The Old Folks Home

[ronott1]

Agreed. And ask yourself questions. How does this particular issue effect me my family my community then my country.

Yes, you must also look at who is funding the sites and the age of the information. Stuff form 50 years ago has little baring on today.

Like a drug company that funds research that shows that their drug is good. Lots of that at Universities.

 

[lindalouly]

Its a very scary world in which we live. I wake up most days hearing about a shooting in the community. I force my teens to keep cell phones on them at school. Its hard to know what the answer is to fix all of this.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: It's just the way you phrased it. That's all.

 

[chickadoodles]

Diva and Kathy I finally saw the Blue Jay momma going to the nest this afternoon. So relieved. Usually we find them dead on the ground. The little trees she picks are not any bigger than my dogs.

 

[casportpony]

Diva and Kathy I finally saw the Blue Jay momma going to the nest this afternoon. So relieved. Usually we find them dead on the ground. The little trees she picks are not any bigger than my dogs.

-Kathy

 

[chickadoodles]

Our pears have been falling off the tree so this morning we picked some and I will be canning them for a couple days.


Going to teach my Dd # 3 how to make pear preserves.

 

[Alaskan]

Just.........


Just........

Horrid bad.

So, my veggie yard coop, that I have been using for years with ZERO losses... Nice fence, and I have a net over the top... It is also solid weeds, so great cover.....

Turns out "something" (I think a great horned owl), took 26 grow-outs out of that pen before I noticed.... Left me 6, only 2 girls. There goes the money I was gonna make this year to help pay for feed........

Then, Friday night, that same owl (I am guessing) wedged itself through the tiny open vents on my pond coop, and ate our sweet broody mama and her 4 chicks one month old (two females of a wonderful color), and then this morning I go to the bantam coop and find 3 (the least loved, and least valued, and least valuable) chickens standing up on the high beam that is in the run.

I look around, and all of the beloved (a few 4 year old pets) and highly valuable (my breeding stock from pips and peeps -wheaten Ameraucanas) and beloved chickens and rooster.. All on the ground, here and there, dead.

A stoat (tiny weasel) got in through the 1" by 2" wire fence, bit their throats, drank their blood...then killed the next..... Except for on girl that it ate a bit of, and tried to drag through the fence.....

My three most lovely bantam wheaten girls, two had perfect coloring.

My bantam wheaten rooster....

The tiny little d'anver girl that my kids adored....

Their 4 year old pets that I had promissed that we would keep forever......

All gone.


AND I had just gotten rid of ALL of the grow-outs yesterday.....

I texted the guy that took the bantam wheaten ameraucana cockerels..... An hour after he finished butchering the last one....

Yep... No One else has them in the state of Alaska.

Now I am wondering how I am going to catch the stoat.... Wondering how I can keep the great horned owl from my stock......

I have a mass of baby muscovy ducklings right now...... Today...... Maybe not tomorrow.

That bantam coop was a great coop...it withstood a black bear last year.... Those stoats though, can get in a gap that is one inch square....

 

[Ravynscroft]

Oh, no!!!!

I got nothing, Alaskan... just...

 

[ronott1]

Just.........


Just........

Horrid bad.

So, my veggie yard coop, that I have been using for years with ZERO losses... Nice fence, and I have a net over the top... It is also solid weeds, so great cover.....

Turns out "something" (I think a great horned owl), took 26 grow-outs out of that pen before I noticed.... Left me 6, only 2 girls. There goes the money I was gonna make this year to help pay for feed........

Then, Friday night, that same owl (I am guessing) wedged itself through the tiny open vents on my pond coop, and ate our sweet broody mama and her 4 chicks one month old (two females of a wonderful color), and then this morning I go to the bantam coop and find 3 (the least loved, and least valued, and least valuable) chickens standing up on the high beam that is in the run.

I look around, and all of the beloved (a few 4 year old pets) and highly valuable (my breeding stock from pips and peeps -wheaten Ameraucanas) and beloved chickens and rooster.. All on the ground, here and there, dead.

A stoat (tiny weasel) got in through the 1" by 2" wire fence, bit their throats, drank their blood...then killed the next..... Except for on girl that it ate a bit of, and tried to drag through the fence.....

My three most lovely bantam wheaten girls, two had perfect coloring.

My bantam wheaten rooster....

The tiny little d'anver girl that my kids adored....

Their 4 year old pets that I had promissed that we would keep forever......

All gone.


AND I had just gotten rid of ALL of the grow-outs yesterday.....

I texted the guy that took the bantam wheaten ameraucana cockerels..... An hour after he finished butchering the last one....

Yep... No One else has them in the state of Alaska.

Now I am wondering how I am going to catch the stoat.... Wondering how I can keep the great horned owl from my stock......

I have a mass of baby muscovy ducklings right now...... Today...... Maybe not tomorrow.

That bantam coop was a great coop...it withstood a black bear last year.... Those stoats though, can get in a gap that is one inch square....

I am so sorry!

When does the owl hunt? Can you get the chooks into a secure coop before then?

Most places here need to keep the chickens inside a very secure coop--all openings covered with hardware cloth--after dusk.

 

[chickadoodles]

Oh Alaskan I am so sorry! Oh my goodness!