You should take it out and get comfortable with it. It will have a heck of a recoil.
If you're afraid of guns you might just want to get a .22 - it will dispatch many predators up to about a fox size without much recoil. Comes in both handgun and long gun types, whichever you'd prefer. One of my .22 rifles even has a swap out barrel for a .410 (a smaller version of the 12 gauge) but I don't use the .410 often. I've got the Walther handgun that has a regular magazine, and one with a revolver (1870s Cattleman replica, 12 shot). The .22 caliber is far and away my favorite. If something is happening, it's the .22 I go to, despite owning pretty much every caliber made in multiple types of guns. It's cheap to buy ammo for, and the Walther is really light with almost no recoil.
Unless I have a bear or a giraffe in my run, I'd grab the .22
X2 And you won't be completely deaf if you forget your earplugs. But earplugs are preferred .
My fave is still the pellet gun. Lots o rats. But definitely .22 is my next favorite. I don't mind a shotgun. Our employers had a double barrel..but only one barrel worked. Everyone had to load both barrels because it was used so rarely no one could remember which one worked...lol! But earplugs....don't forget the earplugs. Hearing is the one thing I've still got. I wanna keep it.
You should take it out and get comfortable with it. It will have a heck of a recoil.
If you're afraid of guns you might just want to get a .22 - it will dispatch many predators up to about a fox size without much recoil. Comes in both handgun and long gun types, whichever you'd prefer. One of my .22 rifles even has a swap out barrel for a .410 (a smaller version of the 12 gauge) but I don't use the .410 often. I've got the Walther handgun that has a regular magazine, and one with a revolver (1870s Cattleman replica, 12 shot). The .22 caliber is far and away my favorite. If something is happening, it's the .22 I go to, despite owning pretty much every caliber made in multiple types of guns. It's cheap to buy ammo for, and the Walther is really light with almost no recoil.
Unless I have a bear or a giraffe in my run, I'd grab the .22
Its a Mossberg with two barrels long and short. and The predators are people... sorry to say. I dont know anyone that doesnt know the sound of a shotgun being cocked. I have a neighbor who can teach me once I move back home. And I have heard I can load it with lighter shells for target or practice. I can practice on my own land I believe...
But I am liking the idea of the 22... I could sell the shot gun
Why would it be carrying the baby??? As soon as you said it "dropped a baby" I assumed it had to be a marsupial.....so opossum.
I know "regular" mamals carry their babies about at times, but it is RARE that they move their nest...and good grief...to move your nest/babies to the middle of a screaming hord of poultry? Makes so little sense.
Why would it be carrying the baby??? As soon as you said it "dropped a baby" I assumed it had to be a marsupial.....so opossum.
I know "regular" mamals carry their babies about at times, but it is RARE that they move their nest...and good grief...to move your nest/babies to the middle of a screaming hord of poultry? Makes so little sense.
Fear not...above was Cynthia on December 3. This is her a couple days ago. She's on this end with the blue...lol.
She was already fully feathered back in January.
Maybe your neighbours are like me.
I'd love to have a rooster next door if I was in an urban setting.
I actually have one, maybe two roosters who have a muted type crow. Funnier than heck! Quieter than a hen cackling. I have no idea why they're muted.
Yep...definite fertility.(how did you know?) Those young fall cockerels in the back are ready. My one purebred Ameraucauna pullet snuck into the back with me without me noticing and her eggs are fertile.
I had 5 broodies...now that I've taken the golf balls away and have been lifting them out of the nest every so often, the one Silkie and the one OEGB are on the fence. Tonight I kenneled the 3 determined Silkies so they won't be on the nests tomorrow when I'm away. Talk about temptation with fertile eggs and broody hens.
And yes, she lays a true blue egg too.
I've moved a few of the less aggressive cockerels across to the rooster building. I hope to move the rest on Sunday.
I have some eggs with the olive spots and one looks like a camouflage egg...and the paint comes off when I wash them. I have eggs that should be blue but the hen/pullet is only painting them halfway down...stripey eggs...lol!
The one olive egg I get has so far stayed olive.
Still don't know who lays it.
I remember you were really happy to get an olive egg! That's interesting it's lightened. Maybe that'll change back again.
