Category Archives: VIDEOS

Chicken Fence – How High Should It Be?

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Your Chicken Fence should be as high as it needs to be to keep those chickens in and the critters out. My chicken fence is 7′ tall and is still not high enough. I made the fence very high so the chickens could not get out. I was letting the chickens out so they could feed on the ground, but they were digging these deep holes. So I finally stopped letting them out. Then I find 2 chickens are out all the time and I have to keep putting them back in. I finally found them to be just flying over the fence. This is in another post video-chicken-escaping-7-fence-re-entering. They were just literally, flying over the chicken fence. So I cut their wings. I have a post developing on this, but is just for entertainment as there are plenty of informative chicken wing cutting posts out there.

Chicken Fence Woes!

Everything was good for a while, I started to relax about it. Then one day I noticed one of the chickens out of the fenced area just having a good old time scratching and pecking. What is going on? What do I have to do to keep these chickens in this fenced area? So I watched and waited and I finally figured out that they were going under the chicken fence. Here we go again. This is the video that I have here for you. I plugged up the hole with a stick and a rock, then just one day later, another episode. I plugged that hole and have not had any more  incidents. Let’s see how long this lasts.

I have read that once you let your chickens free range, that they don’t want to be caged up. I know that the chickens that get out first have been free ranged before. The followers are just taking advantage of the situations.

Chicken Fence Height – Link to good article

Loggerhead Shrike – Calling and Making Noise to Attract Bugs

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At the time, this Loggerhead Shrike was atop a pole that was in the yard and was calling and making noise to attract bugs. As I got closer I found it just continued no matter how close I got.

Once it saw something it liked it would just go down and grab it and come back up again. It kept making these sounds for a while until it finally went somewhere else.

The cat with the Cacaca Call!

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This cat has to be calling the bug or trying to communicate with it. This cat is one of the kittens that showed up at our home about a year ago. It is one of three kittens. We still have this one and the mom cat. We noticed the cat doing this thing like he was calling the bug to come closer. He seems to be very preoccupied with the bug in the light. About 1:40 in is where he starts the “Cacacacaca”.

 The Rest of the Story of the Cacaca Cat!

Kittens all huddled up.

One evening my son said he thought he saw a raccoon near our shed. Then the next day this cat shows up with a ringed tail. Then we noticed the kittens on our carport. The mom cat would always be close. Then we kept seeing them in different places, we were thinking the mom cat was moving the kittens to help keep them safe.

Kittens playing in the Garden

 

Eventually I convinced my wife and daughter that we could not keep them along with our dog, 2 other cats, and 14 chickens. So we went out the next day to round them up and they were not around. After much searching we found them in the bushes, but only 2 kittens and the mom were there. So we took the 3 to the Domestic Animal Services and were able to move forward. They would not take in the mom, but gave her all the shots and spayed her for us. I am not sure if they even charged us, but if they did it was minimal. The other two kittens they kept for adoption.

Kittens playing in the Garden

 

That afternoon we found the other kitten and kept him safe until we could get him back to the DAS. They were not able to take in a third kitten and would not take the mom bacause she was ferrel. So we now own two more cats. Mally(the mom) and Macho (the male kitten).

Kittens Close up playing with each other

 

 

Now they are inside cats, which we keep separated from our other two cats.

 

 

Escape from Poultry Prison – More Extreme Chicken Fence

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Black Star Chicken scoping out landing on nesting box

 

This Black Star chicken was getting out almost every day, sometimes several times after putting her back in. We were seeing her out, then we could not find her, because she was back in. Then we finally saw her go right through the fence going back in the fenced yard. She went between the screen we put over the bigger 5″ fence and the upper rabbit fencing. This one chicken has dug lots of holes in the yard. These holes can really take you for a ride when mowing, and then will trip you when you walk. NO GOOD.

Black Star Chicken on Nesting Box

Now the chicken is on the nesting box looking for the next landing site.

 

 

 

 

 

Black Star Chicken landing on tall fence

 

 

After the nesting box she lands on the tall fence before leaping to the ground.

 

 

 

 This video shows the black star nonchalantly moving the direction of escape. Each step she is making it look like she is supposed to be there.

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VIDEO – Pileated Woodpecker breakfast in Southwest Florida – Giant Woodpecker

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This is a short video of a Pileated Woodpecker pecking on a pine tree. The pecking sound is very loud due to his giant size. They are sighted often here in SW Florida and are seen many times in pairs. The Pileated Woodpecker sound is very distinct and can be heard from a great distance. These woodpeckers are very large, and will shower tree bark as they are hunting for food.