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GAMarans said:
Does he have to be?
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How big is your freezer
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katiedarling said:
I should have relocated it. But I didn't. I know they keep the mice out of my house. Relocate how far?

Edited to add: my knee jerk reaction was to grab the machete under my bed.
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My understanding is the homing instinct is really good at that size, but they keep the bad snakes away too, but then I rely on my guineas to do that and I have the same reaction when my chicks/chickens are at stake, but if I see one on the road or anywhere else I let it be and even have been known to stop the car and grab it by the tail and get it out of the road, yep DH does worry about me sometimes
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Silver Hill said:
Turned the chicks out of the room at the barn for some afternoon sun,bugs and grass for the first time today. These are BO, SS, BR, Araucana and Ameraucanas. There's 60 chicks out in this group.


This is supposed to be an ameraucana but looks nothing like any of the others. It's naked except where it has feathers, no tail, the largest feet and longer legs than chicks twice it's age, a long neck and a different color. It's so different it looks strange with the rest of the chicks.
Anyone raised one like this?





The one on the left is the same age

The Barred Rock and araucana are 3 weeks older
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Aren't the BO's growing so nicely and it looks like it's going to be an interesting hen, strange, If you need to rehome it I'll take it, I like strange, just ask my DH, lol I let my babies out since last week, if the weather is nice, love to see them chase bugs and when they catch one and they look worried like where can I go and sneak and eat it. course by then there is at least 5 other birds interested in it too...I should take a pic of my back yard with all the babies of all different colors running around, I love that sight.
 
katsdar said:
How big is your freezer    :gig
My understanding is the homing instinct is really good at that size, but they keep the bad snakes away too, but then I rely on my guineas to do that and I have the same reaction when my chicks/chickens are at stake, but if I see one on the road or anywhere else I let it be and even have been known to stop the car and grab it by the tail and get it out of the road, yep DH does worry about me sometimes  :idunno
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I should've known it was only going after the eggs that I had just taken from the nest boxes. He was heading straight past James on his way to them. I don't bother with rhem when they're in the yard. That was my first snake in the coop sirution.
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Perhaps I overreacted. Never caught a snake before, I wouldn't have known what to do with it. Lol
 
katsdar said:
Question: I need interior design for the 10x20 (not a 17x20, least I got the 20 part right
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) ideas, would you put something on the wood flooring? It's treated plywood, or just heavy shavings?
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I was going to suggest this, OR go over to the coop building threads and read up. There are a lot of people who coat their wood floors with roof coating, all the way around and up the walls about 6".

My issue with that is, if they're scratching around and pecking the floor, if they get some of that would it hurt them?
 
carcar80 said:
OMG! He's super cute, but we like to keep our eggs, and when surprised like that I would likely mess my pants too!
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Perhaps our wording isn't jiving. Both of my *coops* have wood floors.. My runs are dirt/sand.
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Yeah, it was a real pretty looking snake. I noticed a molted skin the evening before, right by the steps outside the sun room. That's my route to/from their yard. It looked as if it had been going into the flower bed when it left it there. Same size as the snake last night, I assume it was that snake, but there are obviously a bunch out here. I find them in the pool skimmers all the time. It was only just over 3 ft or so. Definitely surprised me!
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I'm sure all my neighbors heard the string of F-bombs flying from my lips if they were outside. Question though: It is my understanding that venomous snakes have more of a pointy shaped head and that non-venomous have a more rounded sort of shape. Is that correct or just an old wive's tale. Once I got a good look at it's face, I chilled a bit. Didn't look like a threat.

Next time I will relocate, if anyone can advise how to actually catch them and where to let them go at. LOL He was a slippery thing. Too crafty for me.
 
katsdar said:
Aren't the BO's growing so nicely and it looks like it's going to be an interesting hen, strange, If you need to rehome it I'll take it, I like strange, just ask my DH, lol I let my babies out since last week, if the weather is nice, love to see them chase bugs and when they catch one and they look worried like where can I go and sneak and eat it. course by then there is at least 5 other birds interested in it too...I should take a pic of my back yard with all the babies of all different colors running around, I love that sight.
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There is no way this is a female. Male. If it has no rump, it would be an Araucana. Check to see if it has a tail bone.
 
Silver Hill said:
Turned the chicks out of the room at the barn for some afternoon sun,bugs and grass for the first time today. These are BO, SS, BR, Araucana and Ameraucanas. There's 60 chicks out in this group.


This is supposed to be an ameraucana but looks nothing like any of the others. It's naked except where it has feathers, no tail, the largest feet and longer legs than chicks twice it's age, a long neck and a different color. It's so different it looks strange with the rest of the chicks.
Anyone raised one like this?





The one on the left is the same age

The Barred Rock and araucana are 3 weeks older
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Holy giant chickens, Batman!!!

Look at the size of those shanks! That's a big bird. Very pretty, though. Reminds me of how one of my EEs looked when I brought her home, but she was likely(?) a week or 2 older than the others. She's now the largest of my hens. Almost as big as the smaller rooster.
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maybe bigger.

Not to sound like a negative Nancy, but watch her abdomen, JIC. My big EE's abdomen started growing real fast,too. Like water belly. Vet checked her out and she had a tumor on her oviduct that was causing her to grow at warp speed. It was the strangest thing, even though she was the coolest looking chicken I'd ever seen. I told her that when she grew up, maybe she could play for the Knicks!
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Flowerbh said:
You should rehome it. This is what happens if you don't. (See the eggs it ate?) We took our snake out away from the home about 2 miles away and let it go.
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Aha! I remember that. You were the first person I thought of when I saw it. I replied a moment ago about how to catch & where to release before I saw this. So I will make note. That looks very similar to the one in the coop. Skin was a bit darker black, but it looked like a freshly molted snake. I'll need to work up the guts to actually handle them though. LOL
I prefer to only touch one that has just come out of a glass aquarium with it's professional handler nearby.
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baby steps.
 

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