Wyoming Unite!!!!

[red horse ranch]

And the waiting begins! first time for my 2 year old peahen. She has 6 eggs.

 

[red horse ranch]

WOW, that's gorgeous! And I'm really impressed that you have something grassy green growing in your yard...nuthin' but dirt, rocks and ground squirrel holes here (with the occasional badger hole just for fun).

It's taken 16 years of mostly replanting over and over to finally get this green out of dry prairie land. And it helps when I started keeping the chickens out of the yard!

 

[N F C]

View attachment 1425250 And the waiting begins! first time for my 2 year old peahen. She has 6 eggs.

That's exciting, best of luck (to you & her both)!

It's taken 16 years of mostly replanting over and over to finally get this green out of dry prairie land. And it helps when I started keeping the chickens out of the yard!

Your hard work and efforts have paid off, love the green!

I can keep the chickens out of the yard easy enough...it's those darned ground squirrels I can't do much about! Ugh, those little rodents drive me nuts.

Just today I was looking out the window toward the coop and saw some strange looking behavior so I went out to see what was happening. This was in the coop and the 3 CCL were pecking at it while my 2 other birds were running around scared (not my photo):

Guess I saved the little rat's life, the chickens got distracted by me coming in and the it got away. I found where it came in and got that hole plugged up but probably won't be the end of that battle.

 

[red horse ranch]

That's exciting, best of luck (to you & her both)!



Your hard work and efforts have paid off, love the green!

I can keep the chickens out of the yard easy enough...it's those darned ground squirrels I can't do much about! Ugh, those little rodents drive me nuts.

Just today I was looking out the window toward the coop and saw some strange looking behavior so I went out to see what was happening. This was in the coop and the 3 CCL were pecking at it while my 2 other birds were running around scared (not my photo):
View attachment 1425286
Guess I saved the little rat's life, the chickens got distracted by me coming in and the it got away. I found where it came in and got that hole plugged up but probably won't be the end of that battle.

It looks like a prairie dog but since this isn't the actual picture of what you saw you might have seen a pack rat. Prairie dogs will dig tunnels in. Don't think they eat chickens, just grass but I could be wrong.

 

[N F C]

It looks like a prairie dog but since this isn't the actual picture of what you saw you might have seen a pack rat. Prairie dogs will dig tunnels in. Don't think they eat chickens, just grass but I could be wrong.

They're Richardson's ground squirrels. This is a pretty good article about them:
managing-wyoming-ground-squirrels-6-505

 

[Blooie]

I have dirt. <sigh> No flowers, no garden, no cool pictures. Just dirt.

 

[N F C]

I have dirt. <sigh> No flowers, no garden, no cool pictures. Just dirt.

Now I feel special...my yard has dirt and holes (and cactus and weeds)!

 

[R2elk]

It looks like a prairie dog but since this isn't the actual picture of what you saw you might have seen a pack rat. Prairie dogs will dig tunnels in. Don't think they eat chickens, just grass but I could be wrong.

They are not likely to eat chickens but will certainly help themselves to any chicken feed available.

 

[R2elk]

Now I feel special...my yard has dirt and holes (and cactus and weeds)!

My yard before I started planting trees and watering them consisted of sagebrush, prickly pear and yucca. Now I cannot keep up with mowing the grass and I have at least 4 gooseberry bushes that are loaded and many currants that are also loaded in addition to 3 Evans Bali cherry trees that are also loaded and that doesn't include the chokecherry trees that are all loaded with fruit. I even have a couple of plum trees that are completely covered in plums but most of the rest of them only have a few plums.

 

[N F C]

They are not likely to eat chickens but will certainly help themselves to any chicken feed available.

Exactly! Nasty little critters