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[SwampFoot]

Y'all got some pretty birds coming up this year!
I had a wood rat kill a whole clutch of biddies this week. ):

 

[JShubin]

Y'all got some pretty birds coming up this year!
I had a wood rat kill a whole clutch of biddies this week. ):

Sorry for loss... was a mama hen present? or were they incubator biddies?

I have seen dead rats in my parents chicken coops, and I assumed the chickens killed them. I see mine thrashing and swallowing mice all the time.

 

[SwampFoot]

Incubator chicks, but they were feathered out real good. I got to one of them before it got ate, he's got holes in his thighs but is still alive.
It's a foot long rat, and can jump higher than my head. I found a rooster of mine that tolerates the various ages of chicks that I have left and it might just be a lucky situation, but he guards them and directs them to hide when a predator rolls around.

 

[roosterhavoc]

 

[roosterhavoc]

leiper stag

 

[roosterhavoc]

Had a whitehackle pullet jump up and fly about 60 yds or so straight to the back of my yard. As soon as she got close to the trees she turned and came back about 15 yds.
That's the furthest I've seen a chicken fly let alone a 3.5 month old pullet. Flew in a straight line like a duck.

 

[roosterhavoc]

 

[centrarchid]

Had a whitehackle pullet jump up and fly about 60 yds or so straight to the back of my yard. As soon as she got close to the trees she turned and came back about 15 yds.
That's the furthest I've seen a chicken fly let alone a 3.5 month old pullet. Flew in a straight line like a duck.

She will be able to better later. Peak flight capacity not realized until bullpullet / bullstag status realized starting around 8 to 9 months. Conditioning is very important as penned birds will have a greatly reduced ability for sustained and even short range flight performance envelope. Mental state with respect to fear also important as well as experience. As far as I can tell pen reared birds, which have experience with believe it or not, have a fear of heights.

 

[jonservidio]

So I let out my doves out this weekend... went missing after 30 minutes. Haha. Good luck to them.

I heard you can't let them out till after they have paired up and hatched out

I'll ask an oldtimer I usually see at the auction on wed., if he's there.

he drives 70 miles one way on the chance that there might be some he'll want

 

[MaycanGamefowl]

my brown red brood cock