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I guess I best let them go till next season.

Makes me wonder where the question about "Why did the chicken cross the road" started from?

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pesty3782 said:
I have the same issue here, but it is either qual (Wife says they are family and off limits 🤬) or rabbits. One rabbit I have a green light on because he is eating and digging near her plants 👍

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Chickens are family???? What kind of family is chicken? Only kind chicken family is the family chicken dinner.
 
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We have chickens and we let them free range. Its like they have a death wish.... They always seem to migrate around the targets and in the shooting lane. Never fails to happen when they are out and I'm out shooting

P.S. No chickens have been harmed by an air rifle yet.... 😆
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MMMMMMMMMMMM chicken &gravy over biscuits

we had wild Guiney hens when we moved here , five , then 4 , then 3 , then there was none . wasn't me i was told the wild ones are tougher . Guiny hens can and do roam up to 10 miles away for the roost in a day , 20 miles 'round trip .
 
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Have a similar problem with deer wandering into my shooting lane.

Enough so that the last checks just before shooting are: check chrony is armed; check bubble is centered; check the shooting lane is clear. :)

Nothing like a scope full of blurry deer face to break your concentration LOL!

Yeah, don't deer hunt anymore... they all have names and come when I call them, hardly sporting.
 
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In many ways I would love to have free ranging chickens on a nice piece of property, fresh eggs every morning would be amazing.


Question for all those with free ranging chicken: have you guys look inside of their gizzard(if/when you eat them) to see if they ate pellets? Many people say and birds are known to east small pebbles to aid digestion. If so then their eggs might have extra dose of heavy metal, hope not.
 
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qball said:
In many ways I would love to have free ranging chickens on a nice piece of property, fresh eggs every morning would be amazing.


Question for all those with free ranging chicken: have you guys look inside of their gizzard(if/when you eat them) to see if they ate pellets? Many people say and birds are known to east small pebbles to aid digestion. If so then their eggs might have extra dose of heavy metal, hope not.
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Now that never crossed my mind. They for sure scratch a lot for small pebbles but I have my doubts about pellets. If my wife caught wind of your post my shooting days would be over or I'd have to account for every pellet shot. We feed organic and supply oyster shell so any thought of lead would be devastating.

I just killed two old ones a few weeks ago, next time I'll do an autopsy. Wish you never would have posted that question! :)
 
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@qball and @JOERM I’m glad you posed this question because that’s exactly what I wanted to ask until I found that it had already been posted. I’ve raised them and it is very feasible. I know I’ve spilled and dropped pellets and had some ricochet from stacking them or hitting something a target was affixed to or sitting upon while sighting in or tuning. In my observation, chickens will swallow a wide array of small objects they can get their beaks around.
 
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I just checked around my targets and did not see signs of chicken scratching around them except for one spot, maybe. The majority of my shooting is .30 and .45's and my guess is that those are way too large for them to want.

When I do shoot smaller calls the majority of them embed into the wood backstop or drop behind the board and metal plate which makes it easy to clean up and keeps chickens away.

For sure though from now on I'm going to be much more cautious. I did a quick search about lead in eggs, lots of info but nothing about pellets, just lead in natural ground. You can have their blood or eggs tested but it's expensive so I think gutting one out is the best way. Just one .177 in gizzard could cause some alarm I suppose but mostly to young kids. The yokes is where the lead is mostly at.
 
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