Interesting.
I’ve got my place for a coup and I’d need fence in my persimmon/pear orchard or only a portion but I’d like to fence in an acre with a coup. Just a handful and easy cleaning that way. Maybe 3 or 4 or 5 birds.
I’ve been thinking about it… I’ll tell you that.
Appreciate it
Dax
could get a mix of them too. i think Stromberg’s does small order shipping.
I was just watching them. Black and Silver.
I could have only hens too, right? Do they still lay eggs and are they quiet like this?
This nonsense (noise) I’m not having:
they actually lay quite a bit for such a small bird and the egg is big for their size.
lol! it actually sounds louder than it is and if there’s more than 1 rooster they compete against each other. mine almost never crows.
I don’t need roosters, right? I can have all hens hanging out whether or not they lay eggs. I’ll eat the eggs but that priority is ‘elsewhere’.
no you dont unless you want chicks.
got it. last question, do their wings need clipping and how tall of a fence? I would use a wooden house for them to live thru winter…
another benefit of bantams is you can have a doz. of them housed in a dog house if you want.
they are fairly good flyers. just put some 1in. nylon mesh over it. my run is 4’. they never try to get out though. i can leave the door open when im cleaning in there and they never go more that 4ft from the coop. got to be careful not to step on them though.
I need quiet birds to walk around in an acre and also for eating bugs on the ground. And so they won’t get over any fence. What about Silkies for this?
silikies are poor foragers. with a acre with a feed/ roosting spot in the middle, they wont have any reason to try and get out. they only really fly when scared. they dont go far from the home roost. plant a patch of millet around their coop. that will give summer shade and food in late summer. they love greens also.
They lay eggs even if no rooster.
Yep.
@Barkslip — we live out in the country here and see bobcats occasionally. Most often when I am actively feeding deer, turkey with my backyard corn feeder… well the squirrels accumulate to eat corn too… then the bob cats show up, and well they give us a show hunting the squirrels.
We have a pair of Cats, a big male and smaller, somewhat long, lean female (your pic above may be a female)… the Males are often stout and blocky looking compared to the females who are more sleek and lean. Our female can catch squirrels with ease… our male struggles… I have seen him make a few attempts, but all ended in failure. I have seen her pick them off and they never knew she was coming.
I doubt anyone much now days is collecting bobcat fur for sale… there may still be a market for northern fur, but the market for southern fur really collapsed in 1988. I did a lot of Trapping and Predator calling/hunting in the 70’s and up until 1988…
At the peak of the southern fur market… I sold…
Male Bobcats 110.00 and females 80.00 or so
Red Fox 45-50 bucks
Gray Fox 35-40 bucks
Mink make 35-40, female 25-30
Coons - large male 24.00, female 15-18
Muskrat 5-6
Opossum 3.50-4.50
The last year that we long lined the Duck River was Dec 1987, you could only trap coons in the month of December, so we had 4 weekends to trap it. One of those weekends the river was up and falling fast so we could not set traps… the other 3 we got to trap it. We caught 101 Coons and 67 Muskrats (our primary targets) in those 3 weekends. And various other critters too… which were all sold for cash money to a fur buyer.
The last picture was the result of one evenings predator hunting, 1 bobcat, 2 gray fox, 2 possum.
Back then the Possums were considered mostly for gas money… 8-9 bucks would about fill your truck up.
Hahaha! That’s funny about the possum money. True back then though. They are buzzard feed now. Armadillo is big down here. And yes that’s a female and yes she had a mouse she was toying with when I shot her. Just her unlucky day I guess
last winters prices for bobbies was $200 for northern fur. theres still guys trapping them here but are getting up there in age. most dont bother trying to get them as its a real pain if you get a Canadian lynx in your set. cant use traps anymore. only foot snares because of this. beavers only $50. pine marten and mink $150 and $100 last i heard. quite a bit of them now that there arent many trapping anymore.
@Barkslip … made this one a few years back works great. Best I remember sch 40 pvc 5".
Below the corn in the bottom I have 1/8 inch holes drilled for drainage. It holds around 30 lbs of corn. Gravity feed.
Deer, turkeys, squirrels will sure love it.
how much for a non-resident deer license in I.L? 
you’ve already fattened them up for me. 
