Chicken (hen) or birds pecking at my seedlings?

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Nope_49595933949

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xtsho said:
What's the time from chick to rotisserie? I'll never have egg chickens that live for years again but I could handle a few months raising some meat chickens for the dinner table.
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We run the Myers Cornish cross and anywhere from 6-8 weeks we harvest them. Our biggest was about 10 pounds after processing. All they do is eat, shit, and sleep. They are like a completely different animal compared to egg layers. We will harvest some layers this year as well and rotate in some new chicks we raise ourselves

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DarkWeb

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Nope_49595933949 said:
We run the Myers Cornish cross and anywhere from 6-8 weeks we harvest them. Our biggest was about 10 pounds after processing. All they do is eat, shit, and sleep. They are like a completely different animal compared to egg layers. We will harvest some layers this year as well and rotate in some new chicks we raise ourselves
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Yeah, I have a few friends that do meat birds.....totally different. They definitely don't fuck the yard up like laying hens.
 
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DarkWeb said:
But they don't get out and shit on the kids toys and deck. A chicken tractor is a good idea.
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Fair point. Ours actually aren't that bad, for whatever reason they stay off the playset. Ours actually spend probably half that day in the first 50-70 yards of woods behind the house.
 
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Nope_49595933949 said:
Fair point. Ours actually aren't that bad, for whatever reason they stay off the playset. Ours actually spend probably half that day in the first 50-70 yards of woods behind the house.
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We've had a few that where great. More like pets and would follow you around and hang out. But most where just outright stupid or assholes. Maybe if I didn't live in such a snowy area I wouldn't mind the chore but not again here.
 
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TaoRich said:
Has anyone ever had any experience of chickens pecking at their cannabis seedlings or plants?
Or any other birds?

I have some leaf damage on my plants
- young seedlings about 12" / 30cm tall
- 1 gallon / 4.5 litre planter bags
- outside in the garden
- ground level on the paving

The damage looks too erratic to be a small insect or worm
- it's not neat curved cut-outs like you see with something that holds onto a leaf and munches their way around\
- some leaf tips are kind of ripped off with a flat edge, and just the central vein remaining

And it looks to be too extensive.
- one night there was far too much damage to have been one critter
- and I do check them every day for pests.

We have a resident chicken ... and most of the damage is suspiciously at a standing peck level.

Also the damage is round the edges of a block of seeding rows ... looking like something browsed the easy to reach plants.

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I have done some reading, but all I can find are stories of seed eating birds pecking at buds. That's not the case here.
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Check under pots for slugs,they love seedlings.
 
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Phytoplankton

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TaoRich said:
Has anyone ever had any experience of chickens pecking at their cannabis seedlings or plants?
Or any other birds?

I have some leaf damage on my plants
- young seedlings about 12" / 30cm tall
- 1 gallon / 4.5 litre planter bags
- outside in the garden
- ground level on the paving

The damage looks too erratic to be a small insect or worm
- it's not neat curved cut-outs like you see with something that holds onto a leaf and munches their way around\
- some leaf tips are kind of ripped off with a flat edge, and just the central vein remaining

And it looks to be too extensive.
- one night there was far too much damage to have been one critter
- and I do check them every day for pests.

We have a resident chicken ... and most of the damage is suspiciously at a standing peck level.

Also the damage is round the edges of a block of seeding rows ... looking like something browsed the easy to reach plants.

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I have done some reading, but all I can find are stories of seed eating birds pecking at buds. That's not the case here.
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I had chicken get into my greenhouse once, they stripped the leaves as high they could reach!
 
DarkWeb

DarkWeb

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Nope_49595933949 said:
Yea exactly. We have an led bulb on a timer in their coop to extend their days. We were getting 17-23 eggs a day now it's down to 13 or 14 a day.
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I know people do that....but that's almost like a flushing thread haha......some say it's added stress. I personally didn't do it, but not necessarily because of that. But I also built my coop by the amount of btu's a healthy chicken puts off. I don't remember it offhand, but probably have it written down somewhere lol. I also went with a deep litter idea.....where you have 12"+ of straw/wood shavings and chicken poop basically composting under them. A compost pile puts off heat too. It gets cold here so heat in the winter was the priority.
 
DarkWeb

DarkWeb

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Nope_49595933949 said:
They could also be laying somewhere else. Those silly birds.
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18 once......I thought the hen was fox food. 18 days later I found her sitting on the eggs in high 90°s temps. The eggs go bad outside in that heat for that long......it was like 18 sulfur fart bombs. Fuckin nasty :spew: The cable guy was there and watched the start of it :lol:
 
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Nope_49595933949

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DarkWeb said:
I know people do that....but that's almost like a flushing thread haha......some say it's added stress. I personally didn't do it, but not necessarily because of that. But I also built my coop by the amount of btu's a healthy chicken puts off. I don't remember it offhand, but probably have it written down somewhere lol. I also went with a deep litter idea.....where you have 12"+ of straw/wood shavings and chicken poop basically composting under them. A compost pile puts off heat too. It gets cold here so heat in the winter was the priority.
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Our chickens were fine in -30 in the coop last year. In our experience ventilation is more important than heat.
 
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