Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

Going for second cup of coffee. A storm came through last night, I woke up enough to know it, went right back to sleep. Going to town this morning to get truck inspected, tags and title put in my name. Check mail, pick up a few things in town and go to Tractor Supply for dog food.

 

[Cecilia's-herd]

Good morning everyone. This week has been a somber one. We had to put down our hen Daytona on Tuesday. I am just honestly broken. You love something and you try so hard to fix them and it sucks to fail something so important. Tony will be missed. She's with Clover and God now. Maybe I begged a bit, but I know she's in a better place.

Daytona
3/8/21-11/9/21
Isaiah 40:31

 

[Blue Sky]

Dang. Another dead chicken. Severe damage throat and head. I have a small group of elderlies who roost in a stall with sheep and 3 LGDs. I don’t think any predator is braving the barn but maybe ambushing an early foraging bird in the non dog area?

 

[Alaskan]

Dang. Another dead chicken. Severe damage throat and head. I have a small group of elderlies who roost in a stall with sheep and 3 LGDs. I don’t think any predator is braving the barn but maybe ambushing an early foraging bird in the non dog area?

Any way to put a game came out there?

Hate not knowing what is going on... need to figure out the why in order to fix it.

 

[Bruce]

We had to put down our hen Daytona on Tuesday.

Always hard to lose one, she was quite young which can make it harder.

Dang. Another dead chicken. Severe damage throat and head. I have a small group of elderlies who roost in a stall with sheep and 3 LGDs. I don’t think any predator is braving the barn but maybe ambushing an early foraging bird in the non dog area?

It is certainly possible if you have hens that leave the safe space.

I had a Golden Campine that would not stay where she was safe. I'd find footprints in the snow in the morning coming from the NE corner of the big barn, going south, around the little barn then back through the fence and all the birds would be in the barn when I opened it up. She had to have gone out the alpacas' always open door on the north end of the barn, hopped up on the fence and flown to the corner of the NE corner of the barn because there were never any prints in the snow on the north side of the barn (big rock pile there, she must have flown over it).

A month or so after I last saw her, presumably she became fox food, I found a large pile of eggs in a nest on a straw bale in the upper (east) side of the barn where I keep the tractor.

I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[messybun]

This week (or last week) I had a predator get in my yard and there were feathers everywhere. None of my birds were dead though as far as I can tell. I might be missing one, but I honestly can’t remember if I had two or three black and white brahmas. Looked like coyote tracks, they’re really bad this year. So, after fixing the electric fence and putting up a fair bit of barbed wire, filling in the hole they dug under my fence and covering it with cinderblocks, fortifying my chicken coop and shoving the ducks in there too it came back. All I saw were tracks where it got in, and tracks where the goat and geese had dug in the ground and scuffled. No blood, but it certainly hasn’t come back. Oh, And I grabbed my neighbor’s dog to mark my territory for me; for some strange reason I can’t get my friend to do that job, oh well the dog/bear came through for me anyway. Lol. Hope y’all are having a good day.

 

[Bruce]

So it got back in even after all you did??

 

[Mini Horses]

Nice you have a canine to borrow. But you can actually buy urines online yep.

Sorry for the chicken losses .... Everybody's.

 

[Baymule]

Good morning! Coffee is ready. Going to clean ceiling fans in house and on porch. Get Christmas presents off table, clean bathrooms, general house cleaning today. Laundry too.

 

[Mini Horses]

Need to clean mine, too! Not today.

Just having first cup....it's a wake up one. Little heavy on the measure. . But good!

Another front zipped thru, few hours earlier than predicted -- slamming rains! Woke me about 2:30.…back to sleep after a while, slept in. It's all good. Better than hanging with it right now and morning chores.

Have half a day at work then home. This time change just screws up my work day because I leave to get home before this now early dark! . Won't matter after next week......work slows to a trickle. Home time.

So, happy birthday @Cecilia's-herd ! Have cake and ice cream!!!