Writing article! Need your help/knowledge/experience

[TheOddOneOut]

Oh you are so lucky! Though I tagged you because of the pasty butt chicks

Oh, yes. I can help you with any questions about that. And bumblefoot. Maybe PM me?

 

[PippinTheChicken]

That reminded me. never buy a cheap incubator!!!

 

[Silkie Princess]

That reminded me. never buy a cheap incubator!!!

Tell me about it

 

[Silkie Princess]

Oh, yes. I can help you with any questions about that. And bumblefoot. Maybe PM me?

Great!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Great!

 

[3KillerBs]

Sometimes stuff just happens.

I lost poor Kung Pao in the aftermath of my own visit to the ER after a head wound.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...e-unknown-photos-added.1484435/#post-24743051

He got trapped between the electric fence and the chick-tight inner fence overnight and *may* have either died of the stress OR broken his neck panicking (he was always prone to panic over every little thing -- not that his situation was a little thing). I can't blame the 15yo who put the chickens away for me that night because I probably would not have seen a black cockerel next to the fence in the shadows on a moonless night either.

 

[Silkie Princess]

Anyone else wanting to share their experience?

 

[Mrs. K]

Predators have been my biggest disasters with chickens, coons in particular. And once predators find you, they come back. Predators are different in different areas.. But I have been nearly wiped out, more than once by coons getting in, and having a hey day.

Building a coon tight coop/run is harder than you think, and eventually I went with chainlink fence, and over the top too. In fact if I locked a person in my run, he/she would have a very difficult time getting out, and that is how you need to make it for coons.

Mrs K

 

[My Very First 6 Chickens]

my 6 GLW's will be one year in April and we have enjoyed supervised free range until this past November when the hawks started coming around. They circle around a little to close for comfort. I will no longer let them free range unsupervised. Simple as that. i have learned the following: Hawks will learn your rountines when taking chickens out to free range. change up routines. Hawks prefer hunting at Dust and Dawn. Hawks can carry up to their own body weight. Hawks cannot see well at night and prefer rodents and smaller prey. Hawks do not like owls. i will build a little free range area that will be protected from above so I can run inside or leave them unattended. last week 2 hawks did a mating routine right about my coop. It was terrifying to see 2 hawks collide in the air, lock talons and spiral down down down before smacking the ground right behind coop and then Poof, they were gone! This was 10 feet from me and startled me into reality that i can not ever leave my birds unattended. simple as that. now the chickens all follow me around the yard and I am teaching them my danger danger voice which they are learning. I tend to herd them from behind, but this is proving not as successful as me running to the coop run and them following me. usually all but 1 will follow, with one dumb dumb sitting in the tree line like whats going on? i'll be glad when all the trees grow their leaves and offer some arial cover too.