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Sally Sunshine said:
That means you need to post more! so they know your not spam and the real deal! then you get all the perks! LOL keep posting and replyin!
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LOL - yeah I need to post more I know. Just looking around at the moment for all the info I can find so I can be more educated on owning chickens. I should be finishing my coop but thanks to the rain, it is making it impossible to get it finished! Grrrr
 
LeBlackbird said:
Just called the PGC, they ok'd it
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it's perfectly legal to take a nuisance animal with a leg trap. There is no season for dealing with a problem predator, you have the right to protect your animals 24/7. When I have a coon or possum that is after my birds, I typically use box-type traps but the local predators are figuring out that box traps are bad, so I have to switch tactics. Nuisance animals that I trap are humanely dispatched immediately upon discovery, to prevent prolonged suffering. I just wanted to double-check that leg traps were legal.
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Nice i am actually a trapper myself but since they are not bother my birds i cannot trap them but good luck!
 
So how many of you house ducks and geese with chickens? Any good suggestions on keeping everything dry? I'm thinking that a possible lack of good ventilation is keeping is moist in there. I turn the straw every other day and it is damp. The chickens do stay on the opposite side right now by choice and it is dry there. Ducks are such a mess!!
 
chickencrossing said:
Nice i am actually a trapper myself but since they are not bother my birds i cannot trap them but good luck!
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Well, I should probably explain the story now

At 11ish last night, I finished doing everything that needed to be done I went out to tuck the birds away. I had just checked on them 3 hours earlier, just before the light had disappeared to make sure everyone was fine, which they were. When I went out the second time, I found my poor Heidi dead, decapitated, and pulled partially through the wire.
RIP, my little sweetheart
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I was horrified and distraught. I packed everyone up tight and set up traps in case the animal who did this came back. I assumed it was a raccoon, judging by the way it was pulled to the wire and decapitated. Oh, how wrong I was. This morning, I went out at the crack of dawn to check the trap and there he was, hissing and snapping his beak at me. I've never seen a bird get nabbed in a ground trap like this, I was shocked! Not sure if his leg is broken, but he's going to a Wildlife Rehab center later this afternoon, and hopefully I won't see him again.
 
LeBlackbird said:
Well, I should probably explain the story now

At 11ish last night, I finished doing everything that needed to be done I went out to tuck the birds away. I had just checked on them 3 hours earlier, just before the light had disappeared to make sure everyone was fine, which they were. When I went out the second time, I found my poor Heidi dead, decapitated, and pulled partially through the wire.
RIP, my little sweetheart
hit.gif



I was horrified and distraught. I packed everyone up tight and set up traps in case the animal who did this came back. I assumed it was a raccoon, judging by the way it was pulled to the wire and decapitated. Oh, how wrong I was. This morning, I went out at the crack of dawn to check the trap and there he was, hissing and snapping his beak at me. I've never seen a bird get nabbed in a ground trap like this, I was shocked! Not sure if his leg is broken, but he's going to a Wildlife Rehab center later this afternoon, and hopefully I won't see him again.
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Awee well at least you got something!!! Hopefully no more issues! Tis the season!

And look at that owls eyes. Made me lol a little. The eyes scream "hug me" the beak says "I will eat you!"
 
hopefully gonna try to make it to the dragon sat.....in search of a few pheasant chicks to raise for a buddy,,,maybe a rabbit and goat and sheep and calf...joking really,,, I think....hubby says go ahead I will just load them back up and take them to a different auction.
 

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