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[centrarchid]

Recruitment assesment will not solid till fall 2017.

We used to have redquil, not Redquill, pop up a lot.

Toppy fertility seems good. Not experienced with muff.

 

[flypen]

Something smashed into one of my pens and bent it inward. My guess would be a deer, close to rutting about now. No way a hawk slammed into it without laying there dead. No evidence of a stag kicking it either. Strange things happening around these parts.

It's been raining all day. Disregard the mess.

No tracks?

 

[roosterhavoc]

No tracks?

No sir. All grass around the pens in that area. There is a hawk hanging around. Maybe a chicken slammed into it trying to get away. Who knows. Put in the file with the hole in the top of my waterer. I think I have ghosts. Least they could do is feed and water em while they're out there screwing around.

 

[centrarchid]

Something smashed into one of my pens and bent it inward. My guess would be a deer, close to rutting about now. No way a hawk slammed into it without laying there dead. No evidence of a stag kicking it either. Strange things happening around these parts.

It's been raining all day. Disregard the mess.

Stag would have to have hit that at full on trimmed out flight (>35 mph) which would have dinged him up a lot.

A critter weighing better than 30 lbs could do that in one strike. You got Boobcats or Coyotes coming in to yard?

 

[flypen]

What does he call those Toppys? Any particular name go with them? They look real close to the stags that were brothers and half brothers to my pullets.

He just calls them muff toppys, he used a family of muffs and a family of toppys to make them. Both families were white fowl. The 2 original breeders were dominating all of that area where you live so he bought a trio from each of them and made his own.

 

[roosterhavoc]

Stag would have to have hit that at full on trimmed out flight (>35 mph) which would have dinged him up a lot.

A critter weighing better than 30 lbs could do that in one strike. You got Boobcats or Coyotes coming in to yard?

If a coyote came that far into the yard he would have gotten the birds. No bobcats here. I say deer my final answer. They do all kinds of dumb sh*t when the hormones get raging

 

[sdm111]

I've had that happen and it was inside the elec fence and I have many red tail hawks around

 

[flypen]

I'll pm you some more info if you want centra, the original families that came from one breeder as toppys and the other breeder had muffs.

 

[gmfwlbrdr]

Ive heard muffs are mighty tough ,,critters ,, they have some longevity, ive never had one but i sure would buy one.

 

[JShubin]

If a coyote came that far into the yard he would have gotten the birds. No bobcats here. I say deer my final answer. They do all kinds of dumb sh*t when the hormones get raging

yeah I would say some kind of herbivore or a bird of prey... A land predator would have been all over it, digging under or flipping over to get the food inside.

The dent looks like a single point of contact and likely only one hit.

you think deer would have ran off with piece of plastic? I know my chickens eat Styrofoam, so it would surprise me.