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Blarneyeggs said:
X2, great advice Silkie.

I add juveniles and reintroduce quarantine chooks by putting them in a cage inside my main run for 2 or 3 days, then pop them on a roost at night when reintroducing. You've got quite a bit of space at your place, was she not able to get away somehow? The problems I've had with bullying always seem to be in the runs, not out free ranging.
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Tip on force feeding. Had to do it last spring with some chicks. Found that using a wooden scewer (pointy end, you know the kind you make shish-ka-bobs with) to pry the beak open was gentler and more effective than my fingers squeezing them.
 
AnneInTheBurbs said:
I stand corrected! I'm going to have nightmares now, I couldn't even watch the rest of the video.
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I will be very careful to tuck everyone in safe and sound at night. Thanks for the reminder!
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The one that got after my orp, cleared my 4' fence with no effort at all...followed closely by my pooch who cleared the fence with no effort....the only thing that the fence works on is me...and before the roo came around, the chooks went awol too.....
 
Crud. I did not get my onions in. I planted my snow peas, and the chooks dug them up. I put a fence up, which they laughed at, and dug some more. So last night, I replanted the peas hoping the snow would deter the chooks until I can got some 7 foot netting up. Sheesh!
 
chiques chicks said:
I'd say this is the onion snow if the ground had been able to be worked to get onions in!
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Blarneyeggs said:
Crud. I did not get my onions in. I planted my snow peas, and the chooks dug them up. I put a fence up, which they laughed at, and dug some more. So last night, I replanted the peas hoping the snow would deter the chooks until I can got some 7 foot netting up. Sheesh!
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I have realized, there is no sneaking anything past a chicken! To rehash a well known phrase.... 'If you plant it, they will come'!
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for those of you that are local within driving distance,,,,would you be interested in a crop of pick your own sweet corn,,,,,,,we plant this every year and it gets away from me and goes to waste,,,,,it seems to always be ready at a time when we are also busy at work, so I can not get to it in the field, let alone the processing of it to put in the freezer or can........I end up picking most off it to late when it gets chewy and ends up going to the birds..

and a garden question,,, lima beans, are they really hard to grow or is it just me....I get nice looking plants that never flower...
 

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