**~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

[cuppycake]

lol.. probably released it's glands when it was shot... (dogs have those glands too.. just ask a vet or a groomer)

Oh lord, do they ever! I'm a groomer and I've had dog anal gland juices on me more times than I'd like to admit. it's awful.

 

[yinepu]

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yup... been there ..done that..

one of my bosses thought it was sooo funny to aim them at you when you weren't looking then give those glands a good squeeze..... any time I saw him holding a dog I made sure to keep my distance!

 

[debs_flock]

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yup... been there ..done that..

one of my bosses thought it was sooo funny to aim them at you when you weren't looking then give those glands a good squeeze..... any time I saw him holding a dog I made sure to keep my distance!
Ewww, ewww, ewww, I've had that experience.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Our cat "expresses herself" on us infrequently but at least a few times a year. She loves being a lapcat and I guess there gets a point in the petting process where she just loses control and ...

It mostly happens to BF and I'll see him scurrying down the stairs, past me, and then hear the shower running.

The fox BF got was half the fox problem (that we know about). We've lost a lot of ducks recently and have seen this guy around quite a few times. We scared him off as recently as last weekend and BF found him in the duck pen attacking our ducks yesterday. Seems like he was going to continue to be a problem so he had to go. The other one got a pekin last time it showed up and according to my neighbor and BF it was the biggest fox they had ever seen. Luckily that one hasn't been back. I haven't seen that one, yet. I put out my game cam but I just get shots like this:

 

[karimw]

We've had an ongoing fox problem too. They had free access from the neighbor's corn fields and dramatically reduceed my flock last summer. We now have new fences and a Great Pyrenese puppy to help stop that problem.

 

[yinepu]

Our cat "expresses herself" on us infrequently but at least a few times a year. She loves being a lapcat and I guess there gets a point in the petting process where she just loses control and ...

It mostly happens to BF and I'll see him scurrying down the stairs, past me, and then hear the shower running.

The fox BF got was half the fox problem (that we know about). We've lost a lot of ducks recently and have seen this guy around quite a few times. We scared him off as recently as last weekend and BF found him in the duck pen attacking our ducks yesterday. Seems like he was going to continue to be a problem so he had to go. The other one got a pekin last time it showed up and according to my neighbor and BF it was the biggest fox they had ever seen. Luckily that one hasn't been back. I haven't seen that one, yet. I put out my game cam but I just get shots like this:

We've had an ongoing fox problem too. They had free access from the neighbor's corn fields and dramatically reduceed my flock last summer. We now have new fences and a Great Pyrenese puppy to help stop that problem.

well guys.. hate to tell you.. but Spring is usually the time for fox kits.. which means they will be more active.. and it gets worse when mom starts training the kits how to hunt

so please don't let your guard down..


i love foxes.. but not when they think my birds NEED to be dinner!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm not sure if I should join. I set 75 eggs yesterday and 8 more are going in today so the first would have to go into the hatcher a day early to join this. Also the hatcher is going to be packed. It was designed for about 50 or 60 eggs max.

 

[HEChicken]

well guys.. hate to tell you.. but Spring is usually the time for fox kits.. which means they will be more active.. and it gets worse when mom starts training the kits how to hunt

so please don't let your guard down..


i love foxes.. but not when they think my birds NEED to be dinner!

Yup. As long as they stick to the rabbits and wild geese, they live. Start on my flock and its war. I can't say I love foxes, having grown up in Australia where they are prevalent and a pest, but I will "live and let live" as long as they leave me alone.

 

[chicken pickin]

So when is everyone planning on starting to collect eggs for the hatchathon? Has anyone started collecting yet? I was thinking of starting to collect this weekend.

 

[yinepu]

So when is everyone planning on starting to collect eggs for the hatchathon? Has anyone started collecting yet? I was thinking of starting to collect this weekend.

lol.. I have a turkey hen setting a nest right now.. and I have no room in the bators