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[Chicken Egg 17]

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My girls live on a river bank. Predators abound but they aren't worried, they have "Ava the Brave", their very own gaurd schnauzer!

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I have a border collie Aussie she just got shaved the other day I shave all of our dogs so we don't spend a fortune at a groomers

 

[Sylvester017]

Deer and cars don't mix, had plenty of my own close calls with them bolting out in front of me and keep a keen eye out for them, as they are everywhere up by me... Actually did contact one when I was younger, bolted in front of me, slammed on the brakes and it was enough to miss the dear, that was until it decided to pull a 180° and put itself right back in front of me... Just a little bump at that point but enough to take out the front grill of the car...

Last time I was visiting my father in law in Arkansas I asked him how the doors and read quarter panel of his car got all dented up on one side, he said a herd of deer just T-Boned the car one night, no damage to the cars front fender or front end, just from the door back where apparently multiple deer just bounced off the car when he was driving down the road...

Are Deer blind or what? Or do they just go blind when they startle and run for no reason? Kinda reminds me of my Ameraucana -- she's the jittery-ist chicken I've ever had -- and boy! can she BOLT.

 

[MeepBeep]

Are Deer blind or what?  Or do they just go blind when they startle and run for no reason?  Kinda reminds me of my Ameraucana -- she's the jittery-ist chicken I've ever had -- and boy! can she BOLT.

I believe it's a combination of several things, the lights do orientate and confuse them... Also yes they bolt before they think combined with the fact that cars are unnatural, and the ideal of being killed by that big moving box simply does not register with the deer or many other animals as a threat or danger... By nature hearing and scent are their primary 'danger' protection mechanisms neither are really set off by a car on a road as that has become 'natural' to them and in most cases never poses a danger... Sight is a secondary danger mechanism, mostly to locate the danger once heard or smelt, but since they can stand next to a car and not get harmed, seeing a car does not register as a danger, they seem unable to put car+moving=danger together, and not surprising as it takes years for even human children to figure that out with a ton of instruction...

 

[FarmerPhronc]

Quote: I have two dogs. A shepherd/husky mix and a full blooded husky. They aren't outside 24/7 but when they are nothing bothers the ladies. For the times they aren't outside, the coop and run are predator proof.





If you look close you'll see the shepherd/husky mix in the background keeping an eye on the roost and run.

 

[NanaNeen]

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My girls live on a river bank. Predators abound but they aren't worried, they have "Ava the Brave", their very own gaurd schnauzer!

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I have a border collie Aussie she just got shaved the other day I shave all of our dogs so we don't spend a fortune at a groomers

That's great! I've done that before, more than once. My family isn't real impressed with my skills though

 

[gpeters3]

Well, i got another recessed light fixture and put it in the coop. Now i have 2 red lights and it really made a difference. Im going to try using the red lights summer and winter on a two time timer just to see what happens. Heat lamps are gone and the turkeys already took over the top rung. That was the last step before integrating the chicks and hens (sounds like some kind of flower)

We will see what the weather looks like wednesday and drop the ramp (im already looking for an excuse to postpone )))

 

[Leigti]

I had mine built, and then I got decorative with electric fencing...see the stars?

I like it.

 

[Island Juli]

I've 10 or 12 on any given night in this coop. I've got some that like to roost outside overnight. They free range, so only in here for overnights. In the nesting box on the right, I've got 3 silkies sitting on 6 eggs. I put curtains up to cover the nest boxes and more places to roost.

The pictures were taken on the lady's property we bought it from. It was fun getting it on the back of a car carrier!

 

[gpeters3]

Ok, whats an air cell and what is pipped and what does humidity have to do with it? I just let them sit until some chicks show up and always let them sit in the spring when it was naturally humid and warm. Im not commercial, just fooling around and having fun. Sounds like some of you get pretty technical and serious, eh?

Course, with a no rooster rule i wont be doing that any more

 

[MeepBeep]

Ok, whats an air cell and what is pipped and what does humidity have to do with it?

The air cell is the a cell of air inside the egg, this is where the soon to be hatched chick will get it's first breath of air once it 'pips' aka pecks a hole in the inner membrane into the air cell... It will take a few breaths, maybe take a nap for up to 24 hour, then it will 'pip' aka break a hole in the shell to let more fresh air in... Then within the next 24 hours is will 'zip' aka peck more holes in a line so that the egg cracks in half and it can liberate itself... Once they 'pip' and/or start 'zipping' the shell if the humidity is too low in the incubator the eggs inside membranes can dry up and shrink (shrink wrap) around the chick killing it...