Homesteading Chicken Coop Build, Chickens, Pond, Garden & Projects

My sister has barn cats and she’s seen skunks feeding along side the cats at the cat bowl.

 

Seems to be a nightly visitor.......Working on securing the run so he can't even get into that area.

On the positive side once I replaced the door batteries and it's been closing at night I got two eggs already. I guess that predator thing stressing them out really is true........

 

I am working on adding hardware cloth to keep him out of the run area. Coop is pretty darn solid, and that auto door locks/latches at the bottom but wouldn't put it past him to break or rip it open. Last year out in the trash going work I found a nicely bundled up with duct tape 4 nice decent sized rolls of hardware cloth. Slammed the brakes on and in the back of truck it went. That stuff can be $$, I'll prob need more to do it right but I saved myself some $$ for sure.

 

There's two critters you never trust, a bull and a rooster (they have something in common :-0). Trying to tame or make it friendly makes them even more dangerous as you start to trust them. From the pics that rooster didn't peck the kid it spurred it. I'm with the mom, that sucker had to go so why waste the meat... As a kid I had a pet rooster, leghorn I'm told. One day it met my dad on his way to give the horses a coffee can of sweet feed. The neighbors said he was so tough even after going through a pressure cooker that they couldn't chew him.

 

We had a rooster, he spurred my 3 yo daughter from behind. He was tasty.

 

We used to have a mean rooster. He attacked small children. He attacked me every time I went to the coop. I was gonna do him in, but my 80 year old mother insisted on taking him to my uncle's farm. Well she took another 80 year old woman out to see his new surroundings. He had both woman on the ground and they both came back bleeding. That rooster somehow came up missing that my night. They gotta go when they get that dangerous.

 

We turn off any aggressive livestock on our farm..... edible animals are not worth the risk of serious injury to people.

I was attacked many times by bad roosters when I was a kid..... one of my fondest memories growing up was the time dad avenged me on one of those meanies!

 

The first time a roo does the sideways dance that says he's ready to fight it gets the ax. No tolerance at all.

I was sad about the rooster that disappeared when I was a kid. Nobody thought to tell me the truth until I was in my late teens... Didn't upset me in the least.

The hens missing feathers on their backs are the favorites. I've never used saddles but probably should have on a few. Good luck with the winds, hope things stay put.

 

that would have been a great video!