The Moonshiner's Leghorns

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The Moonshiner said:
Guess that peeing on chickens really worked.
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I guess I'll have to try that next...
The Moonshiner said:
We get foxes every now and again.
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I've seen one running along the back fence line shortly after we moved in. I haven't seen one or tracks from one again. I'm not even sure if it was a Grey or Red fox it was moving so quickly and in the shade. I have seen a red that was hit in the road a couple of miles from the house.
The Moonshiner said:
Bobcat hey? Haven't dealt with one of those yet.
They're around here but few and far between.
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Lucky you. I saw the bobcat on the same fenceline I saw the fox but hadn't seen another one until recently. This one also killed all of my Bourbon Reds save two which I sold so they wouldn't get killed. She's taken a duck. When she got the last turkey hen she also killed all the juvenile White Orpingtons I'd been growing out. On the 3rd with fireworks blowing up all around us she snatched a full grown White hen and killed another pullet. And I found a Splash Orpington hen dead next door so I'm blaming her for that too. I keep waiting for the River Otters to figure out there's tasty chickens not to far from their haunt.
The Moonshiner said:
We used to have huge coyote problems. They'd come right up in the yard in the daytime.
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I hear them but I've only seen one. And she was eating the dead rat snakes I'd killed and tossed into the pasture. It was in broad daylight too. She skulked around but ate her snakes very nervously and then vanished. She didn't pay much mind to the chickens and they just watched her like she was one of the poodles.
 
ColtHandorf said:
Oh, and now something is chewing the toes of chicks up on the wire. I've got traps set but haven't caught anything. I'm betting a raccoon because they can't get their little creepy hands through the wire so they just bite toes.
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Poor dummies.
 
ColtHandorf said:
I'll bet the leghorns start perching a lot earlier. I find Orps are a bit like Cochins and I have to coax/teach them.
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The Red Leghorns that I have are bunching up on the floor, they haven't perched yet. It just so happens I just transfer them out to a halfway house that we call it which is a parrot cage that has 1/2 in by 3in mesh. I've got five perches in there and they don't want to use them. The Easter Eggers that I got for my wife are ina different cage and are perching with no problem all on their own.
I've got two brooder boxes with some Brown Leghorns, Wyandottes and Ameraucana's and those are pretty much perching on their own as well depends on the birds. Our Silkies ,unfortunately and please don't get mad at me but I keep saying they are as dumb as rocks... we try to introduce them even to low perchs they just can't seem to get it only one has learn to perch on her own.
 
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