There are a few different types of Black Snakes I believe. Ours are Black Racers. Owls and Hawks kill rattlers too. It is a rare day I don’t see a hawk on our property. We have an owl too. I think the water draws them.
Chicken/egg question
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Yes, and I have had a black racer come at me. We have owl too.
My new chicken "free range" space got finished last weekend...the girls seem to be enjoying it. They did a good job putting sturdy, tight netting across the top to keep hawks at bay.
My new chicken "free range" space got finished last weekend...the girls seem to be enjoying it. They did a good job putting sturdy, tight netting across the top to keep hawks at bay.
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+1 on Hawks getting them. I see a snake carrying quite often. This one had a bad landing on the electric fence
poltiregist
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Another prepper project finished before the apocalypse .
Arcticdude
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I started putting up the wire around the new chicken run the other day. I need 2 more rolls, 200 feet, of wire and put in a few more posts to finish. I need to keep a couple places open in the fence for the cement truck to make it up to where the new solar mount is going. The cement is 2 weeks out for delivery.
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Amish Heart
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I need to put up chicken wire over the chain link in my goose run before I put the young ones in. A project for sure. I have the chain link and doors set up to the new turkey area, it's 30 feet by 10 feet but have not put the top on or the bottom ground wire. That's another project. Hoping for some help, but probably I should just get my butt in gear.
Arcticdude
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Two days ago we took the new ducks out to the chicken run. The wife caught them in a big fish net and carried them to the run. We have two adult male ducks already and all of the new ducks are female. They're all getting along fine. The ducks are all Indian runners.
Speaking of chickens, there lots of poo to walk through. I got tired of having to clean chicken poo out of bottom of my shoes! Don't usually take time to change shoes so these work great...I ordered 500..you just pull them apart, plop them over your shoes ...pop them off in garbage n done. Bottom of shoes, clean as a whistle!
I have Crocs at the doors for outside. I have Telics for inside.
Personally, I have a pair of shoes for only the chicken house and run. Another pair for garden and greenhouse. No cleaning shoes for me. The stinky ones stay on the porch in a deck box with our rubber boots. It works for us well.
Back when the "cabin" at BOL1 was a doublewide trailer with a covered deck porch, and the mud started at the bottom of the stairs, we left mud slippers on the porch for when we needed to walk around outside temporarily. They were like Crocs with no ventilation holes.
I wear my muck boots out there but I think we're switching to sand in the house.
*the hen house, not our house! Lol
*the hen house, not our house! Lol
I have sand in the run and house, but I put some straw in the run to keep them from getting bored when I had to keep them contained due to predators. I also use pine shavings in nests and it get scattered on floor. Sand is heavy on the floors.
I'm going to rake it and put on garden later.
Do you like using it?
I do wonder if it will be too heavy for our floor.
I took lots of the sand out because of the weight and have more shavings now
I love the sand in the run. It is about 6" or more and the poop washes away in the rain
That makes sense. Thanks!
Had to put a hen down today, she hurt her foot it appeared, the other day but was getting around pretty good last few days. Thought she'd be ok. Today she got trapped somehow and the other hens were pecking her head bad. Larry found her and got my son to get her out and off with her head. I swear, those hens are mean as hell when one gets sick or ill. 
I guess it's nature (brutal!).
I guess it's nature (brutal!).
I take a chair into the run and just sit there and the young ones hop up and get rubs. Tonight, one was on my shoulder trying to peck my pony tail. I turned around and she actually pecked my eye. I immediately thought of The Birds movie.
Arcticdude
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My silly wife does the same thing. She'll sit in the meat chicken coop with the meat chicks, then she'll sit on the deck at the chicken house too. A couple days ago we put all of the new chick's in with the older hens. They all get along fine.
