It’s all good. Just felt that was appropriate at the time. Hopefully no hard feelings. This is a very good forum. I’m sure I’ve seen your name before. Regardless. It’s a bobcat 
in N Florida… I actually thought my Zone was accessible? Zone8B.
Yes I see your zone. Didn’t catch it earlier
Hopefully my name was not associated with stuff making you go dark!
I have strong opinions on things but hopefully always shared respectfully
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I appreciate what your saying. Don’t take this wrong but it’s of no consequence to me. It really didn’t eminent from this forum but more.from outside nefarious forums. I’m a true believer that I may totally disagree with you as well as dislike you but you are every bit as entitled to your opinions as I am mine. Anyway. No harm no foul. All is well in the bobcat land. Hopefully you are living your best life in Texas. I’m doing all I can to live my best life in Florida. Keep.in touch! Stay warm…
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A roar in the night !..
I awoke at about 5 am to a loud ,long deep sounding roar. !
Like a African lion, or howler monkey…
Startled, thinking I had dreamed it…
Within 5 seconds it happened again !
Fully awake .i definitely heard that .
It’s hard to describe a sound , but …
this was very loud , deep , low tone ,roar lasting 5-6 seconds .
Seamed like it was putting ALL its energy into this sound. Like it was yelling at the whole world, with all its energy.
Apparently large lung capacity.
Very unnerving at 5am.
I got up and googled animal sounds , bear, bob cat, Mountain lion,
Etc.nothing came close .
I live in a area of vast forested land, and have for forty some year’s.
Never heard anything like that before !
Not a believer in big foot , but with 6 inches of snow out there, I do believe if it was a big foot it’s feet were cold…
So I am going to think of it as “ Big cold foot “
Any ideas of what this could be ?
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Oh , and the dogs were in the house , they never made a sound.
Like they were not going to challenge what ever that was.
Which seemed odd.as they usually bark at sounds in the night .
Whatever it is , I am hoping it does not like to eat fruit 
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One of them big contraptions that generate as the breeze picks up…in this case freezing up and grinding to a halt?
What is that in your shirt? I can’t tell.
That’s my cat “Dude” he and his brother “Guy” like to hide and get on my desk when I’m on the computer so I put him in my sweeter so I can work.
Can you figure where’s Dude’s hiding in the picture below? I love it…
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Geez, I hope you’re making a pit stop and not sitting at your computer like that…
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Oh, man. That’s a good one. I didn’t think of that.
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Awesome. I love my cats. Merry and Larry. Ones a black and white likes yours and Merrry is almost 17 years old. She’s a Flame. They lay on my desk too. And Larry can’t help coming in when I’m doing my business. Wants his belly rubbed and won’t leave until.i do. Very cool animals. Great personalities. They run the roost at my house. They both sleep literally on top of my wife.
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So. I got my pen pretty well finished. Appears I ended up with 5 roosters an 2 hens! Not sure about one rooster. McMurray sends a mystery chick and I’m pretty sure I’ve got a Barred Rock. The rest are Blue Andalusian and it’s obvious 2 are hens and 4 are roosters.
Anyone know if that first picture is a Barred Rock?
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Beautiful coop!
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TY. I worked hard on it. I thought it was pretty good for my first try.
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I saw yours and was like… Yep! That’s a Barred Rock…LOL
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dont want to be a bearer of bad news but if you dont cull down to at least 1 rooster before they fully mature 2 things will happen. the roosters will fight to the death for dominance, and they will breed your poor hens ragged. the ideal ratio for roo to hen should be 1 to 5. why i buy sexed chicks then get a roo for free someone’s giving away. good job on the coop.
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That’s true with most but not cochins. Some of those roosters i had wouldn’t hurt anything. Some roosters like many of the key west chickens are very aggressive breeds. My friends raised 100s of roosters they were using for food. They were all in the same pen it’s a constant fight. The man got a cut on his face from those roosters and he stood 6 feet. That family I grew up with. Bought a leg horn rooster out of a pen like that when I was a kid for .75. Leghorns are one of the meanest breeds there is. That rooster of mine was notorious and not just the breed but the back ground. The preacher I bought him from kept about 100 of those little roosters in a 10 foot pen they ate them twice a day I think with their meals. To make matters worse I took that rooster home through him in with the Dekalb hybrids I bought. Those Dekalbs snatched a bunch of his feathers off. Having few feathers left i took him inside with me. Then I watched him like a hawk for the next 3 weeks. In those days .75 was a lot and I needed a rooster. Those hens had ganged up on him fast when i introduced him the first time. Its not just roosters pecking order is a real thing someone in that pen loses so keep them spread out. The next time i introduced that rooster i watched and he beat up all the hens that time 3 weeks later. That rooster became one of the meanest while protecting those Dekalb. This was rougher country in those days and I needed a rooster like him to keep an eye on things. He paid for himself 1000x even stopping large predators like German shepards trying to eat chickens. Never saw anything try twice. When he crowed a lot it was a signal and I came and helped like in the case of the German Shepard. It would have won given enough time but short term that dog was cut all to peices and bleeding badly. The dog ran off when it saw me coming. When I saw the rooster he was so tired from flogging him he could barely move. One Hen later died that was the Hen he grabbed the rooster made him turn lose of. The days of keeping a rooster like that have passed in my area. Maybe in wilder country like this was it would still be OK.
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i had 6 wynadotte hens given to me. they were about 8 months when i got them. they were kept in a real small coop and had serious pecking problems i put them into my smaller coop and they still would gang up on each other. a lady down the street had a 10-month-old Amercauna roo she needed to get rid of. i put him in there and every one of those hens tried to bully him and he put every one down multiple times. in 2 days the pecking/ bullying stopped and there has been peace ever since.
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Yes they are an agreesivve breed notice who has the hens with him. If you look closely I had 2 that worked together as a team and didn’t fight! One is on each side of that red hen. Thats just how they operated. They were raised together in an open pen outside i would throw a tarp on so they were aware of what was out there. They saw everything from Coyotes to raccoons outside at night. Kept their mobile chicken pen right outside my door. Everything wanted them but everything knew one squak would bring me outside.
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