Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[Gardeningmama]

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WOW! I can't believe you actually caught it! Sorry for your loss

Quote: Those East Indies are gorgeous! I love their coloring

 

[LeBlackbird]

Oh my gosh, I just can't believe I caught an Owl in a leg trap! He looks pretty young, so I guess he got fed up with hunting and resorted to the easy pickings. His mistake! Hopefully the little guy has learned his lesson. The rehab center will take good care of him, and I'll forgive him as long as he doesn't come back.
Thanks guys, Heidi will be missed I guess she's in a better place now

 

[tweetr1979]

Oh my gosh, I just can't believe I caught an Owl in a leg trap! He looks pretty young, so I guess he got fed up with hunting and resorted to the easy pickings. His mistake! Hopefully the little guy has learned his lesson. The rehab center will take good care of him, and I'll forgive him as long as he doesn't come back.
Thanks guys, Heidi will be missed

I guess she's in a better place now

Poor Heidi

Glad you got the owl before it had a chance to strike again!

 

[cskotek]

east indies in the bator,,,,,I am crossing fingers and toes..

Just out of curosity, if you are selling them, how much would you sell them for?

 

[Blarneyeggs]

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

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.

This is unbelievable!!! How awesome! I shall now and ever after refer to you as 'The Owl Tamer'. Great Job!!

 

[LeBlackbird]

thanks tweet

Oh Blarney Thanks!

 

[cskotek]

The blue one was a cross I hatched in Jan. I like to think of him as my blue pekin! To me totally looks like a pekin just with a blue color! I love him! The 2nd pic of another pekin cross she is very skittish.

 

[Reyvaughn]

The blue one was a cross I hatched in Jan. I like to think of him as my blue pekin! To me totally looks like a pekin just with a blue color! I love him! The 2nd pic of another pekin cross she is very skittish.





Our next pen is on its way!! 24 feet long. The idea changed.. instead the back being for the ducks and front for tractor/ other things it went to right will be for ducks and left for other things. This is the duck side. It will contain 2 foot side sections by 5 feet long.. I think 5 feet and then I can then move the sections to make them larger and what not. Also can be used for breeding pens.. the right side wall will contain multipal doors er each section. Then a door on the front and back of the pen for human acess.



Size comparasion to the other pen we built. Sorry about the clutter! Everything is under construction lol.

Your blues look like the blues I have. I thought mine were jumbo Pekin crosses based on the size of them. I like the colors I am getting from them, and they have really nice size since I did get them to eat. Do you guys want to come build my new pen?


So, I got good news this week. Kind of... We got our mortgage as long as we can prove this place is a house and not a trailer (it's on concrete pillars and a wood frame - it's a house). The bad news is, I am getting cold feet on buying this place. I don't really want this place. I told Dewey that if we buy, we need to buy for the long term. I can't imagine us spending the rest of our lives here. I am sick of moving and now that I have so much stuff and so many birds, I really dread moving, but if it's one last time, I can do it.

Also, no deaths or pecking that I could see so far today. The rain ruined my plans of cleaning the big coop and putting all the juveniles in there. Tomorrow...

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Our next pen is on its way!! 24 feet long. The idea changed.. instead the back being for the ducks and front for tractor/ other things it went to right will be for ducks and left for other things. This is the duck side. It will contain 2 foot side sections by 5 feet long.. I think 5 feet and then I can then move the sections to make them larger and what not. Also can be used for breeding pens.. the right side wall will contain multipal doors er each section. Then a door on the front and back of the pen for human acess.



Size comparasion to the other pen we built. Sorry about the clutter! Everything is under construction lol.

This is Ginormous!! I need to try that trick, 'hey honey, we'll build it big enough for your tractor too. PSYCH!'

So my Mother's Day present is here!! Pics after they warm up.
I had EVERYONE free ranging today, looked out the window and there was a hawk circling

. I grab the scratch container and run out to the main coop shaking it, they all gathered around me like good little chooks and went into the coop. EVERYONE. Even the 3 that stay in the Orp Coop. Then I thought, well, I guess you three fit here. Uh, duh. Why didn't I think of that. One less coop to feed and water in the morning. YAY!!

 

[BirdbyGavin1103]

Just called the PGC, they ok'd it

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.

Did you check about the owl while you had them on the phone?