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[roosterhavoc]

Owls still visit me even with fencing up but they are after the mice. As soon as owl starts actually landing on pens the chickens get riled and dogs go inside fencing area to push owl out. Owl seems to have learned how not to stir chickens. One of the days the dogs will catch another owl, we caught one a couple winters back. If that happens again I will turn it in to our biologist so they can do something with it.

Mice and voles and them darn little songbirds are biggest problems because they can eat a big chunk of feed.

I worry the most about the song birds and my fly tying roosters getting lice. I do everything I can to keep things neat and I don't throw scratch or anything on the ground but come winter they are all around anyway.

 

[centrarchid]

I worry the most about the song birds and my fly tying roosters getting lice. I do everything I can to keep things neat and I don't throw scratch or anything on the ground but come winter they are all around anyway.

When it gets cold my birds have to get two crop fills daily to keep weight on. Owing to work schedule around winter solstice that all has to be applied before dawn and the darn songbirds go after the feed. I have been able to pull songbirds off by loading up bird feeders near house but that does not work when the really big flocks of Grackles, Red-wings, Starlings, Brewers and Robins come through. Then is it nothing to have several thousand birds per acre and they can cover several acres. Thankfully that does not happen often..

 

[roosterhavoc]

Tried that with the bird feeders. I just brought in more hawks and the farm cats I got running around(which do a great job killing moles, voles and mice ) would leave a bunch of dead birds on my doorstep.

 

[sdm111]

I also have those big white forked tail birds think there called kites. But they just circle and make the birds go crazy.

 

[roosterhavoc]

A couple years ago during migration time I had a broadwinged hawk set up shop here and took a bunch of birds. It's very unusual to have a problem withe broad wings. Must have been a rogue hawk or something. I got a positive ID though. The only bolder hawk I've seen was a northern goshawk hung around for a few hours one day. He didn't care that I was standing there. They are huge too. Everything else just flies around kind of just annoying the birds for the most part.
I do have a bunch of owls but all birds are locked up at night except the peacock and three guineas so no issues there. No kites here that I've ever seen.

 

[mc chicken]

I have some sid Taylors I will be breeding this spring if anybody's interested in trading chicks or eggs!

 

[centrarchid]

Here is something America Game related. We all have experienced a hen and sometimes a cock defending chicks. I got tired of getting hammered in shins and head so devised a way to tame all my hens without any selective breeding. They still go after predators so that capacity not lost.. This is my son down on ground with hen and 3 week old biddies. Same hen would bring broods into house. I could do this with the meanest game line you can find. This hen is from such.

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[roosterhavoc]

I couldn't do that with a silkie hen I used over the past summer. she would jimmy fly snooka me just trying to feed them lol

 

[sdm111]

Centra, that's pretty cool
Havoc, bwaaaaaha
Mc, thanks but I'm good

 

[roosterhavoc]

I have some sid Taylors I will be breeding this spring if anybody's interested in trading chicks or eggs!

thanks but I've got plenty of birds right now.