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Oh, yeah, that looks pretty brawny! Hopefully it gives some raccoons a few things to think about before deciding to get dinner at your place again, though :tongue Turning it on only at night is a really good idea. It would be less other animals like cats and more my niece and nephew that I'd...

Yeah, that's my current top suspect and the main reason why I'm too afraid not to leave any eggs for it to get at in case it goes for a bird instead. :barnie I'm so daunted by the idea of electric fencing, though I have thought about it quite a bit. A large problem with it for me is that we're...

Good idea, I'll have to look around a bit and see what I can find! For now, I've just been peeking in the coop every now and then to see if I catch anything in the act. I just peeked in there before sitting down with lunch, here, and all of the Buck pen birds were inside. Delphine is still on...

I don't, unfortunately, and I'm not sure I have the means of getting one at the moment because I'm on a very limited budget. :hmm I may need to pinch some pennies and save up for one, though, as I thought of that as well. That would probably be my best bet of figuring out what it is and getting...

We have 7 peeps out and the last egg is externally pipped as of this morning! Looking like mostly Blues with only a couple Blacks in the mix. Most of them hatched yesterday evening to late last night. This is the first four to hatch. Lighting's terrible because I moved them to the brooder late...

Oh goodness, I do that to myself a lot! 🤭 Without the incubators running, it's quiet enough in my room to hear birds and squirrels chirping outside. I always have to sit there and listen like, holy-moly, how are there chicks peeping right now??

Oh my goodness! :th Bad mama!! I think I've heard that as well, that they have some kind of game in their background or something 🤔 Don't quote me on that! The Sebright hens I had were feisty little bitties for sure! Some even crowed regularly :th As far as what's up in my neck of the...

Haha, yeah, the chickens like to make sure I have plenty to do in a day, it seems 😅 Yay on the little ones that made it! Sorry to hear about the quitters, but it sounds like you got quite a few babies in total from that hatch anyway. :jumpy Wow, I wouldn't have expected her to attack other...

Y'all, I got 5 eggs from Buck's pen last night. :th There were three eggs out there this afternoon, too. There was definitely an egg thief coming through the floor!! Since Delphine's eggs were still clear when I candled yesterday, I set two of the Buck eggs from yesterday and the three eggs...

Oh, goodness! It looks like it's been sweeping chimneys or something 🤭 Oof, that sounds rough! Glad you got so many extras! Hopefully you get a good hatch from them :fl

Oh man, that little face!! 😍 I would have melted right then and there! Way too cute!!

:hugs Hope that that gets things solid and predator proof for you. Man, a lot of hungry critters showed up in your neighborhood lately! :rant Cuties!! :love Glad the little ones with leg issues are starting to get their legs under them better! I've noticed sometimes that mine will have minor...

I've had a wild past day, let me tell y'all. :rant First of all, yesterday we decided that, after weeks of no change in her condition and then a sudden worsening of how she looked for several days, that it was time to let go of Mavis. She'd been droopy and sort of penguin walking with no...

Yay, babies! :jumpy Any pictures of the little ones yet? Hope the hatch has gone smoothly! That silver baby was such a cutie, congrats on more of them! :love Very nice! Thanks for checking back in with that! 🙂

Ah, man. Sorry to hear about the drowning and the quitters. :hugs I think the day 1 and 2 eggs should be all right having only gotten to 88 for a few hours. I don't see you losing too many just from that, anyway. :fl Fingers crossed for lots of little Rosecombs and those Dusty babies in the...

Delphine's eggs don't appear to be developing. 🙁 I'm hoping it's because the other hens kept bugging her and booting her off her nest to lay eggs in there and not because Buck has decided not to breed the girls anymore or something. I've set her up with a cage around her nest now and will check...

Oof, hope everyone's safe down there after the storms! And that your power came back up fast for your eggs :fl

All moved outside! ...Yeah, they were long overdue at 6 weeks of age. :oops: Between all the rain we've been having and everything else I've got going on, it just took me a bit to get the opportunity to set them up. We're currently all moving as a unit as we get accustomed to our new...

Not chicken-related, but relevant to other posts I've made here. I've just submitted my acceptance of the offer of admission to go back to college. I got in!! 🥳

They're all starting to get active now, learning how to eat and drink from the older bitties. Oh my goodness, these little weensy tinies bobbling around among the week-olds is way too cute 🥰 Hard to believe that they were just as tiny only a week ago :th Also, yes, we have poo everywhere...