Comments on: Lights for your chickens http://www.kellys-stuff.com/chick/lights-for-your-chickens/ Experiences and information on raising chickens at home. Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:22:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.kellys-stuff.com/chick/lights-for-your-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-131 admin Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:22:08 +0000 http://www.kellys-stuff.com/chick/?p=217#comment-131 I have seen possums up here. Wasn't aware that they ate chickens. I do know raccoons generally will just eat the heads off, unless it is a female feeding her young, then they sometimes carry one off. Generally they kill just to kill. Chickens make for a great hobby. I came in the yard one day and found a goshawk sitting on one of my Wyandottes. Miraculously she survived. I have seen possums up here. Wasn’t aware that they ate chickens. I do know raccoons generally will just eat the heads off, unless it is a female feeding her young, then they sometimes carry one off. Generally they kill just to kill.

Chickens make for a great hobby. I came in the yard one day and found a goshawk sitting on one of my Wyandottes. Miraculously she survived.

]]> By: Pete McCullers http://www.kellys-stuff.com/chick/lights-for-your-chickens/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Pete McCullers Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:46:24 +0000 http://www.kellys-stuff.com/chick/?p=217#comment-127 Enjoyed your stories. They sound familiar to our experiences except we don't have any neighbors to worry about. Possums have been our bigget problem. At least I think its a possum cause my friend caught one in a live trap and it ate just the chickens head same as ours. We had golden comet sexlinks and man could they lay. A hawk swwoped down & picked one up but gave up after about three flaps of his wings. She was so fat he had to drop her. I thought I would drop from laughing. Sounds like you enjoy your girls as much as we do ours. We're in Florida. Enjoyed your stories. They sound familiar to our experiences except we don’t have any neighbors to worry about. Possums have been our bigget problem. At least I think its a possum cause my friend caught one in a live trap and it ate just the chickens head same as ours. We had golden comet sexlinks and man could they lay. A hawk swwoped down & picked one up but gave up after about three flaps of his wings. She was so fat he had to drop her. I thought I would drop from laughing. Sounds like you enjoy your girls as much as we do ours. We’re in Florida.

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