blue CWs. The one is a roo and I'm sure the one the snake actually ate is a pullet. You can still see the feet in the mouth.
As one of my dughters says "Blechk EWWW"
I didn't think a snake would take on that big of a chick.
Time to set some traps and clean out the weedy patch near the barn.

Holy Cow! - What a waste, 2 nice birds gone. Red is a good chicken dog.

 

[MacGuyver]

Good Morning All, I need some advice, help or whatever you got. I moved my feeder and waters outside the coop. there's just not room inside. I can't seem to keep the feed dry. I know we probably won't get so much more rain but really, the rain was practically horizontal the other night and it ruined what i had out under an old table. Any suggestions?

I have 13 chickens. 12 pullets and one Sergeant Major roo. Or maybe he's a Marine. I just know he's very stern and serious about his job and boy was he not happy to find wet feed for his flock.
Cathie Sue

Depending on what kind of feeders you have, you can rig something up to keep the rain out. I have a small chicken ark for my bantams and I hung an old grill lid in their ark to shelter the feed from the rain. It stays bone dry even in that horrible giant hail storm we had the other day.

 

[mamapoppybee]

Depending on what kind of feeders you have, you can rig something up to keep the rain out. I have a small chicken ark for my bantams and I hung an old grill lid in their ark to shelter the feed from the rain. It stays bone dry even in that horrible giant hail storm we had the other day.

That poor chicken must have some really bad dreams will that grill top in there!

 

[MacGuyver]

That poor chicken must have some really bad dreams will that grill top in there!

Never thought of that!

 

[mamapoppybee]

Never thought of that!

oh no is that lemon pepper or garlic butter i see coming?

 

[Gunmama]

oh no is that lemon pepper or garlic butter i see coming?

Wait a sec, is that BBQ sauce? I knew they wanted to eat me!!

 

[MacGuyver]

oh no is that lemon pepper or garlic butter i see coming?

Heh. Definitely wouldn't go to the trouble of plucking a bantam cochin to put on the bbq.

 

[cathiesue]

That poor chicken must have some really bad dreams will that grill top in there!

All these bbq comments are hilarious! Wish I could find a grill top. I might try to disguise it better less stress for the dinner, uh, chickens.

 

[mamapoppybee]

Heh. Definitely wouldn't go to the trouble of plucking a bantam cochin to put on the bbq.

idk might be like cornish game hen lol jk but this is fun!

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

Had a rude awakening event in the hen house this morning at 6:30 am. before I even had my coffee.
Red kept trying to go thru the screen from the brooder room into the layer house. He kept whining. So I stopped filling feed and waterer and took a look.
I could see a dead chick in the floor pen in that side of the hen house. When I investigated I could see a gray form in the corner under the hanging feeder. I grabbed a shovel and was able to kill a 5 foot 4 inch snake that was in the middle of swallowing one of the 10 week old chicks. It had tried to swallow the dead chick but had tried to swallow it wing first.
So the snake is history and we are down two blue CWs. The one is a roo and I'm sure the one the snake actually ate is a pullet. You can still see the feet in the mouth.
As one of my dughters says "Blechk EWWW"
I didn't think a snake would take on that big of a chick.
Time to set some traps and clean out the weedy patch near the barn.

Black rat snake, I caught my 5th copperhead for the year today in the minnow traps but not before it killed a chick, Last week I found a grown hen dead in the pen I think it had been bitten also, the copperheads sure are thick in my yard...