Silkies - They’re simply SPECTACULAR!

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I got a silkie roo this weekend!
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laneaj said:
Oh gosh! I don't know what I'll do if I go out and find dead babies! Or lots of mice!
Sounds you are handling it well!
My Granny was awesome at handling all that stuff on the farm. I can remember her opening the feed barrels in the barn and just popping the heads off the mice as she caught em. Yuck!
But the one that really gets us is when a possum was eating her cat food in patio...she went out there to shew it off and it sulled so she wacked it on the patio concrete and killed it and all these possum babies went running out.
Oh Granny!
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Wow...yeah, I'm not that hardcore. 😂 I don't like unnecessary killing of animals. This is a place where DH and I often argue. He's shot many a possum and coon that have gotten into our animal feed. I, on the other hand, feel it's wrong to kill an animal that is just trying to live. I would feel differently if it were an animal were hunting to eat. Since we aren't eating mice (or possum, coons, etc...for that matter), I'm not down with killing them. Instead I rehome them to a state park that's about 5 miles away...and use metal trash cans to hold my feed so they can't get to it. ;)

You should have seen the numerous rows we had about the grey foxes that keep coming around. They've picked off at least a dozen chickens in the past 2 years but I refuse to let DH kill them. Instead I put up nets over the coop to keep my chickens from jumping the fence at dawn. That's helped a lot....
 
AngBantamLuv said:
What if you get a cat? If you raise it as a kitten around the chickens.. well it will probably think its a chicken too!
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DH and I were just discussing that this past weekend. We need a barn cat or two.... A neighborhood stray took up in our barn a few months ago until DH shot it one night thinking it was a fox. Ooooo.....I was livid mad. He knows better than to shoot at things in the dark when you can't see what you are shooting at! To his benefit, he felt really bad about it afterwards and it was a mistake, but I wanted to make darn sure it never happens again.
 

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