So, with the new roosters comes the removal of the other rooster. I had one as a spare through winter, just in case something happened to Fabio. Didn't really like how the younger rooster was turning out, anyway, so yesterday he went to crock pot camp. This morning I awoke to the delicious smell of chicken slow cooking, YUMMY. Meat was so tender, falling off the bone, so deboned the crock pot contents to chicken stock and meat- and added carrots, onion, and celery (with Dana Carvey's choppin' broccoli song rolling in my head)- plucked 2 eggs from under a hen and made up some noodles- and have set the chicken/veggies to slow cook a bit before I add the noodles. Smells so delicious, can't wait for homemade chicken noodle soup for lunch!
We have a skunk that visits our barn a lot. It really smells and it loves to eat eggs, but it has never managed to get any chickens to my knowledge. Skunks aren't very good hunters, they are slow, not good at jumping or climbing, and easily startled. They rarely go after anything besides chicks or perhaps silkies.
I'm not saying he is wrong, just saying that you might end up like we did, catching a raccoon in place of a skunk. Actually we caught a raccoon, a skunk and an opossum.
I agree, it doesn't sound like a skunk. While they could kill a chicken, I highly doubt they would kill the entire flock.
Most animals will only kill what they can eat. However, a raccoon will kill just for fun. Opossums are vicious as well. If all of the bodies were gone, it could have been a pack of coyotes.
Update
4 silkies hatched
And 4 cream legbar Roos and 4 cream legbar hens
There is still two more eggs not piped but I don't think they will hatch
As it is day 22 but I will leave them afew more days
Not bad 12 out of 14
Update
4 silkies hatched
And 4 cream legbar Roos and 4 cream legbar hens
There is still two more eggs not piped but I don't think they will hatch
As it is day 22 but I will leave them afew more days
Not bad 12 out of 14
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Update
4 silkies hatched
And 4 cream legbar Roos and 4 cream legbar hens
There is still two more eggs not piped but I don't think they will hatch
As it is day 22 but I will leave them afew more days
Not bad 12 out of 14
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and added carrots, onion, and celery (with Dana Carvey's choppin' broccoli song rolling in my head)-
