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[Nyrial]

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Oh me likey, thank you!

Now if DH would let me buy my pony instead of fixing the car..

 

[RonB]

Weaveagarden
HEY,welcome back

Missed ya

I'll tell you the same thing I tell my kids ! " You should listen to me"

Yep white eggs good, brown eggs bad here too One of my golden sex-link hasn't laid an egg in 11 days. I have given her a warm bath then dried her with the wifes hair dryer. Today I gently stuck my finger up her vent (she didn't seem to mind) couldn't feel anything

Tonight I will put her by herself to see if she is pooping ok

Chicken Rustler
Hey

on your perfect day

I would have had a perfect day five out of seven days this week if it wasn't for my sex-link being on strike or plugged up

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I see Weavea must have spent tooo much time out in the hot sun while in AZ. I seem to remember before she went brown eggs were better.

 

[T Hi]

',IS THERE ANYONE IN THE BONNEY LAKE/BUCKLEY AREA WHO KNOWS HOW TO VENT SEX DUCKLINGS PROPERLY?

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Country feed is maybe getting in some runners this week and will call me when they do. But they will be strait run and the guy there said that they don't know how to sex them. I only want females.

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Please Please Please!!! Anyone??? I will buy Starbucks!!!​

 

[Eagle2026]

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I won the silent auction on two sets of eggs.
1st was 8 Americana eggs
2nd was a dz Barnevelder eggs from a ra'nound breeder from Blk. Diamond.
I am verry happy.
Mike

 

[Eagle2026]

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Hopefully she's not really eating it, just having a taste? Or pecking at the floor beneath it for creepy crawly things? However, I use straw as bedding, not shavings, so hopefully it is just new to her and she was just checking it out. I can't imagine it would be good for her to keep on eating it!! I'd just keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't keep at it.

Tamara

White chips or pine chips is okay as they wont kill her.
Cedar on the other hand is lethal. That's why no BYC people put it in there coops to help with lice and mite problems.
Nothing to worry.
Mike

 

[L0rraine]

The eagles are decimating my flock!

Saturday morning they got my beloved drake William. Two years ago we had problems and I ran ribbon over their runs at 6' intervals. It seemed to do the trick, we hadn't had a problem (in the runs) since. Then a few weeks ago we lost a hen to what really appeared to be an eagle -- feathers every where and the skeleton picked clean. I filled in the gaps with heavy twine and narrowed things down to three feet intervals. We lost another hen though it wasn't clear it was a predator because there was no sign of trauma and the hen was just outside the house (and I found her first thing in the morning like it had happened in the middle of the night). Then Saturday morning, sometime between sun up and 9:00ish I lost William. He was in my Runner duck run - six foot fence with ribbon and twine run along the top. Sooooo, I wove the twine in all runs to make a crosswise weave (makes it darn hard to move around in the 4' high pen) and still lost one when I was off babysitting for my daughter today - two hens and two ducks in about two weeks. Everyone is in lock down IN THEIR HOUSES! until I can figure something out. The neighbor (who shares the chickens with me) thought we should string wire (it will make the 4' high run really difficult to negotiate). I also discussed that someone here had also had some success with netting. I have some ideas of things to try tomorrow and Wednesday - but if anyone has in thoughts, PLEASE 'shout' them out. ALL have been lost from their pens and not while free ranging with the dog. The drake I lost today was really pretty good buds with my dog who was probably barking like crazy while I was gone and he was trapped inside - but both my neighbors pointed out I never seem to lose anyone when he's in the yard. I'm ready for a couple of geese?! Do they deter the birds of prey?

Other than the one hen, all the victims have been picked clean (it has to be eagles) and our neighbor, with the sheep, said she and her boyfriend had noticed two eagles sitting in our trees sometime on Sunday - and they've really been flying low over the property for days. AAAARRRRGGGGG -

Maybe I just need a dog and a few cats and should give all this small farm stuff up.

 

[Eagle2026]

Sorry,
I know this is totally out in left field, but, I just upgrated and I want everyone to see.

I hope your sitting down!
DREAM COME TRUE!!!

Well, what do ya think?

Mike

 

[RonB]

Lorraine
How big is your run? I ran 2" chicken wire over mine. I had to use some T-posts and plastic pipe to hold it up,but it did the trick

Chicken Rustler
All the rain here in Wa. was rusting Weave's brain. when she got to AZ she dried out and got her senses back. and was able to think clearly again

 

[Greg Richardson]

Lorraine. I use old CD's, DVD's, Software discs, on top of fence...........

The reflection is suppose to keep birds away. Never seen any bird near the runs yet they are every where else in the yard. Eagles never come near the yard only fly high over it.

We have an Eagles nest less then a 100ft away and they don't come near them. They fly over our property but thats it. Every time I find an old one I take it out there and stick it on the fence.
If you think it's something else look at my fence closely. About two feet down and on top I cut the fence to have two points sticking up and down side ways., both ways on top. If something climbs over there will be a price to pay.