Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[drstratton]

Another question about native plants...
I have noticed that some of my chickens have very red faces. I was wondering about photo sensitivity possibility from the plants I had been giving my chickens from the property. On some Toxic lists most of my plants are on there and some can cause this. How do you know if a chickens face is too red, or normal?

I personally have never heard of this, but I would suggest that you quit feeding them the plants that they say can cause the issue! Then you can see if they improve or not!

 

[Hinotori]

We have a wide variety of predators that have come in here. Cougars, brown bears, coyotes, eagles, hawks, raccoons, weasels. The dogs help discourage the bigger ones.

I've only lost birds to neighbor dog, hawks, opossum, and weasels. The dog isn't an issue anymore as they left it to wander and it got hit out on the main road. The opossum was harrassed off by my dogs and I set weasel traps and set the dogs in the locked pen for a while.

Only garter snakes here. I have to save them from the cats occasionally.

 

[pennyJo1960]

My chickens eat the garter snakes need to clean some coops

 

[Starburst]

My chickens eat the garter snakes need to clean some coops

They eat the snakes? Wow...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Need to clean my coops back later

 

[Hinotori]

Yes they will eat small snakes. The garters here stay well away from the chickens.

 

[Starburst]

I guess my chickens are just extremely picky. Then again, they refuse to eat their veggies...I'm still trying to figure that one out.

 

[Hinotori]

Different birds have different likes. I have quite a few right now that won't even touch a worm.

I toss leftovers out so large fowl can get it. One of the dogs will eat what they don't like for the most part.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Even took a shower half way to human but coops cleaned for today .. New gal in real Estate also cut's hair doing BF's hair today at 2 he keeps in clean fairly short ... Cooking outside tonight too hot down here to do it in

 

[drstratton]

I have some that won't eat worms either, but there are others that go crazy over them.