Hi there,
My name is Nic and I am an aspiring entomologist in the Raleigh/Durham area of NC. I have joined this community in hopes of finding someone whose flock may have some form of arthropod parasite to include mites, ticks, poultry lice, flies, or beetles and would be willing to send some...
So.... We saw our first wolf rat in the fall. Shot it. Thought yay, we nipped this in the bud. Until we saw two more about a month ago. Trapped two with those big rat traps. Thought yay again. Tonight I go to our basement to do my night time check on our new babies (7ducklings and 10chicks) ...
About an hour ago, I could hear like a scream from one of my bantams, it sounded like my hen, but the more I thought about it, it actually sounded like the bantam roo
I go outside to investigate, but the chickens are 100% undisturbed, no reaction, all were on their roost
I later check the...
Photo by Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) - Starling, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27814540
Starlings are a very common bird, especially in the american northeast. Although not harmful to chickens, they tend to carry parasites and can really make a mess in a coop...
I was trying to leave the last friday and spotted a coyote who had tunneled under our massive yard under a 6 foot chain link fence and killed my 15 week old silkie roo, my son, and I made a stupid choice and grabbed a rock and ran it down, slugged it in the side with the rock before it could get...