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That's my fear with poison. We have traps and just go the gummy bear and peanut butter route. Or the husband and the BB gun....ha ha ha....

They are very common here. For years we never saw any or had any problems. It has just been in the last 3-4 years that they have become an issue in my neighborhood. Too many neighbors have too much crap just laying around. We really try to avoid the poison route because I would hate for the...

I am fairly certain my head spun around at that point in addition to my swearing.

We had pet rats which were great! Outside rats not so much!!! We haven't had an issue now that we pick the food up and killed the one.

I have friends that live on Miles Rd.

Not anymore. She doesn't even have any eggs in her box. She seems to be a little better about getting out rather than us grabbing her and tossing her out of the box. Still stays in there a lot though.

Where the mountains meet the sea!! It is beautiful here.

Right??? It was hysterical.

We do pick the food up at night now. It hadn't occurred to us to do so (we obviously were not thinking because we have caught them in the green house!)! It got it's little neck whacked because they like gummy bears and peanut butter even better. We left traps out for several days. We've only had...

So here is your funny for the night. We are new to having chickens as we just got ours at the end of August. Not to far into this venture I was out cleaning their boxes and coop out. I had noticed that their feeder was empty which at the time I thought was odd because it had never been empty...

I beg to differ on cats (or at least the ones here) being afraid of a group of chickens. We lost one of our newest (and not entirely small) leghorns to the neighbor cat. The cat traveled over the roof tops of the garages, sheds etc and got into our pen area. While I don't think it killed her in...

Thanks for the hugs. She was a HUGE part of my life. I am finding that I really do enjoy my chickens.

Thanks for your help everyone. I won't give up on my girls yet! Learning curve is going up. I do look at it though that I haven't killed one yet and that they appear to be healthy.

Learning curve is going up!!! So I quite possibly could just have a group of young girls that haven't figured out why I have them other than for entertainment! Thanks for your help!