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[sillycmoy]

I saw on Amazon a night guard that flashes light for night predators, I thought about getting one. What do you guys think.

http://www.amazon.com/Nite-Guard-NG...d=1367210483&sr=8-7&keywords=chicken+supplies

 

[RedIII]

My neighbor calls on everyone, there is always a cop that is on the street sometime during the week for something or other. He knows better then to call the cops on us, he did it once when we first moved in to the house, reason...Sprinklers was watering his fence, which is a shared fence, and it was hitting the fence on our side of the fence, my husband really let him have it for that. Made him feel like an idiot in front of the cop. He has called on my dogs a few times for barking, and I was out in the yard and they were barking at me. I do dog agility, and I was outside practicing in the middle of the day, and my dogs just bark their heads off when we are playing. Funny thing is I know all of animal control, because I do rescue, and they have to respond. But he calls animal control on everyone's dogs that bark, and even if a cat walks in his yard. I know he has called a few times on our other neighbor who has chickens, he said they were digging out his bushes through the fence or something like that, and so I know they put up chicken wire along the wooden fence. He has nothing better to do I guess, very old grumpy old man.

When is his birthday? Maybe you could get him a pair of ear muffs

Welcome, Eveyander. I'm sorry you've had such rotten luck with your chickens. You should take some pictures of your coop and we could give you some suggestions on how to make it more predator proof. Something to keep in mind is that turkeys and chickens don't mix well when they get bigger- the turkeys often hurt the chickens once they're a lot bigger. Red keeps both; hopefully she can give better advice than me.

Acemario, good looking chicks. They don't fall into my area of confidence, so I wouldn't dare guess genders. The second one just looks girly to me, don't know why.

Sillymcoy, that rooster is sure going to be a good looking guy. I hope you find a great home for him.

Cynthia, I want to see your chicks once they're fluffed out. sounds like some very pretty birds.

Buffbard, I have a coronation sussex and a speckled sussex hen, but no sussex roosters, so I couldn't get a purebreed sussex for you, sorry!

I got another 8 eggs today. So excited that production is finally picking up.

I have another adorable photo of my bantam broody frizzle with her babies. It's been so cute to watch her with them.




Also, I am concerned about my coronation sussex. I've thought for a while that she's overweight, headed into obese. Lately, her crop is always huge, morning or night. I've felt it, and it doesn't feel hard or anything, and she seems to smell fine, so I don't think she has impacted or sour crop. She runs around and acts totally normal. She honestly just acts like she's fat. Is that possible? The way I have my feeder set up, they have free access to food at all times. I'm afraid if I separate her out to get her away from the food, that will be more traumatic. Any ideas?

She was just about to shake her feathers, which is why her neck feathers appear a little fluffed funny.

I would guess that your Sussex is just a piggy and eats, eats, eats. My birds get food throughout the day as chicks when they are growing a lot, but when they're older, then get fed twice a day - morning and afternoon. They're free to range and eat whatever else they can find, and we do give them scraps and treats. My chickens get a bulging crop like that when they've been eating all day. Maybe check on the Sussex thread and see what the folks there have to say?

Hello All. I'm new to BYC and chickens but really enjoying this new adventure and loving this post. I live in Riverton and have 6 chicks. Four are 5 weeks and two are 2 weeks old. I got them all from IFA where they say the hen rate is about 90% so well find out soon. Looking forward to eggs in about 4 months :-/

Welcome! If your luck is like mine, you'll be getting eggs around month 8..............Although that doesn't always happen

It seems like most people here have had their pullets start on time.

Hi Pancake, I'm Ally I am afraid I don't know how to respond accurately, with the quote in the string, but hopefully I'll figure that out. I have one each of EE, BO, RIR, White Leghorn, Golden Campine, Silver Laced Wyandotte. How old are yours? Where do you live?

On the bottom right of each post, you will see the Multi and Quote buttons. When you are just responding to one post, click Quote on that post, and it will make a copy of it in the editor, where you can type your answer. If you want to respond to more than one post at a time, simply hit Multi on each post you want to quote, and then on the last post you're quoting, hit Quote instead of multi. It will make a copy of all of the posts you marked, and in the order you clicked them. You can move to different pages in the same thread and still have Multi quotes marked, and likewise, you can click Multi on a post to UNselect it, if you decide you don't want to respond to that one, after all. Hope that helps

I had one kill one of my Silkies when it was young. I have a large flock of wild doves every summer. Last year i counted at least 20 doves on the tele wire above the coop. The falcons move in and chase the doves all around the neighbor hood and this draws the attention of larger birds like hawks. I lost our buff Silkie roo last year to a small hawk. Luckly we have a pair of crows that have made our neighbor hood their home in the spring, but once their chicks have left they nest the move on and the stupid birds of prey move in. I have 2 telephone polls in the back yard and was thinking of buying a couple of those fake owls and paying a city worker to put them on top of the poles. I dont know if this works but its worth a chance.

I have heard that those owls work well. We have a Cooper's hawk that has been hanging around here since last fall. It was checking out my flock again the other day, so I stayed out there until it left. I found out that the family of magpies nesting in our neighbor's tree like to police the hawk when it comes around, which is fine with me. I'd rather lose a couple of eggs to the magpies than a chicken to the hawk.

You guys have me all nervous about leaving my 2 babies outside tonight. It's their first time all night outside in the coop, but I feel they are ready, one is actually been ready for a week or more, but didn't want her outside by herself. So I have a 7-8 week old and an almost 6 week old, both BR outside LOCKED inside the coop. They are also inside the fully enclosed run with hardware cloth apron, but all this talk about falcons, makes me nervous to leave them out, even though there is no way they will break inside the actual coop. But I live up really close to AF Canyon, and we get large birds all the time, and we have an Owl who I swear lives in one of our Pine Tree's. That's why we have the coop under the deck, fully enclosed so nothing can hopefully get inside the run at night. Plus we have Doves, tons and tons of Doves, and I never thought about them killing the chicks. I was planning on keeping them all locked up in the run till they are all pretty big to free range during the day, cause I'm worried about the Magpies, they dive bomb my dogs all the time.

I think they will be fine.So long as that coop is meshed/closed in pretty tight and the chicks stay warm enough in there, they'll be okay. I need to do repairs on my coop and run soon, for fear of the coons that haunt this area. My general rule is if I can get in, a coon can get in, and if the chicken can get out, the coon can get in. But it sounds like your chicks will be fine.

I have a little pen I put my teenagers in during the day, it was just open on top but I j had to start putting a sheet of plywood over the top because I had a magpie jump in there and peck one of their eyeballs out. Ewwww it made me mad, and sad, that one of my babies got hurt like that. Now I am pretty paranoid about the little ones being unprotected in the yard until they are much bigger. I had not idea prior to that , that magpies were vicious like that. It caught me off guard!

Ewwwww.........Yeah, magpies can be jerks. I don't leave my chicks unattended with them around. I'm too scared they would carry one off. Sorry about your chicken

HELP!
My son rescued this teeny baby from being smooshed in his cow pasture. The bitty thing isn't using the one leg that's curled up under it.
Here is the thing, I have NO knowledge of duckies. We gave it water and scrambled egg which it scarffed down. It is in a little brooder. What now? Chick starter?

This is purely a guess from my end, but until you can confirm that it is safe, I would say do NOT give that baby medicated chick crumbles. I know that with turkeys, it's toxic. Ducks probably aren't the same way, and I am a worrywart. So that is just my paranoid warning

 

[Desert Springs]

HELP!
My son rescued this teeny baby from being smooshed in his cow pasture. The bitty thing isn't using the one leg that's curled up under it.
Here is the thing, I have NO knowledge of duckies. We gave it water and scrambled egg which it scarffed down. It is in a little brooder. What now? Chick starter?

Think Shawn has ducks... yikes... or maybe the feed store would know. The internet??

You may want to splint that bad leg if it's hurt. Those babies heal super fast when they have some support on an injury.

Sorry I couldn't help more!!

 

[RedIII]

Well I thought about it, and brought them back inside, they are in a x large dog crate with no lights or anything, I will put them all out at the end of the week, when I think the other 4 can go out with them. Then there will be 6 outside in the coop to keep warm with.

Magpies are horrid. They like to get the Robin's nests out of our pine trees, we have a few very large pine trees, and the Magpies just raid them. Last summer my terrier mix got it so bad from one that he needed stitches. And he is a 23 lb dog. Not sure if he caught the bird and that's how he got hurt, because he came inside with a mouth full of black and white feathers, and I had about 5 Magpies circling the yard, screaming their heads off. But they are awful. I told my husband that once the girls are out free ranging, I'm going to sit all day long with his airsoft gun, and shoot any that flys over head. So I'm sure my girls will be locked up in their run till they are huge, and I think one is a bantam, so I'm not sure if I will ever let her out. LOL

Aww, poor doggie! Magpies act like gangsters, it seems. My grandma had an older cat that they would torment. And they are very observant. I "talk" to them sometimes when I'm outside, just to weird them out. They shut up and look at me like, "What the heck was that?" I've never had a problem with them, other than when they started stealing my chicken eggs, but I let them know when they've come too far into my turf. I just throw things at them, run at them, turn on the hose, things like that. We generally have an understanding, magpies and I

I do not mind them, but when they cross the line, they will pay for it.

 

[PancakeShiners]

Cyndi, there is someone in my FFA chapter I could ask for you. She raises ducks.

I want a duck now... LOL

 

[sillycmoy]

HELP!
My son rescued this teeny baby from being smooshed in his cow pasture. The bitty thing isn't using the one leg that's curled up under it.
Here is the thing, I have NO knowledge of duckies. We gave it water and scrambled egg which it scarffed down. It is in a little brooder. What now? Chick starter?

Don't give it Medicated Chick Start, you should be fine with Regular Chick Start till you can get duck starter. I know they can also eat chopped up fruits and Vegs, they love lettuce but very chopped up since its so tiny, I just know someone who use to have a duck, but they don't have them anymore. When it gets a little bigger you can give it worms, and crickets etc. So dang cute, makes me want a duck now.

Good Luck

 

[Desert Springs]

I saw on Amazon a night guard that flashes light for night predators, I thought about getting one. What do you guys think.

http://www.amazon.com/Nite-Guard-NG...d=1367210483&sr=8-7&keywords=chicken+supplies

There should be a review rating on that. I checked into those once but instead bought a plastic owl to put on the top eave of my house. The owl didn't work but the fake fur stole did that I used next (learned that from my great grandmother who used to put fake fur in her trees to make the birds think there were cats waiting for them...lol).

 

[Cynthia12]

HELP!
My son rescued this teeny baby from being smooshed in his cow pasture. The bitty thing isn't using the one leg that's curled up under it.
Here is the thing, I have NO knowledge of duckies. We gave it water and scrambled egg which it scarffed down. It is in a little brooder. What now? Chick starter?

cyndi, there are duck lovers gallore on here. Type in wild duck thread, see what pops up. Or just duck thread? Maybe you already have. I know there is duck starter. No medicated for this one, I agree with Red..I think I did read that somewhere. Good luck, sure is a cute little one.

 

[thebirdguy]

DON'T give medicated feed to ducks...

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok, two of the black babies have feathered legs! Marans! She's getting a phone call tomorrow for sure! lol...I am pretty sure that the blue eggs came from her BBS pen.. I did get a couple of splash, and one black so far. But where did those Marans come from? he he.. There is one really light blue..maybe a lavender? Oh I don't know. They are pretty though.