The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

Here's a surprised coon....I expected to see him explode but he didn't until he figured out he wasn't going anywhere. Still got to weigh him. He's huge.



He kinda tore the snow up and I even had a picture of him hanging upside down from the railing. Still kinda makes me feel bad that we can't coexist.



Came home last nite to an unplowed road....my neighbor, who is retired and notoriously lazy, was at the bar and had left me to do it. I work in the snow all day and come home to a road with snow so deep I can barely make it up the hill to the house while he's drinkin'.
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So I plowed him out and myself out. Then I hung that coon from his outhouse...looks like a freaking bobcat hanging there it's so big and he still hasn't noticed it yet. Watched him come home and he parked his truck within 20 feet of the outhouse with the headlights lighting it up. Have another beer.....

If my dogs didn't do the dirty work for me, I would be forced to take a similar/same route. Most chicken keepers know that coons are just about the apex predator...smart and deadly. Mink/weasels follow closely at second, IMHO. Good job!
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I'd love to see photos of everyone's ideas on this!

@RedRidge and others too!
Is there any other books or resources that you recommend to give me a basic understanding of what you're doing? I am totally ignorant on this subject and don't want to waste a lot of time reading things that I don't need to read....
Looking for recommendations from anyone that does it as to their best resources :D
 
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Woke up this morning and turned on the back porch light.....Oprah jumped off the roost and started singing the egg song.
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YAY! Eggs!

I had a 4 egg day yesterday which if amazing...and no added light. It's just that time of year :D I had 2 pullet eggs in one day!!!! (that's 2 out of 3 laying now). Tiny eggs but a wonderful site to see!

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Girls are out running around in the snow this AM. Fed 'em some fresh spinach which they wolfed down.
No sign of any coon activity last nite. That's a first in a long time!
 
Wonder how long it will take to clear the area of the coons... My first year I got 13 plus 3 kiddo within 3 weeks. Then 2 more a couple months later.
Assume they are always there ...because they are. They can be removed, but after each breeding season, sows kick out the males and they go seeking their own territory, which can be very wide and overlapping.

When I was a young man, I hunted coon with dogs...many times I'd tree two veteran adult males in the same tree, especially in Jan. and Feb....looking for sows.
 

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