Do you know who he was mounting? He is so big you can't even see the hen underneath.Caught him!
Our fencing around the property has rectangles the size of the one you are consolidating. It's good at keeping out stags, deers and roe deers, but not badgers and hares , and our cats can wiggle through if they insist. We wouldn't imagine using it for the chicken pen even though we don't have all those mustelidaes.The weldmesh is just a temporary measure to close of the currnet rat runs. They will of course just get in somewhere else but this will slow them down a bit
I've never seen weldmesh, is it rigid like hard cloth? Right now we have woven fencing doubled with chicken mesh and because we don't have predators that gnaw the mesh off it works fine but when we redo it next year I would like to make it more secure.
Interesting serie of pictures documenting soft shell laying. I'm always slightly worried when the ex-batts rush to eat a just laid soft shell egg, that they will start eating normal eggs also. However in spite of the great number of soft shelled eggs they have eaten, it hasn't happened.This is Lima. She looked a bit off. I gave her a check over. She's not at all bothered by me picking her up. I couldn't feel an egg from underneath or just inside her vent. She laid a soft shelled egg. I just wasn't quick enough to get a picture of it. This lot arrived too quickly.
Lima looked better after the egg came out but not what I would call normal. I'm going to give her some calcium. Bear in mind that Lima will forage at every opportunity and I'm wondering if she is eating enough of the pellets to get sufficient calcium.View attachment 3057997View attachment 3057999View attachment 3058001
Are you giving them egg shells or oyster shell on the side or is it something you don't believe is useful?
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