Welcome to my pond - Swim, wade, or sit on the bank

[sourland]

Snowing here too, 'Al'. Another 6" so far and still coming down big time.

 

[Alaskan]

Snowing here too, 'Al'. Another 6" so far and still coming down big time.

Eeeeewwwwww.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Snowing again up here

Eeeeewwwwww.

I hope there is some electrical outlets on the pond as I will need to have my sunlamp on my lily pad.

The temperature is 70 degrees here in Florida.

I haven't lived in the areas that get so cold for Twenty-three years.

 

[Alaskan]

70 sounds good.

 

[sourland]

I hope there is some electrical outlets on the pond as I will need to have my sunlamp on my lily pad.

The temperature is 70 degrees here in Florida.

I haven't lived in the areas that get so cold for Twenty-three years.

Careful with the sun lamp. The Python may come out of hibernation and take up residence on your lily pad - he will be real hungry.

 

[bobbi-j]

Careful with the sun lamp. The Python may come out of hibernation and take up residence on your lily pad - he will be real hungry.

We don’t want that!

I have decided that mink (and their cousins) are the bane of my existence. When I went out to feed chickens this morning, I found one of my two BRs dead in the run, her neck eaten. (Of course it was the one that was laying). Saw little paw prints in the snow, about 1” across. I had been smelling what I thought was skunk around the coop for the past couple of days, but now I’m wondering if it was a mink - they have a musky odor as well. I used my chicken’s carcass for bait, set the live trap where the varmint went under the coop, and blocked off the corner where I think *it* got in. I also found a roll of wire, hooked one end to the trap and unrolled it several yards from the trap in case the problem is a skunk. I’m hoping I can carefully drag it a ways away from the coop before I shoot it.

 

[Alaskan]

We don’t want that!

I have decided that mink (and their cousins) are the bane of my existence. When I went out to feed chickens this morning, I found one of my two BRs dead in the run, her neck eaten. (Of course it was the one that was laying). Saw little paw prints in the snow, about 1” across. I had been smelling what I thought was skunk around the coop for the past couple of days, but now I’m wondering if it was a mink - they have a musky odor as well. I used my chicken’s carcass for bait, set the live trap where the varmint went under the coop, and blocked off the corner where I think *it* got in. I also found a roll of wire, hooked one end to the trap and unrolled it several yards from the trap in case the problem is a skunk. I’m hoping I can carefully drag it a ways away from the coop before I shoot it.

HATE the weasel family!

So blasted small, so difficult to keep out... and SO voracious!

Sorry for your hen. They never like to kill the extra cockerels.

One summer I was at the chickens with the kids, and I said "now that pullet right there, she sure is a good one" kid answered "you know, now that you said that, she will get eaten by something "

 

[bobbi-j]

HATE the weasel family!

So blasted small, so difficult to keep out... and SO voracious!

Sorry for your hen. They never like to kill the extra cockerels.

One summer I was at the chickens with the kids, and I said "now that pullet right there, she sure is a good one" kid answered "you know, now that you said that, she will get eaten by something "

That’s always the way it goes. If you name it or determine that it’s a good one, that’s the one that gets snagged Every. Single. Time.

 

[Alaskan]

That’s always the way it goes. If you name it or determine that it’s a good one, that’s the one that gets snagged Every. Single. Time.

Not sure if I should laugh or cry...

But yes, truth!!

 

[bobbi-j]

Not sure if I should laugh or cry...

But yes, truth!!

Permission to do both.