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Songbirds here moving around a lot less and Starlings appear to be weaning chicks early since the chicks go straight after the cicadas that are super easy to catch.

Like many parts of the US, we are having an emergence of periodic cicadas represented by three species, each with their own annoying song, even though they look a lot alike. The are really abundant on the ground where many will never be able to fly and ultimately reproduce. Not letting them go...

The hen above is the product of four generations of line-breeding anchored on the hen (Sallie) below that was 2-years-old in 2012. The matriarch hen looks a little lighter I think because we did not have as much tree cover and the pens were not yet covered by shade cloth. Feather bleaching. In...

Some of my hens in free-range setting would construct nests in open like a wild turkey or quail does. The same hens would limit their foraging, so it was within a hundred-foot radius of the nest. The hen would then challenge birds, including crows that come into that radius and near or on the...

Eating cicadas till can’t

I have 11 units like shown with cock and white hen. They can be moved onto fresh grass with some difficulty. Still having issues with Black Rat Snakes as they can get at nest even in the side ways barrels after dark.

Snapping turtles are hard to keep out. Larger ones will go after largish fish and amphibians and small fowl while smaller snappers can even go after insects and other smaller eats. Bigger turtles will prefer water at least a couple feet deep to use as cover. Otherwise, they will move out at night.

We just took an extended road trip with Toggles and another. We got to see some things having fun all the way.

Correct. Same thing happens with fish and even trees

I brought Toggles back into house to keep him out of rain. Look at check marks on tail feathers from when he was down with coccidiocis. There are no similar marks on his wing feathers I can see. He is getting extremely buddy buddy with me where he perches on my shoulder to preen and sleep...

Small mammal

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Gate to a pen left open. Owl knocked game camera over by perching on it. Owl is likely a young one since I hear it calling a lot. The owl is calm enough to visit during day even though area is relatively open. American Crows and Red-tailed Hawks that typically harass such owls during the day are...

Great-horned Owl came in when my son forgot to close pen door. Owl got a pullet and consumed head and neck leaving carcass in front of game camera shown in second image. It was a windy night blowing things around and we had lots of lightening too. Remaining birds (22) scattered themselves about...

Keeping chickens, especially when you have containment issues with the birds and guardians puts the burden of additional cost on you. If the cost of keeping your LSG contained to your property, regardless of what is going on across the property boundary is too high, then the cost of keeping...

After an hour she has resumed clucking and Toggles went back to cheeping. They are now on the roost together about 6 feet up.

And they are tidbitting for each other.

Toggle was released to hang with his mother after a two week separation. They still recognized each other by voice. The got into three short fights where she one each time. Then she held here head down to listen to him talk like a rooster bonding to young chicks. Toggles and his mom are now...