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[PintoPasoFino]

Everyone in the south talk about snakes but I have never seen a wild snake in my lIfe. I guess I am lucky to live up here?

I'm in Northern Illinois too and there are snakes around. I see them when we bale hay, sometimes they go through the baler and get baled in the hay. Some are alive.........some arent and you find them when the bale of hay starts to stink. Either way not a pleasant experience. We have the opposums that sometimes steal eggs, or a skunk, last year there was a mink living under one of the coops. Today though, it was none of those things. I was at work and DH let the piggy out..........he went in the nest place and got some chicken eggs, and the sebbie goose egg that she layed this morning.

 

[mamawolf544]

Oh I have problems, I just bought a 4th incubator!!!!

I'm quitting after one more, right!!!!! I was not hatching anymore after Easter.
I have a serious problem.

 

[dldolan]

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Darling~!

But I am curious about seeing pellets instead of crumble around the edges...aren't they too big for little chicks to eat? Or is that some type of bedding?? Just curious...

 

[meepitqueenie]

those are pine pellets - not food

you can use the ones for cats or horse bedding. i used to put these in the rabbit cages when i went to shows. less stinky and lest dust.

@emvickrey what about moth balls would that work for the snake.... not sure it would be good for chickens.... but some people up here put them under there trailers and porches to keep the snakes away. and i can send some more eggs to you just let me know if you want them.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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We were at the auction yesterday and my son comes running to say he had a snake crawl right up next to him by the goat building. I asked him what kind it was and he said the other kids told him it was an anaconda

 

[CapricornFarm]

I grew up in New York and spent a lot of time in the woods. I used to bring snakes home for my mom to admire. It's a wonder I never got bitten by a rattler or something. When we lived in Florida I almost picked up a cottonmouth, but it was intent on getting away so i let it go. Obviously i didn't know it was poisonous. Later that day a neighbor killed it. I actually like snakes because many of them eat rodents. One day i was driving along on my way home and i saw a lady whacking at a corn snake with a rake. So i stopped my car, walked over to the very upset snake and picked it up. Then i wrapped it around my neck and drove home. It's so funny, because my husband calls me when he sees a snake. There was a big chicken snake inside the nest box when he went to see if there were any eggs. So he just shut the lid and told me about it.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

I just want to say thank you to all those that I took eggs from.

Here is the list of those I got eggs from and what kind of eggs. I am sorry if I missed anybody. Some of you I got a few boxes of eggs. Made 40+ swaps

The bad part is most of eggs I recieved had broken air sacs or scrambled so not a lot of hatch going on

Buns: Barnvelders
Bhen: Olive eggers, Marans
Buff beauty: Bantam Faverolles
Blackbrook poultry: Lav Orps
Chicky chicky baby: silkies
city slickers: silkies
Faykoko WV: welsummer
Hot 2 pot: polish
Julie chick: MGB, Bantam barred rock
Little Ameraucana mom: silkies, Bantam Lav ameraucana
Last chance ranch: ringneck pheasants
Miss D'uccle: BBS Ameraucanas, Ringneck pheasant
Nadine: Marans
Nek38583: Bantam Faverolles, Houdans
Oberhaslikid: Lav orps
Phoenix feather farms: polish, lav orps
Pidgey 104: Bantam RIR, polish
Pheatherz: Marans
Reese poultry: silkies
Sebright mom: BCM
Shelly ga: BLRW
Soaring chicks: WMarans, Blue wyndottes, BLRW
Shelley d 2008: BCM
Tazcat: Bantam orps
Tennessee truly: Bantam Ameraucana
Wolf Tracks: BCM
WV chick 71: BCM, orps
Ultasol: welsummer

 

[BlackBrookPoultry]

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We were at the auction yesterday and my son comes running to say he had a snake crawl right up next to him by the goat building. I asked him what kind it was and he said the other kids told him it was an anaconda

That's really funny!!! Kids can be so silly sometimes.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Right on, Gamebirdsonly! I appreciate all the ones I receive, and am enjoying watching those chicks grow! Thanks y'all!

 

[CapricornFarm]

So it's 98 degrees in the shade. I go to the barn to check on the chickens. My last white silkie hen is laying in the full sun! The other one died from heat yesterday, even though I started letting them out again despite peril from hawks. They had water, but if they are going to lay in the sun, what can you do? I put a fan in there and froze bottles of water to put inside their drinkers. I picked up the ones that are broody and made them drink. This heat is terrible. My strategy is to go out and do a couple things then go back inside to get a drink and cool off. Today is the first day in a while I haven't ended up with a migraine (so far). How is everyone else doing with the heat?