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Chopped cabbage, bird seed and oats.
Henry.
Henry.
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Looks like Redbor Kale. My chickens love it. The leaves on top are still edible, wonder why they left them like that? Especially when there are chickens on site?Someone grew some stuff. It's been left to rot.
Thanks for the advice, Shad, and the lovely pictures of the tribes. Yes, I've read some (but not all) of your stories from Catalonia.My advice would be don't free range and increase supervised out of run time.
You would needed to have followed my posts from when I first joined BYC to fully appreciate why I write this. If you free range some chickens will die. It's almost unavoidable.
I will try and explain this advice in detail, but it won't be quick. I've been meaning to write perhaps an article on this very subject for some time.
Please, take my advice for the short term at least and wait.
No, just the strip under the trees and bushes, just to give them a more interesting run. It would be around 4' x 40'.I would be willing to give it a try. Is it the whole area you would be able to net ?
That cooper hawk video is scary, but it does seem this is very specific to this hawk specie. The ones we have around here do not behave in this way at all.
How the heck is Henry still white after all that mud? He is such a dignified rooster.Chopped cabbage, bird seed and oats.
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Because they know they were bred to lay tons of eggs and die young. No time to make kissy face with a rooster.I've yet to see any of the RSL's do it.
Allotment fox!!!!! Good thing your chickens are safely locked up when you aren't there.where the allotment fox lives.
Yes they are. After that instance I do headshots only so there's no tracking them in the thicket.Ruddy cannibals
Between my chickens and dogs I got very few apples or pears last year. This year I'll put up temporary fences.Where, approximately, do you live? You can put it in your profile.
Somehow you'll meet a neighbor that you'll get along with and can share help when needed.
So the answer is to give the apple to the rooster so he can call the girls over and brag about his foraging proficiency.
It was amazing and frightening at the same time to watch that hawk. I also knew at that moment that there was almost nothing that I could do to stop it from a determined hunt.No, just the strip under the trees and bushes, just to give them a more interesting run. It would be around 4' x 40'.
I've never seen our Cooper's do that behavior, though of course I can't say they haven't. What I see frequently are some spectacular aerials where they stoop from way up high, flip upside down, and pick off a pigeon just as it is reacting and dropping off the phone line.
I do love to watch hawks. I walk my dogs along the wetlands where the Cooper's nest. There are some kestrels that hunt the wetlands, too. The osprey at our sailing center has become something of a mascot, and uses our boat masts as a hunting vantage point. Good to see them make a come back after the DDT ban.