The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

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Happy Easter all!!

Happy Easter to u also. We are at church in the nursery.

 

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I stumbled upon this thread ladt week, now i am totally obsessed with the look of all of these birds! They are all so beautiful!! How does one even begin to start a small flock of these beauties? Shipped eggs? I am in massachusetts. I especially love lavanders and blacks!

There are plenty of people on here who sell chicks, juveniles and some eggs also. We raise Lavenders and are just starting with Black Orps.

 

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We have a predator issue right now and I went out last night at midnight to do a once through and he had already struck( luckily it was a cull). Smothered when I saw the kids had left the mottleds out in their run while I was starting a new chicken coop. Thankfully they were ok.

 

[DCchicken]

We have a predator issue right now and I went out last night at midnight to do a once through and he had already struck( luckily it was a cull). Smothered when I saw the kids had left the mottleds out in their run while I was starting a new chicken coop. Thankfully they were ok.

Sorry to hear that. I am dealing with a fox right now. Every time I see him he is like 10 feet away but my gun is sill in the house.

 

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Sorry to hear that. I am dealing with a fox right now. Every time I see him he is like 10 feet away but my gun is sill in the house.

I am wondering what mine is, it eats nearly everything except the bones, legs, feet, head and feathers. Usually one every other night. Sometimes every night.

 

[rockinpaints]

I am wondering what mine is, it eats nearly everything except the bones, legs, feet, head and feathers. Usually one every other night. Sometimes every night.

Sounds like a raccoon. Weasels eat their head and leave the rest of the body - sometimes they kill just to be killing and leave the entire chicken/chickens in a blood bath...... Owls and birds of pry usually start with the insides. (Over the years we have actually dealt with each one of these predictors.)
I think a fox just takes them and run, I've seen them running down our road with a chicken in their mouth

(not mine thank goodness), We have them but our dog keeps them chased away.

 

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Sounds like a raccoon. Weasels eat their head and leave the rest of the body - sometimes they kill just to be killing and leave the entire chicken/chickens in a blood bath...... Owls and birds of pry usually start with the insides. (Over the years we have actually dealt with each one of these predictors.)
I think a fox just takes them and run, I've seen them running down our road with a chicken in their mouth

(not mine thank goodness), We have them but our dog keeps them chased away.

I wondered that possibility, we had never had one but first time for everything.

 

[rockinpaints]

I wondered that possibility, we had never had one but first time for everything.

Weasels and raccoons are brutal on poultry and probably the most common predators. At least raccoons are a little easier to trap/kill, weasels are nearly impossible to trap.
Good luck, I hope you catch the culprit!

 

[DCchicken]

We have both weasels and foxes. The foxes are getting worse by the day. All these suburbs keep being built on the edge of my property. So it pushes them onto my wooded property. When I asked the state for help, they just sent me a permit and told me to shoot them.

That was helpful.

 

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What do u bait your trap with for a Raccoon. I have been told candy. I tried Tuna no luck.