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[Cloverleaf Farm]

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I myself prefer Jack Daniel's.

Pendleton here!!

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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We who used to live in the midwest can tell you that there are many, many, (too many) over there...

 

[SadieSue]

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Beautiful but scary. Yes, I typically listen to our wild birds for alarms, check the trees, (we are surrounded by giant firs on all sides of the yard) and watch for movement in the branches when I'm home. So now I'm thinking more and more that everyone had just better stay locked up for the next week. Poor girls.

thanks, Dana, for protecting the grandchicks ...

I think you're wise to keep them cooped while you're gone .. just warn your neighbors that Ms. Loudmouth is only letting off steam temporarily ....

maybe the cabbage-on-a-rope trick will keep them occupied for a few days

I already talked to DH about moving that flock block we bought at Wilco last weekend into the run so the girls have something to peck at. And while I'm out running errands today maybe I'll pick up a cabbage. I'm not too clever, but maybe I can tie some twine around it and hang it from the rafters in the coop. A swinging head of cabbage in the run should scare the heck out of them for a day or so.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

I had nothing else lined up for today, so I drove to Fall City to look at the latest CL find. Now I'm a little ambivalent. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pics.

This coop is 8x4 and VERY heavy. I think it would take several people to lift it. It would also require a full bed pickup (or some kind of trailer) to get it back here. It's not beautiful (kind of grungy, actually), painted white with shingles. I guess it's fairly well constructed, but it's no work of art. The area inside under the roosts has screen on it (he thought the poop would fall through - didn't work so well), so I'd be apt to cover it, I think. The $300 includes several metal posts, a decent wood door that he made, quite a bit of fencing (I think hogwire?), and then a tarp and plastic mesh stuff that he put on the top. Oh, and there are nine laying hens (mostly RIR and some kind of silver laced, I think, and a SS), although the son's family may keep a couple of them. Since I don't have room for them, I could probably get $50 or so back from selling them. I just don't know if it's worth all the effort. Also, given how heavy it is, I might have trouble getting it over/through my fence. It's not like we could back a truck into my back yard.

 

[cheryl98117]

Brousing through CL and found these. Maby someone here could use them!

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/grd/2635657646.html

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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thanks, Dana, for protecting the grandchicks ...

I think you're wise to keep them cooped while you're gone .. just warn your neighbors that Ms. Loudmouth is only letting off steam temporarily ....

maybe the cabbage-on-a-rope trick will keep them occupied for a few days

I already talked to DH about moving that flock block we bought at Wilco last weekend into the run so the girls have something to peck at. And while I'm out running errands today maybe I'll pick up a cabbage. I'm not too clever, but maybe I can tie some twine around it and hang it from the rafters in the coop. A swinging head of cabbage in the run should scare the heck out of them for a day or so.

Just make extra sure that the twine is SUPER secure at the other end...we had someone bring one of their chickens into the emergency clinic with a piece of twine hanging out of her mouth that had been used to hang a cabbage....it went all the way through her...wasn't much to be done because the owner couldn't afford surgery, so we cut it as far down as we could and hoped it would pass....

 

[TheReidHomestead]

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I already talked to DH about moving that flock block we bought at Wilco last weekend into the run so the girls have something to peck at. And while I'm out running errands today maybe I'll pick up a cabbage. I'm not too clever, but maybe I can tie some twine around it and hang it from the rafters in the coop. A swinging head of cabbage in the run should scare the heck out of them for a day or so.

Just make extra sure that the twine is SUPER secure at the other end...we had someone bring one of their chickens into the emergency clinic with a piece of twine hanging out of her mouth that had been used to hang a cabbage....it went all the way through her...wasn't much to be done because the owner couldn't afford surgery, so we cut it as far down as we could and hoped it would pass....

Oh that poor chicky!

 

[Kaneke]

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I already talked to DH about moving that flock block we bought at Wilco last weekend into the run so the girls have something to peck at. And while I'm out running errands today maybe I'll pick up a cabbage. I'm not too clever, but maybe I can tie some twine around it and hang it from the rafters in the coop. A swinging head of cabbage in the run should scare the heck out of them for a day or so.

Just make extra sure that the twine is SUPER secure at the other end...we had someone bring one of their chickens into the emergency clinic with a piece of twine hanging out of her mouth that had been used to hang a cabbage....it went all the way through her...wasn't much to be done because the owner couldn't afford surgery, so we cut it as far down as we could and hoped it would pass....

the ones I've seen were with a hole bored THROUGH the center of the cabbage, with a disk of some sort on the bottom to keep the cabbage from falling off

and with a sturdier sort of rope to hang it with -- yeah, I notice chickens will tend to eat anything long and slender ... they eat some of the paper shreds I use for nest boxes

 

[Mia_]

I have had my pullets for 18 weeks and 2 days. When will they start laying?

They are Dark Cornish and a Buff Cochin from McMurry Hatchery.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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We who used to live in the midwest can tell you that there are many, many, (too many) over there...

I don't see very many. Since 79 when we moved here I have seen about 5 Eagles.