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Just goes to show anyone can make mistakes. Good cautionary tale to share. I only have 2 of each : rifle, shotgun and pistol. I don't hunt much anymore and use a 22 LR pistol to dispatch trapped predators. Since I got covid brain I have been extremely cautious about using and cleaning my pistol.

Okay we all want to hear about the gunshot wound :pop

I see the beginning of a beautiful coop 😜

I haven't eaten squirrels since I was young, but I thought they were good. Meps used to come around and buy squirrel tails, cockerels hackles and something else I can't remember.... for fishing lures. 50 cents a tail for fox squirrel. My mother had said Campbell's soup used to buy spent hens.

https://realtree.com/timber-2-table-articles/19-good-ways-to-cook-a-squirrel

I have used staples to put up winter plastic. I also have found staples in the gizzard when cleaning cockerels. Hardware disease is problems from the chickens eating metal.

Does it have to hold weight or just keep it from shifting? They make clips for the siding https://www.kinsmangarden.com/product/Vinyl-Siding-Hooks

Like a game bird pen https://www.pheasant.com/about-us/blog/flight-pens/tag#:~:text=Posts%20should%20be%2010'%20high,from%20digging%20their%20way%20in. Also a friend had bird netting over his turkey pens. A bobcat went through it like butter. Killed all in one pen. Left the carcasses and came...

Is good to keep chickens in, but any predators can get in But it looks great and a lot of work.

I put straw around the potato plants. After Halloween I post on my local FB page for pumpkin and bales. Sometimes people want to drop off others want me to pickup.

By me the squirrels. But also mice. Depends on size

Yes I was wondering about that too. I'm thinking packed in clay. Or bog like conditions

https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-discover-rare-well-preserved-bronze-age-wooden-structure-1898522

I hate when they say no rain or frost at 9pm and by morning they are wrong. Can't predict the future 12 hours in advance, even with all the fancy radar, computers and half a dz different models.

I forgot I have been using these small nipple waterers. I haven't had chicks in the house since 2020...

This is what I use when I don't have a broody

I have mine on an upside down bowl or a brick. Something to raise it up above the bedding a couple inches

Example of cost of pallets in my area 😞

So now I am wondering how they made these wells for real use. I know a lot were stone but there were wood ones also....which seem to be square.

Very nice detailed blog post