The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Scott H]

I agree but they need to be in manageable numbers......it would help if the idiots from town would quit feeding them.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Quote: Yah...I always keep a trap baited with meat the I move around just in case. It's remained pretty thin around here but I'm always vigilant. I saw one in the front yard the other night but it seems to be hanging out in the neighborhood across the street. There used to be a farm field and

it was sold a few years back and, behold, a sub division

.

What do y'all do about weasels?

 

[Leahs Mom]

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[lalaland]

Yah...I always keep a trap baited with meat the I move around just in case. It's remained pretty thin around here but I'm always vigilant. I saw one in the front yard the other night but it seems to be hanging out in the neighborhood across the street. There used to be a farm field and

it was sold a few years back and, behold, a sub division

.

What do y'all do about weasels?

pray.

a guy I hired to jack up the trailer/coop and get it leveled and supported apparently liked to drink on the job. jacked up both ends way too high so the middle was unsupported - end result was the people door is all out of whack and the door doesn't close totally. If you can believe it, the door frame at the top is more teepee than level. SO there are openings a weasel could slip through.

other critters can't get into the run, but a weasel.....oh yeah. not likely but could.

 

[hellbender]

Yah...I always keep a trap baited with meat the I move around just in case. It's remained pretty thin around here but I'm always vigilant. I saw one in the front yard the other night but it seems to be hanging out in the neighborhood across the street. There used to be a farm field and

it was sold a few years back and, behold, a sub division

.

What do y'all do about weasels?

My 'Night Shift' (Patterdale Terriers) takes care of all denizens of the night, including mink and weasels.

Just a note of caution: While coons are generally active at night, the sows are very active during early spring and summer days and nights, teaching and feeding their young.

Although the Patterdales are confined during the time chickens are loose, the Heelers kill or tree lots of coon during daylight hours. Usually when they tree, there is a whole family in one tree....easy pickins'. Sad in a way but it has to be done.

 

[Leahs Mom]

Quote:
Well....more good news (not)

 

[Leahs Mom]

PS: @hellbender

What part of the country are you located in?


ETA: Whoops....just saw it in your signature. Forget it.

 

[hellbender]

Well....more good news (not)

No point in killing the lice and leaving the nits. On a different note...which would you rather...immediate death for the youngsters or slow, lingering death due to starvation or being ripped apart by adult male coons, coyotes or other varmints?

I take the more humane course of action.

 

[hellbender]

PS: @hellbender

What part of the country are you located in?


ETA: Whoops....just saw it in your signature. Forget it.

Yes, I'm a savage hillbilly!

 

[Leahs Mom]

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I wasn't

about killing them. I was

because I didn't realize they were out during the day in the spring.