The Old Folks Home

[pennyJo1960]

Spent morning going to town so came home cleaned the coop got 5 eggs all in the coop ....
Welcome to OF @Wormhunter

 

[microchick]

And what kind of birds are popular around you?

I have Egyptian Fayoumis, Old English Game Bantams/silver duck wings and BBRs and a bunch of barnyard crosses.

 

[sourland]

@Wormhunter - welcome.

 

[cheepteach]

wormhunters, deerhunters, chocolate hunters, etc. All are welcome!

 

[sourland]

snipe hunters too

 

[microchick]

I've inhaled and ingested enough chocolate the past two days to be in a chocolate induced coma.

Usually I'm pretty strict with my diet. Guess I just need to get it out of my system and hope I do before I have to let my jeans out.

We have some sort of wild animal hanging around driving the dogs crazy and making my chickens nervous. I have heard it at sunset in the forest across the street from us. It's sort of a hoarse howl, making me believe that it's a bobcat. We know we have them around as the neighbor got a pick of one walking the stream bank that separates our properties. I don't know of anything else that could make a noise like this animal is making. At first I thought it might be a yote but usually the dogs start to howl when they hear one and they ain't howling, they are raising Caine! which puts me back at the bobcat thought.

Unless it's a cougar. Oh great. Time to lock and load. I wish we would get enough snow that we could go out and walk the timber and look for prints.

 

[cheepteach]

good luck! we get pestered by coyotes here

 

[microchick]

Oh the only thing Missouri has more of than coyotes is voles. The yotes get the dogs howling and I usually urge them on. I read somewhere that coyotes litter numbers can be affected by how many responses they get to their pack's howling. the more howls they hear in response to their howls, the more packs and pups in the area so their litters are smaller.

I'm sure everyone thinks I'm unhinged howling along with our dogs, but hey, anything to keep the yote population down.

 

[cheepteach]

they are getting more brazen

 

[microchick]

Yes and I would much rather deal with them than a bobby or a cougar.