Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Ikslo]

I thought, wow, look at Buff’s comb!! Then I realized it was the shrub rake we use to herd them along.

Same! I had to zoom in to get a closer look at that comb!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Same! I had to zoom in to get a closer look at that comb!

So happy it wasn’t just me!

- I suppose, when I think about it, a rake is a type of comb…

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

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As someone from the US: please cancel my subscription. All this and it's only been a week


Tax: here he comes

 

[Molpet]

I know there is a fox near us but I haven’t seen it or had issues with it. Bobcat, yes. Raccoons I get first. But the other night I lost a big fat Orpington who decided to sleep outside on a lawn mower. I followed the feather trail until it disappeared and it went the opposite way the bobcat has taken chickens. How did you know you had a fox? Did you see it? Did it attack during the day or night? I chalked the Orpington up to a raccoon because I saw a paw print in the dirt near the lawn mower but I always thought raccoons just killed and ate in the same spot. I set a raccoon trap just in case and haven’t caught anything so now I’m wondering if it was something else and a fox would make sense. We also have a coyote roaming around but whatever it was didn’t set off the camera so I figure it had to be small and quick.

First fox came around 8 am, pretty red. Next was after 10 am a pale red, the third was in the afternoon, a grayish.

Racoons here are messy eaters. Bits and blobs and feet around. But here they usually run in packs.