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[Hinotori]

We have a mouse in the house. Just what I needed, another pest. The 15 week old male kitten caught it but didn't know how to kill it and it did manage to get away. The GSD has been helping him try and find it.

I'm happy he's showing good mousing ability. All the toys I've gotten the two kittens have been mouse shaped to encourage them.

 

[DeesHens]

Her wound is closed, that is a hard scab on top.

The other girls are being pretty nice to her, considering.

And yesterday she was looking for a place to lay an egg! And she has been squatting for me for a couple weeks.

Here's hoping I find a tiny egg today!

yay Frodo!

hoping with ya for that egg!

 

[DeesHens]

There is nothing like watching an 80 pound german shepherd dog wrestle with a 4 pound kitten. She let the kitten win. Flopped on her side and let him hold on to her head.

Wow! That would be something to see!

BTW Hope you are mite free soon. Sounds very annoying to say the least.

 

[DeesHens]

The hawk came back again today. And guess what? It got in the LF coop with the covered run. They were all locked up and secure, perfectly fine this morning. I did not let them out, and somehow, it got into the coop and attacked the LF in the coop. It definitely killed one. It ended up getting stuck in the coop/run. We were able to get a close look at it. It's a very large Red Tailed Hawk. We are unsure how many it got, as it was totally dark. We did let it out of the run safely for us as we'll as the hawk. But this is bad. Until we figure out how it got in there the girls are staying in the garage. And as soon as I figure out if there are any injuries and how many are left. It's shocking how desperate that thing is for food.

Wow! I am so sorry you are going through this horrible experience with that over zealous hawk. How hard is it to find where the hawk got in the coop so you can secure it? My DH just finished the electric fence around our chicken paddock to keep out the raccoons but now i am getting worried about all these hawk attacks i am reading about. The hawks and eagles fly over our place frequently but haven't seemed so aggressive ... yet. I think we will run electric fence lines over the top now spaced close together. We did that over the fenced yard we have for our Pomeranian dogs as we heard that eagles took the neighbors cats and it has worked. Hope you can find solutions too.

 

[TerrorBird]

We have a mouse in the house. Just what I needed, another pest. The 15 week old male kitten caught it but didn't know how to kill it and it did manage to get away. The GSD has been helping him try and find it.

I'm happy he's showing good mousing ability. All the toys I've gotten the two kittens have been mouse shaped to encourage them.

I've gone downstairs at 1 AM to find all four cats playing with a sad mouse that they've fished up from the basement. It is my job to get it away from them so that I can toss it into the woods. I understand that the mouse will probably die no matter what I do with it, but it's just a mouse. I don't want to clean up the mess the cats will make with him when they stop playing and just kill him.

 

[DeesHens]

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I agree - the joy does outweigh the negatives. I can understand the feelings of stress and worry. I do let mine free-range - I take that chance. They're so happy when they are out, and I keep an eye on them through the window. Any odd calls, and I'm out the sliding glass door like a rocket. I have a small one story house and it is quick and easy to get outside. The not-so-little young ones (Blackie and Latte) are tractor bound again - more due to my inability to catch them if I need to leave the house. But, they still seem happy. They know they are safe from the big girls in there. They have the grass to munch on. The only thing the tractor is missing is dirt to scratch in, so they just scratch on the grass.
I put a large metal oil pan full of dirt in Betsy Barr Rocks tractor run for her to dig and bath in. She loves it! But she also has the grass and this this time of year while our soil is softer from being wet she seems to be digging some bare spots in a matter of days before DH moves the tractor again. Fortunately he has the paddock far enough along now so she got to go out in it for the first time today. It was awesome!

 

[Hinotori]

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I found two moving ones when I checked him today. Both on his earlobe. He shook his head a few times today, but it wasn't very often so most must be gone. So it looks like I just need to keep it in check now.

 

[Greg Richardson]

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Alrighty then back to your regular scheduled programming.
If this was an actual emergency you'd be instructed to bake me 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies!

 

[CusterChknLover]

Thnx Hinotori!

No need for me to keep up, lol.. i basically use this website for informational and learning purposes! although i see myself becoming addicted to BYC

 

[WhiskiRanch]

Angel has up'd her status from pullet to adult hen!!! Icaught her in the act laying an adult sized egg and its a biggy!!! I'm still getting pullet size eggs from at least one of her two full sisters and I'm thinking its blondie because she is the smallest. Is it possible for blondie to have reached adult size and her eggs are just small? They are about half the size of my adult eggs.my oldest batch of babies are still too young to be laying so I know those pullet eggs are coming from Blondie and/babe. Yay to Angel on becoming an adult!!!