Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Had I not taken a glance out the kitchen window, I would have missed this. A turkey hen was in our front yard, probably in search of a tom. The guineas greeted her; there were just pleasantries, no altercations. The hen casually walked through our yard, paused for a bit in the backyard, then went th...

Argh! I'm so sorry! Try a tin of wet cat food in the skunk trap-punch a hole in the unopened tin all the way through the tin with a nail and then run a piece of wire through it and wire the tin to the top far inside corner of the trap. Worked like a charm for me for skunks and coons. They can't dum...

It's been about 3 months since I posted last. Time sure does fly. Since then, a few things have happened. First, we had a mink attack inside the enclosure. It got in through the barn. It killed 7 birds (both chickens and guineas) and injured 3. The 3 were brought into the house, and put in a dog cra...

This one is definitely where I live:
If the speed limit on the highway is 80 km --
You're going 95 and everybody is passing you,
You may live in Canada

Happy New Year! I hope everyone has a great 2025.

Killerbunny wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:32 pm

Well done caring for them!

Thanks. They grow up so fast! They now sound like adult guineas. We are going to have one noisy little farm! A few of them still hang out with their barred rock chicken mama,too.

The 11 keets are now 10 weeks old and get to the top roost in the barn as they have been doing for the past few weeks at around 3pm. A couple of them get some warmth under each side of a barred rock hen. And they are visibly becoming more independent, as well as larger. If we get the warm weather th...

Since my last post, a keet went missing and was never found. Now there are 11. It either did not keep up, or was adventurous and could not find it's way back to the others. Today, however, we witnessed something unique. In the barn, when we went in to feed the birds this morning, there were some kee...

I hope it's OK that I post this video. Some parts are really amusing.
https://youtu.be/iUh1ZAGZa8Q?si=B9HceArYWZwzGPpY

Happy Thanksgiving!