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[Cloverleaf Farm]

Hey all! FYI...selling off my bantam Ameraucana....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/678822/bantam-ameraucana-flock

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: I noticed the same thing yesterday. Fritz went to Monroe F & F on Saturday, and on Sunday, Franz was clearly the new rooster.

 

[hallerlake]

WHO WAS LOOKING FOR A CHICK?

Dolly has hatched another chick and is ignoring it to sit on her eggs. Please PM me.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

WHO WAS LOOKING FOR A CHICK?

Dolly has hatched another chick and is ignoring it to sit on her eggs. Please PM me.

If you don't find anyone else - I could pick her up on my way home from work. I have three broodies - one has a one day old chick, one has 2 two day olds chicks, and one has three week plus old chicks.

We're not looking for more chicks - but always willing to help =)

 

[hallerlake]

Quote: You were the first person I thought of. Thank you. I tried calling your cell.

 

[Ogress]

Today's bee extraction went pretty well. While we found no brood I did get a few thousand bees and about 40 #'s of comb loaded with nice honey. The bees have been added to hives at home and the honey will become bee food and a little "beekeeper reward". I got stung first thing. I took a total of 14 to the area around my right elbow! The black patches you see on us is all bees.
Here is the platform we worked from.


The only possibly viable queen cell we found. see it? Looks like a little peanut.


Just a few unhappy bees around me.


Here I am preparing to hand down a nice slab of beekeepers reward. Yes that is a solid slab of honey. some will be eaten by us and the rest will be fed to the bees.


The resident treated us to fresh still warm cinnamon rolls.


And here is the chicken related part. While we were taking a break Norm decided to become chicken whisperer to this lonely hen. he was sharing his cinnamon roll and all was good until Norm got distracted and Henny Penny decided he wasn't feeding fast enough. She jumped up and grabbed the whole roll and ran.

Nice photos; but seeing all those bees swarming around you while you are up on a ladder makes me nervous because my first reaction is to jump when I get stung. I was once stung on the thigh while waiting at a red light in my car. I lurched into the intersectionand nearly got hit.

 

[Teva]

Woohoo I got the last blue! She did NOT want to be stuck in that coop, everytime I open it (it opens from the top) she tries to escape, and managed to 3 times so far. (yes, I need to stop opening that coop!) Fortunately, I had the hindsight to close the pen (which I don't do very often), so I was able to corner her.

My two black star mama's helped me as well. I have never seen them be mean to other birds before, but HennyPenny pinned this blue down in the corner like nothing flat! (the reason why I have the two black stars is because the previous owners didn't know how to integrate two other full growns in with them, and they got terribly picked on by the new birds).

So I was told two of the blue EEs were broody when I picked them up, but I don't know which two. I think moving them to my place may have jolted them out of it. I don't know which 2 of the five gave me eggs this morning, but I have two green eggs for the first time ever! yeehaw!

 

[Chickielady]

Nice photos; but seeing all those bees swarming around you while you are up on a ladder makes me nervous because my first reaction is to jump when I get stung. I was once stung on the thigh while waiting at a red light in my car. I lurched into the intersectionand nearly got hit.

Awesome pics CR !!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

Ferrets !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We left yesterday about 9 AM & stopped at a few stores in Aberdeen & then on to Elma to have a nice Dad's day with the family.
We had a great time & left about 3 PM & were alarmed when we pulled in the driveway there was a pullet running loose.
How strange, how in the world did she get out as she was in a totally enclosed pen right next to our cabin !
Got out & caught her and found a grisly scene !
Dead chooks everywhere, feathers all over !!!!!!!!!

One pullet was drug head first into a 1 foot deep hole that was freshly dug under the cabin...we just buried 12" of hardware wire there !
The pullet's body was too big to fit down the hole, so the killer just took her head.
There was another drug under a pallet, legs sticking out, and another drug to the pen fence, head through to the outside, head missing but the body once again too big to allow the killer to drag off the entire body.
Like this is exactly 3 feet from our cabin's front door !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The hole dug down 12" under the buried wire was the size of a baseball........I went further & discover yet another pullet, this one a Blue Jersey Giant

dead & drug into a deep dark corner, inside the next coop.
Did not find any more after that.
DH set up the web cam & recorded a DVD last night and as we watched, we could see something big & long under the cabin barn !!!!!!!! INSIDE Under !
It went under the 12" of buried wire & is IN THERE!!!
I got 3 almost adult cockerels from the bachelor pad & put them in this pen.
DH has the Hav-A-Hart trap set up with ground beef...but none were caught over the night.
We replayed the DVD this morning & sure enough there is one, and DH thinks a pair, of ferrets, much too big to be a weasel with bodies nose to atil about 2-3 feet long !!!

Right on the front porch !
These things are viscious and UNDER the cabin RIGHT NOW & can pop out and kill a mess of birds at any given moment, even in broad daylight while we were gone yesterday !
I am afraid to even sit here that they may be out trying to kill right now!
I for sure cannot go anywhere & have the .410 loaded & sitting next to me.......................everytime a cock jumps a hen & she squeals, I run out thinking the killer is back.
It is so awful...hard to describe how I feel, especially when we work so hard at security, to have these critters UNDER our cabin ?!?!
You'd think they would attack a coop far away, but this pen only had pullets in it.
I feel like I have been assualted, and the perp is still in the house.
I cannot hardly eat & have been physically sick.......................I will try to get updates when I can.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Hey everyone....

I'm selling more of my flock...between really high gas & feed prices, I haven't made enough in egg sales to pay for my horse's hay this summer--so I'm selling 5 adult geese and still trying to sell my GLC's, Houdan Bantams, a pair of Bantam Orloffs....

PM me for prices...I'll also be posting them on my website & Craigslist.

Thanks!

~Heather