keljonma
Epicurean Goddess
That would be hard for me too..... that is why everyone of ours were different!Quail_Antwerp said:
I got my McMurray Hatchery catalogue in the mail today! We have gotten 10 inches of snow this week..... blah!
Quail_Antwerp: Words from the Barnyard...
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I got my McMurray Hatchery catalogue in the mail today! We have gotten 10 inches of snow this week..... blah!
TanksHill
Super Self-Sufficient
Wow, how cute are they? that bantam chick is sure tiny. Thanks for posting the picture.
gina
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tamlynn
Lovin' The Homestead
Very cute! My kids want to see more pics.
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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
We are now up to 13 chicks, with number 14 pipped, and the duck eggs are still looking good - did final candling of duck eggs before stopping turning, and we've got some definite movement in the duck eggs! whoot!
We have had another 4 inches of White Revenge today. All of our paths to the barn and coops - covered. Argh!
Zoe, our redbone/bloodhound mix is barely able to walk through this snow. She is leaping to go out to potty and back - it's kind of funny. My shih Tzu puppy sticks to the paths to go potty. That's kind of annoying because we don't want to step in it, so we're kicking snow over her packages and kicking the snow covered packages out of the way.
The chickens are frustrated. They are tired of being confined and they want out of their winter prisons. I'm ready to turn them out, too, because free-ranging takes a lot of pressure off the feed bag. :/
I'm reminding of the Diary of a Snow Shoveler, so I'm off to Games, Jokes, and fun to revive that joke...I'm thinking I'm not too far off from where that guy was with needing the little white happy pills...
We have had another 4 inches of White Revenge today. All of our paths to the barn and coops - covered. Argh!
Zoe, our redbone/bloodhound mix is barely able to walk through this snow. She is leaping to go out to potty and back - it's kind of funny. My shih Tzu puppy sticks to the paths to go potty. That's kind of annoying because we don't want to step in it, so we're kicking snow over her packages and kicking the snow covered packages out of the way.
The chickens are frustrated. They are tired of being confined and they want out of their winter prisons. I'm ready to turn them out, too, because free-ranging takes a lot of pressure off the feed bag. :/
I'm reminding of the Diary of a Snow Shoveler, so I'm off to Games, Jokes, and fun to revive that joke...I'm thinking I'm not too far off from where that guy was with needing the little white happy pills...
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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
We just had our first coyote attack. 
He got 3 of my rabbits before we were even aware he was out there. A doe, my new big buck, and a grey and white baby that was the daughter of the big buck.
Well, at least we think he got all 3. We know he got the buck, because we spooked him literally right after his kill of the buck, and he dropped him and ran. We could find NO signs of him being in the pen where the rabbits lived, and no rabbit tracks outside of the pen. We do not know how he got him.
My rabbit was still warm, but we picked him up and are now wide awake. No sleeping here, I'm sitting at the computer with a window view of the back yard, watching and waiting to see if he comes back.
Gun is loaded.
He got 3 of my rabbits before we were even aware he was out there. A doe, my new big buck, and a grey and white baby that was the daughter of the big buck. Well, at least we think he got all 3. We know he got the buck, because we spooked him literally right after his kill of the buck, and he dropped him and ran. We could find NO signs of him being in the pen where the rabbits lived, and no rabbit tracks outside of the pen. We do not know how he got him.
My rabbit was still warm, but we picked him up and are now wide awake. No sleeping here, I'm sitting at the computer with a window view of the back yard, watching and waiting to see if he comes back.
Gun is loaded.
The Vail Benton's
Lovin' The Homestead
Oh QA, 
I'm so sorry!
I'm so sorry!big brown horse
Hoof In Mouth
Aww, that is too bad, I am so sorry!
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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
It's the morning after.
The morning after what you ask? The morning after the First Coyote Attack of 2010.
We'd been blessed this year, favored, apparantly, because we'd suffered no losses to four legged doggie wannabes until 9:45 pm last night.
Thank goodness for friends who call after you're in bed, otherwise, we'd never have known he was out there.
My husband had got up to check the woodburner while I was gabbing, and suddenly screams - Coyote! Coyote going for your chicken barns!
Yep, I hung up on my friend. Priorities, ya know?
I dressed faster than ever...and dummy us, we run out the door armed with......
a flashlight, shovel, and broom.
Thankfully, the sound of two legged crazies screaming and hollering, waving their light, and the little female one swinging a broom in one hand, shovel in the other, were enough to scare the vermin off. What's bad is, he walked UP our driveway, and he travelled along the paths that we created so we could get to the barns and feed everyone.
We'd been violated. I do believe it's an unwritten farm law that predators are NOT allowed to use human convenience to stalk, hunt, and kill their prey. Predators are supposed to have to work for that meal. That wannabe dog didn't even earn that rabbit - shoot, he didn't even earn a gold star for effort!
Surveyed the damages. One rabbit known DOA, 2 MIA.
Slept restlessly all night - scared the wannabe dog would come back and finish of what he started...more worried that he'd bring friends and they'd be having an impromptu BBQ uninvited.
Woke up to the sound everyone loves hearing in the morning - a rooster crow you say? Nope.
Your 80 pound Redbone Coonhound/Bloodhound vomiting on the carpet.
Are you kidding me?! It's six am!
Get up, get dressed, visit the facilities, clean up dog vomit. Great way to start the day.
Put on coffee. That's the best part of waking up - hmm that almost sounds like a commercial............
Putting off going outside to survey damages - incase we missed anything last night...and well, it's not fully daylight, yet, but I'm not willing to face a coyote alone. Waiting for the rest of the posse to wake up.
Checked on the 'bator....chick 13 is still in there, from hatching yesterday around 5 pm...yesterday's pip is still a pip, but apparantly trying to zip, because it's now made a second pip...wait, what's that....THREE more pips?! WOW! Three more pips, and one of those three, trying to zip!
but wait, what's that? -OMG!!! a duck egg has pipped!
With coyotes and hatchings, I might have a heart attack from all this egg-citement!
Oh wait, don't get to excited - we got 4 more inches of White Death Last night. Are you kidding me?!
I think it's time to pull out my blow dryer - see what damages to the snow I can inflict with it...
We can't even open the door to the front porch, as the snow is piled almost to the window - I'm taking a pic today, before I tackled shovelling it off there.
ok, i think i smell coffee...
The morning after what you ask? The morning after the First Coyote Attack of 2010.
We'd been blessed this year, favored, apparantly, because we'd suffered no losses to four legged doggie wannabes until 9:45 pm last night.
Thank goodness for friends who call after you're in bed, otherwise, we'd never have known he was out there.
My husband had got up to check the woodburner while I was gabbing, and suddenly screams - Coyote! Coyote going for your chicken barns!
Yep, I hung up on my friend. Priorities, ya know?
I dressed faster than ever...and dummy us, we run out the door armed with......
a flashlight, shovel, and broom.
Thankfully, the sound of two legged crazies screaming and hollering, waving their light, and the little female one swinging a broom in one hand, shovel in the other, were enough to scare the vermin off. What's bad is, he walked UP our driveway, and he travelled along the paths that we created so we could get to the barns and feed everyone.
We'd been violated. I do believe it's an unwritten farm law that predators are NOT allowed to use human convenience to stalk, hunt, and kill their prey. Predators are supposed to have to work for that meal. That wannabe dog didn't even earn that rabbit - shoot, he didn't even earn a gold star for effort!
Surveyed the damages. One rabbit known DOA, 2 MIA.
Slept restlessly all night - scared the wannabe dog would come back and finish of what he started...more worried that he'd bring friends and they'd be having an impromptu BBQ uninvited.
Woke up to the sound everyone loves hearing in the morning - a rooster crow you say? Nope.
Your 80 pound Redbone Coonhound/Bloodhound vomiting on the carpet.
Are you kidding me?! It's six am!
Get up, get dressed, visit the facilities, clean up dog vomit. Great way to start the day.
Put on coffee. That's the best part of waking up - hmm that almost sounds like a commercial............
Putting off going outside to survey damages - incase we missed anything last night...and well, it's not fully daylight, yet, but I'm not willing to face a coyote alone. Waiting for the rest of the posse to wake up.
Checked on the 'bator....chick 13 is still in there, from hatching yesterday around 5 pm...yesterday's pip is still a pip, but apparantly trying to zip, because it's now made a second pip...wait, what's that....THREE more pips?! WOW! Three more pips, and one of those three, trying to zip!
but wait, what's that? -OMG!!! a duck egg has pipped!
With coyotes and hatchings, I might have a heart attack from all this egg-citement!
Oh wait, don't get to excited - we got 4 more inches of White Death Last night. Are you kidding me?!
I think it's time to pull out my blow dryer - see what damages to the snow I can inflict with it...
We can't even open the door to the front porch, as the snow is piled almost to the window - I'm taking a pic today, before I tackled shovelling it off there.
ok, i think i smell coffee...
Farmfresh
City Biddy
When our fox was killing my turkeys last year I WAS MAD!!!
After we captured the poor thing and I saw how desperately thin and sick with mange she was I felt bad for literally snatching the food from her mouth. I still took her away and would kill her if she ever returned, but still I felt bad for her.
Your coyote is probably in the same or similar boat. Either older or ill. All of this snow makes them desperate for food. Taking the easiest path away kind of makes me think that is probably the case. This snow will probably be "white death" to lots of wild predators this year. Better to get him with your gun than wait for the starvation to finish him off.
After we captured the poor thing and I saw how desperately thin and sick with mange she was I felt bad for literally snatching the food from her mouth. I still took her away and would kill her if she ever returned, but still I felt bad for her.
Your coyote is probably in the same or similar boat. Either older or ill. All of this snow makes them desperate for food. Taking the easiest path away kind of makes me think that is probably the case. This snow will probably be "white death" to lots of wild predators this year. Better to get him with your gun than wait for the starvation to finish him off.
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Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
Oh he didn't take the paths to leave, he used our paths to get in.
When he left, he leaped and bounded right through the deepest parts of the snow, and down the logging road.
He must have been out there for awhile, too, before we even noticed him. He had circled everyone - the call ducks, which are right outside by the light pole close to my house! the cows, the bantam coop, the goose/duck pen, the main coop, the rabbit hutches, the pig pen, and lastly, the Marans pen where the three rabbits were.
I'm about to gear up and go out. See if there's any signs that he came back, or any rabbits that were in hiding.
When he left, he leaped and bounded right through the deepest parts of the snow, and down the logging road.
He must have been out there for awhile, too, before we even noticed him. He had circled everyone - the call ducks, which are right outside by the light pole close to my house! the cows, the bantam coop, the goose/duck pen, the main coop, the rabbit hutches, the pig pen, and lastly, the Marans pen where the three rabbits were.
I'm about to gear up and go out. See if there's any signs that he came back, or any rabbits that were in hiding.
