Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Puddin Fluff]

So sorry about your loss.  Hope you can figure out how to protect the others, wolves are usually in packs?

Thank you. Yes, wolves usually run in packs. That is the other odd thing. This being a lone canine. I feel the birds in the pen are secure, its just the ones who like to let themselves out during the day that are at risk. Maybe this gave them a big enough scare that they will stay in with the others.

 

[sunflour]

@ Puddin Fluff

Can you make revisions to keep them from flying out of the pen?

I would expect they will be nervous today and hopefully stay in, but as time passes, they likely will try it again.

 

[Bunnylady]

Wolves, dogs and coyotes can interbreed; the resulting hybrids can have characteristics that make identification tough. We have "coyotes" around here that may hunt singly, or in a group, at almost any time of day or night.

Sorry about your loss. It's always the favorite, isn't it?

 

[ocap]

My grandfather liked to have hounds and would stay up all night with his friends listening to them chase the wolves of eastern Oklahoma (1960). He could tell the different types of running styles and tell if the prey was fox, wolf or something else. Fast forward to my second home in a rural area, east Texas near Buffalo (1983), and I saw a huge dog chasing a deer, the dog had the color of wolf or coyote and was alone. Several years later (2005), we were hiking in the Great Smokie Mountain National Park, came across a naturalist that admitted that the red wolf introduction into the park was a failure, one of the reasons was cross breeding with the coyote. Another conversation with a park employee of Shenandoah National Park reveled the existence of a large cat and park management trying to keep it secret. In 2011 we talked with a hiker who was night hiking the Appalachian Trail near High Point New Jersey and saw a mountain lion. Last summer I was selling a few chickens to a lady who lives near Smithville Lake in western Missouri and had seen two mountain lions at the same time on her place.

Large predators are alive and well in the USA.

I wonder why the coffee tastes better when the temperature is below 10F.

 

[Highcotton]

Good Morning fellow coffee lovers. I enjoyed that first cup of coffee this chilly morning on my way to work. NOAA said that it was 21 so that means that it was 19 at home. It was 14 yesterday and my F250 diesel would not start. That was a record breaker here in Middle GA. I charged my battery and put a drop light under the hood last night and Big Blue was rearing to go this morning. The chicks were nice and cozy in their warm coops. I went out Tuesday night just after dark to check the feed and to give them fresh water and the Mallards went for a swim and a bath when I put fresh water in their pool as cold as it was, crazy ducks. Have a warm and happy day.

 

[chickadoodles]

'Morning all. I need lots of coffee today. Lost one of our favorite pullets yesterday. Hubby saw it happen. We have a few young ones who like to fly out of the pen and free range on their own. We haven't worried too much about it. We are in the country but with the llamas dogs usually steer clear and hawks are our biggest predator. Hubby heard the chickens squaking and can out of the shop in time to see, what he says was a wolf trotting off with our bird. One of our llamas was headed fr it but they were too far away when it attacked.

This was about 3:30 in the afternoon. Weird circumstances. Officials say there are no wolves in Arkansas but I remember hearing them when I was a kid. What ever it was, it is a new issue to deal with.

Now that he knows you have a food supply he will be back. You should think about making a blind and waiting on him or he will wipe you out. So sorry!

 

[Highcotton]

My grandfather liked to have hounds and would stay up all night with his friends listening to them chase the wolves of eastern Oklahoma (1960). He could tell the different types of running styles and tell if the prey was fox, wolf or something else. Fast forward to my second home in a rural area, east Texas near Buffalo (1983), and I saw a huge dog chasing a deer, the dog had the color of wolf or coyote and was alone. Several years later (2005), we were hiking in the Great Smokie Mountain National Park, came across a naturalist that admitted that the red wolf introduction into the park was a failure, one of the reasons was cross breeding with the coyote. Another conversation with a park employee of Shenandoah National Park reveled the existence of a large cat and park management trying to keep it secret. In 2011 we talked with a hiker who was night hiking the Appalachian Trail near High Point New Jersey and saw a mountain lion. Last summer I was selling a few chickens to a lady who lives near Smithville Lake in western Missouri and had seen two mountain lions at the same time on her place.

Large predators are alive and well in the USA.

I wonder why the coffee tastes better when the temperature is below 10F.

Hunters killed a Mountain Lion a couple of years ago Southwest of Atlanta not far from Newnan. It was published with pictures in the Georgia outdoor news.

When I was in Arkansas in the 60s some of the natives that I went fox hunting with said that they would chase Red Wolves occasionally.

 

[Peep_Show]

We have a red coyote that frequently crosses our property. She's just stunning. Had to build my coop like Fort Knox (Fort Chix?) as the adjacent vacant property has a coyote den or two. The coyotes here (at my property, at least) are desired as they keep the rampant rabbit population checked. Did see one coyote trotting down the street with a neighbor's chicken in its mouth. The neighbor hadn't secured the top of run netting well and the bird popped out. Bad judgment by owner and bird, winner winner chicken dinner for coyote who was at the right place at the right time.

Funny thing is that my dogs are totally nonplussed by the coyotes. They totally ignore the nightly serenades while all the neighborhood dogs work up into a frenzy of barking that lasts long after the feral yipping has stopped.

 

[ChickyChickens]

Emmm...lol our coffee just finsihed **again** and my mom said were only getting again in 2 weeks!

 

[Amberjem]