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

Hopefully it was an accident, the hen's competing over the "one special" place to lay and they'll figure it out.

 

A hen appeared in the top of living room window! TOO Funny! Dusk here, chickens went to roost, we close the coop after dark. We have two end tables stacked on eachother for deliveries on our enclosed porch (door was open tonight from a tank of water he brought home), that last hen lost her way or was distracted or whatever and everyone went to bed and she was lost. She came into the porch, got up on the stacked end tables and was staring through the window at us

 

Looks like we had a first predator (all chickens are fine). The wire was ripped from the frame in a corner. Glad the coop door is rubber bungied at night. Our two smallest hens were loose yesterday afternoon, I thought was an accident. Nope, same two loose again today though I took a head count before chutting the coop door last night. Must have been Thursday night when we were in town for school concert.

 

I looked at the game cameras today from this week... This morning must of been a active predator morning... Had a fox and two coons at about 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. roaming the back yard...

 

The Fox


The Coons (notice the one coon trying the door)

 

I did miss it til you mentioned. Chvymn99 is the dark spot the second coon is at the repair/reinforcement you did on the coop?

 

Bought a light for a pistol on lightning deal, he put it on a shotgun instead. I saw a coon on on nesting box tonight and he went and got it. Glad it's gone, guessing it's the one that tore the hardware cloth on the enclosed run door and duh, explains why one screw out of the slide coop door mount. Hope it doesn't have big family.

 

Girls Go Viral Imitating Chicken Dance In Hilarious Video

 

YAY! Forklift delivered today to move in the new chicken coop. I was dreading another winter with the flimsy coop we had to canvas tarp (thus could not reach the nest boxes to collect eggs unless we forced a child to crawl under it after we took out the wind anchors-that will be a task, as well as it's so flimsy I doubt it can be lifted by forks). We should have it set down on Sunday going to sit it on and bolt it on railroad ties). We have errands tomorrow including new straw pine shavings for the floor in the new coop. Stoked (lol, will be stoking new stove soon ) to let them re-establish newly formed pecking order in a sturdier and better preditor proof coop!!

 

Sorry to hear that… ..

 

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