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Enfys posted:just wait they did start out in the house so it would be a natural return. i think every chicken i've ever owned started out living in the house and always wanted to come back inside lol when i was a kid our hens would come and sit at the back sliding glass door and look at us balefully. one little buff cochin hen would take advantage of open doors to come in and watch tv. my mom found her perched on the arm of the couch once just intently watching whatever cartoon i'd left on broody jail 1.0 -  she is in the office and she's not thrilled about it
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spookygonk posted:She's furious. bliss  is that a blueberry pot?
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City of Glompton posted:broody jail 1.0 -
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spookygonk posted:She's furious. they look so happy yes, Lil' Pep is not having a great day. she's at least been out on the linoleum to stretch a few times, got held for awhile, and ate some food/groomed herself but that doesn't mean she has to like it. my cat is also confused/suspicious, she is usually my only work buddy, why am i paying attention to a creature that is not her?
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spookygonk posted:Good day for retired outdoor hens today: 
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oh they are so adorable
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City of Glompton posted:oh they are so adorable  This vid seems thread-relevant (particularly if you misspell the species name). This little bird is a survivor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCRLyREqiyk
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Enfys posted:bliss Good eye, yes it is. We have two bushes and they provide us with enough fruit for a couple of dozen blueberry muffins, as the chickens pick the rest as soon as they go any where near ripe. spookygonk fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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a little over 24 hours in broody jail seems to have worked. Lil' Pep is now out in the garden scratching with everyone else. i'm not taking the jail down yet, just in case she doesn't want to come off the nest tomorrow. i'm glad to have her outside though, the broody poos are really something
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City of Glompton posted:a little over 24 hours in broody jail seems to have worked. Lil' Pep is now out in the garden scratching with everyone else. i'm not taking the jail down yet, just in case she doesn't want to come off the nest tomorrow. i'm glad to have her outside though, the broody poos are really something
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how an animal can drop a turd twice the size of her own head and then look at me like i'm the shameful one, i don't understand
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I'm cautiously optimistic that round 1 in the rat war has gone to Team Human. My dogs killed a 5th and then a 6th one this week (Good girls! I have a terrier and two dachshunds. They were so happy.) The last one was so bold they actually caught it INSIDE MY HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY  where it had been trying to eat their food. Anyway every time we killed one I filled in their nest holes, but they always reappeared nearly instantly. But after the sixth rat it's been two days and the hole is still filled in and the traps have gone untouched for two nights in a row. I guess rat traps and precautions with chicken feed are just going to be a feature of life from now on. I didn't anticipate that when we got chickens, but I should have.
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In other chicken news I ended up getting a solar powered light to hang in their coop to hopefully give them longer waking hours during the winter. Seems to work! Just ordered an outdoor heated dog water bowl for them in anticipation of cold weather ahead.
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You could try the rodent baits. The only issue with them is you never know where Mickey or Rickey will end up when they kick the bucket. We currently aren't using our guest bedroom, which is lucky because there's somebody in between the studs behind drywall. Somewhere. It'll mummify soon hopefully.
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Yeah I threw some poison under the house, down their holes, and back in the corners of our barn, but I have to be judicious to keep my nosy dogs from finding it too. I've made some homemade stations for the snap traps out of plastic buckets so they're weather/dog proof, too. The thought of a dead rat(s) stinking up the house did occur to me as well, considering how stinky even a tiny dead mouse can be if you can't get to it.
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Obviously you need a coop snake. Ours was back again last night.
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Joburg posted:Obviously you need a coop snake. Ours was back again last night. You might need to name it, if it's taken up residence.
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Joburg posted:Obviously you need a coop snake. Ours was back again last night.  long chook
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i was wrong about the ravens, they hadn't hatched another chick. their nest blew down in a big storm the other night and i found it sitting in my driveway - dog included for scale.   there were no chicks or eggs, but there was a fully grown dead raven that had been dead for a few days. so what i thought was a baby celebration the other day was actually a funeral  the wind had blown everything around, but the corpse was right beside the nest, so it had either been in or close by when it died. i put some offerings in it and propped it in the vegetation in the orchard, a lot of smaller birds build their homes in abandoned ravens' nests so you never know. (please do not be alarmed, the small blue egg is from a blackbird)
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So relaxed. Found out tonight that Molly has mites running around her vent, so it's the squirty bottle of ivermectin to stop those little buggers in their tracks. Bella and Nova were lifted out of their nests (much complaining) and were dosed as well. Will spray Willow in the morning. She's having a huge moult at the moment and looking a bit ragged and under the weather. I know it's psychosomatic* am sitting here scratching myself. *addict insane
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spookygonk posted:So relaxed. Come play my game Inhale, inhale, you're the victim Come play my game Exhale, exhale, exhale
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spookygonk posted:So relaxed. I mean, at least now the mites will be dead and they won't get covid from the 
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Shifty Nipples posted:Come play my game
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Weird rear end poultry just standing in the rain And the little cheep cheeps are staying dry.  Chickens don't make any sense.
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baby update! everybody is doing good and now named. energetic birds mostly didn't want to get picked up for photos so some are blurry.  Pebbles the Silver Laced Wyandotte  Drama the buff Brahma  Barbados the easter egger  Thistle the blue-splash Maran  Bucket the Rhode Island Red  Parsnip, another easter egger  Monaco the Black Copper Maran  and Truffle the last easter egger
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ShootaBoy posted:I really hope Truffles keeps a lot of that gorgeous pattern once she molts same, she's my partner's favorite
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City of Glompton posted:they are beautiful Very best hens right there. Look forward to more photos of them growing up.
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mahershalalhashbaz posted:but i have no technical skills and every time i try to build something it ends in disaster Y'all have bug shelters down there? 
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Days are getting short, but I’m still getting so many eggs from these little peckers
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I installed a non-lovely webcam in our DuckHouse. We're also adding some dividers that the ducks seem to like. The brooder can also be a heater, but I'd rather not run it unless it gets ridiculous cold.
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freeedr posted:Days are getting short, but I’m still getting so many eggs from these little peckers lucky. our only pullet to start laying this year has stopped after going broody. i expect lots of tiny eggs come spring! Yooper posted:I installed a non-lovely webcam in our DuckHouse. that's awesome!
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