How do you re-enforce against snakes? They can even get through chicken wire. My chickies were all accounted for this morning and getting back to normal after the coyote attack. Poor little wyandootte has a bare butt but seems to be walking and running around better. Today, I have to start picking Japanese apple pears. We have one tree that is 25+ feet high and the best pears are always at the top. I cut it back once but it grew around the cut and now there are twice as many up there Sometimes I just leave them for the crows although it is against my nature.
Hardware cloth, instead of chicken wire. But now we will have to settle for chicken wire. Except for bottom. Anyway, its time to get them out of the living room. Soon as hubby feels like it.
We bought 24 rolls of paper towels but that also means changing them out which is no fun when you bend down with stuffy head and dizzy. They are going out today. I'll put up picture later.
It's the country living. I worked all day yesterday, on the brooder pen, I had to totally rebuild it, and it's finally ready for them, so they're fixing to be in it soon, like today.
We got them moved to outside now, they are not happy, but they will be later on, I hope. I had to keep talking to them to calm them down ,they have a box of dirt to play in now too.
I wasn't trying to make fun of you. I have had babies in my shower lined with paper and cleaned it every day. But the smell was still of chickies.
Today at 6 pm I feed the peeps and changed their water. I had caught a green grasshopper so thought I would see what they would do with it. Looked like a football game the way they chased whoever had it, kept taking it away from each other running and the others chased after them. He was a big grasshopper until they got through with him. They are getting bigger fast now. I will snap a photo tomorrow and put it up.
We told Foxy and Leo the chics are their birds so they are acting better. Little peeps are getting feathers now and running around enjoying being in the pen and out of the brooder. They still habve the light to keep warm. Plus we used sturdy black netting. And the dogs won't let anything i nthe yard, not even the squirrels and birds. And Foxy already caught a diamond back and 3 Garter snakes a few months ago. So we haven't seen any snakes in about 3 months. She lets us know and hubby takes them to the woods. They can get big though. Garter snakes ,nonpoisonous don't hurt anything.
I picked up a young rooster in case we will need to raise our own poultry next year. He is a handsome easter egger I named Bubba. But daughter wants to call him Jack Sparrow after the pirate. He runs frantically like Johnnie Depp in the movies. I have two grown babies that came together--gold and silver laced wyandottes. They hunt together like velocirapters. So funny, heads down, charging across the grass together after bugs. Sadly everyone picks on Bubba. I keep telling them sometime they might want something from him and he won't go near them. One of my hens has tried to sidle up to him after being one of the meanest and Bubba just runs away. No one listens to me.