Yesterday, my little brother went out to see the chicks and found a dead white Wyandotte lying on the ground, it's intestines all around it. :( We think the murderer is a weasel. We've seen how hawks kill and this was definitely not a hawk. I'll spare you all the details. We've suspected that a weasel lives in our barn for a while after my mom and sister spotted something odd that looked like one. Weasels eat small mammals, rodents, and sometimes poultry and birds. So, until we catch the assailant the chicks will remain inside their stall.
Daisy is broody!!!* I know I've said that before and then she stopped, but this time I am so positive. She's been sitting there for about three days straight. We had some complications with her eggs though. First Cara took them all and put them in the fridge, then Ethan did the same, then another chicken tried to get in the box with Daisy and crushed her egg. Now, I've moved her to a box the others won't mess with and she has three marked eggs.
One of the white Wyandotte's is a boy I think.* Wonderful... Not! It has a really big comb, that's why I think it's a boy, however I've been wrong before so we'll see. that would make a total of 8 boys, Veratess, Ravinar, Blue, Green, Conrad, Stanley, the white Wyandotte, and James.
My videos still won't work. My parents need to update the computer. So sorry!
Oh, and I got pooped on this morning. Ethan brought his chick, Cherry, in the house to show Brenna this morning. While I was holding her, she pooped all over my leg. Ew!
** I've posted some pics. Check them out at "BarnyardPics".
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Haha, I hope chicken poop does not stain. How does one go about getting rid of a weasel? Thanks for posting the pics on barnyard page, I love them and we learn a lot from that page with the visual. Thank you
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We are going to use a live trap to catch the weasel. Then we'll probably shoot it or something. Hopefully we won't catch a skunk. Even though the skunk didn't kill the chick it still might go into the trap. It would spray us before we could do anything with it. Eww!
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eww!!! I hope you don't catch a skunk either. You know I really really don't like skunks. I actually made Uncle attic move off a mountain where we were living in Roaring Spring PA because one went under the trailer we lived in. (this is like 20 years ago). Anyway, I was getting ready to leave for work (I was a temp. running the medical department at the Cresson Prison in PA at the time while the woman who usually did that was on maternity leave) and I smelled it. We literally moved the next day. It freaked me out that bad.
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