protecting chicks

  1. sarastamand

    Ermine... Best way to catch? Or kill!!!

    I had an ermine wipe out my entire flock of 10! I have my new flock arriving (of 15....) on Valentine’s Day but we have YET to catch/kill this SOB! We have a hart trap set up, but we think he is too light as he set it off... but I saw him jumping between the rafters. We’ve secured the coop more...
  2. flwrldy

    Hallelujah chickens

    The other night I heard coyotes howling really close by, :eek:so I searched high and low looking for a radio to no avail, to hopefully keep the coys at bay. Finally I remembered we have two old cell phones, so I charged them up, set one on YouTube in the nesting box that's blocked off, and one...
  3. 21hens-incharge

    Neighbor released feeder rats!!!!

    OK so the title says a lot of it. We do not have wild rats here. They were raising feeder rats for a pet. They got rid of the pet and released the breeding pairs of RATS! I have seen one in my babies run! Tonight I went to close them up and it came out the pop door! They are young, just under 8...
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