67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Loc: Russellville, Mo
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Not wildlife, but they're around my home. 
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wuchang
spiritual advisor and gatekeeper to the Spirit World
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Loc: uphill
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Looks like a little slice of heaven with fresh eggs to boot
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Loc: Russellville, Mo
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Thanks, Bill. I really enjoy them. 
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rb.
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Posts: 1010
Loc: mo
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Our new flock started laying a couple weeks ago. We're about thirty eggs a week from 5 hens. Nothing better than fresh eggs with some country ham or home made sausage.
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wuchang
spiritual advisor and gatekeeper to the Spirit World
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rb. said:
Our new flock started laying a couple weeks ago. We're about thirty eggs a week from 5 hens. Nothing better than fresh eggs with some country ham or home made sausage.
Yassuh........sounds good 
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fish
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Posts: 2464
Loc: Kingdom of Callaway
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Some nice looking cluckers there Kurt 
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SwampFox
member
Reged: 12/13/05
Posts: 7970
Loc: Mid Mo
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Free Range Chicken
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wuchang
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Free Range Chicken
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Mel
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Loc: Excelsior Springs, MO
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Looks like a good bunch of mother cluckers.
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names - John Kennedy
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67Firebird
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Loc: Russellville, Mo
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Thanks.
Something (I think it was a possum) killed a couple of them recently, so I've been setting a trap each night after I lock them up. Nothing yet, but I'll keep trying. 
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foots
the exterminator
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Loc: by my spiritual advisor, Wu
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Use a chicken for bait and you'll catch that coon. 
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67Firebird
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I actually tried that last year. I put what was left of a chicken carcass in the trap as bait, and all I got was a smelly trap.  I had to pick bones 'n feathers out of there to use it again, after giving it time to rot away. 
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67Firebird
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I put my game cam in the run, pointing at the coop door, to see if anything came through. When I checked the pics yesterday, I saw that a coon and a possum had gone in the night before. (That explains why so much feed is gone lately).
I set the trap just inside the coop last night, so that anything trying to go in would walk into the trap. It worked, and I'll be giving him a .22lr later today.
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SwampFox
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I hear those are good eating. Bwahahaha...
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wuchang
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Quote:
SwampFox said:
I hear those are good eating. Bwahahaha...
Operative word:
Heard
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Loc: Russellville, Mo
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I'm not trying that. 
All I know is that they're fun to shoot in the head.
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lying_in_wait
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Loc: Choot 'Em!
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Aint't ya got a door on that coop Kurt?
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Loc: Russellville, Mo
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It opens into the run, and I leave it open all the time so they can go from coop to run as they please. I like doing it this way, even though it puts them at risk.
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67Firebird
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Last week I got six more laying hens, and my rooster was happy to see them.
We also finished a goat pen;
...and got a couple young dwarf goats.
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wuchang
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What carpenter's local are you out of?
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67Firebird
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SwampFox
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Loc: Mid Mo
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Man. You have eough chickens to feed me for 2 weeks.
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wuchang
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Man. You have eough chickens to feed me for 2 weeks.
How many weeks with the goats??
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67Firebird
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wuchang said:
What carpenter's local are you out of?
I carpentered some more the last few days.  
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wuchang
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Damn--- you are a busy wood butcher ain't ya??
Still tryin to figure out that framing on the right
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Posts: 9172
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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I had a very clear vision of it in my head, before starting, but as I go along the results look... different.
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Deadeye
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Taste like chicken
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Mac
Birding Moderator
Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 3379
Loc: The Great State of Nebraskey
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Kurt,
I take it you "don't need no stinking (zoning) rules" in yer neck of the woods?
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Loc: Russellville, Mo
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The run is all free-standing; not an actual building or nuthin' like that.
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67Firebird
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Loc: Russellville, Mo
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Wire is up all around the perimeter. I still need to make/mount a second gate, put wire over the top (with help from family), and secure the bottom edge all the way around.
I may be slow, and not very good, but it'll work.
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Posts: 9172
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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Gate is done, but I still need to get the wire put over the top.
There's a local mouse-hunter hanging around, and it may decide to go for a bigger meal.
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wuchang
spiritual advisor and gatekeeper to the Spirit World
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Posts: 5209
Loc: uphill
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cool mouse hunter pix
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Posts: 9172
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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Thanks.
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Posts: 9172
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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A few people came over today, and got the entire top of the run covered. There are still some spots that need to be finished (small gaps where sheet metal meets welded wire), but I can lock up my chickens again. 
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wuchang
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Loc: uphill
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The chickens thank you and the local carpenter's union pretends they don't know you 
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
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Posts: 9172
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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My daughter, walking one of the goats.
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