I throw chicken feed under the truck for the chicken scratch, and this squirrel lives in the chicken coop and brings the feed back into the coop, and stores it back in the bucket for me.

When a rabbit shows up, he aint sharing.

Haha, mother nature at her finest!

Feisty little bugger ain't he!




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Watch out, the squirrel may decide to hide the chicken feed in your truck, after chewing up the wires that are in its way. I have some friends who had squirrels do a total of $8000.00 plus in damage to wires in 3 vehicles.

Keith

yes them red squirrel's can do lots of damage

That's cool.

He has been living in the chicken coop going on his second winter now. I watch him closely and any bad behavior like drilling into the house or truck and he will be gone.

But I always like the opportunity to get close with nature when its in my yard and usually end up learning something as I did with him. When I check his feed cache, I notice he mixes dry shredded cardboard to aerate the pile so it dont mold, he also gathers alder cones and mixes those in, I believe he thinks they are miniature pinecones, but we dont have any spruce or pine here.

Whenever he came too close to one hen with chicks the hen would charge and run him off. One day he had enough and when the hen charged he attacked back and jumped up on the hen and actually rode her around the yard hanging off her side while she was squawking and running. I couldn't believe my eyes. lol

I almost killed him for that but they now respect each other for now anyway.

Too much potential for damage with squirrels hangin around. A few minutes under the hood of my truck and im hosed.
My Lady makes awesome squirrel and noodles...shes had lots of practice.

Once tha damage is done taking him out is a little late. Watching them is neat but I also buy insurance to limit risk so am not one for taking unnecessary risk.

They can provide good entertainment. The squirrel/chicken incident would have been something to see.

A chicken riding squirrel!! Yahoo!!!
Did he hang on for 8 seconds?

Better entertainment than anything on TV!

last year out by my shed I feed the birds during winter , well one day I look out and there's a red squirrel, normally I shoot on site, but I'm getting old , so I let it be ,pretty soon I could get with in 5 feet of it , then one day I saw two squirrels , well as spring came around I saw 3 at one time , one early spring day I was sitting on deck with a buddy , he said what is that under your sister camping trailer , dang a squirrel, well somehow they got inside what a mess!!!!!!!!!!!, I went in my shed where my boat is stored and I see a couple squirrels , I go look at my boat cover its full of holes !!!!!!, so I wades war on them shot 28 in two days total of 40+ in a week , what a mess never again

Just about.. I thought of putting a belt buckle up in his cache.

I should note that squirrel's are very rare around here, we dont have trees nearby just bushes. Most of the kids that come by to see my chickens also want to see the squirrel. They never saw either before.

This past summer another squirrel showed up, I figured it would mate and have babies. I watched the little devil run the intruder off all day and it never came back and the squirrel is still single no babies.

Sure love the rabbits ! Here are mine. Diva, the dun, had the two blackies this past summer, I call them my slippers

She came here from somewhere in early spring, and stayed. I feed them pellets and bread treats . They are pretty wild but tame as can be with me. I pet them every time I feed them. It's good for the blood pressure

I have snowshoes like you do too . Neat shots you got of them.

I would think those black coats would be easy for predators to spot in the snow.

I have alot of Fox visit the yard and had a lynx stalking my chickens so the are eating the bunnies too I am sure.

The slippers do stand out in the snow. But they stay tight to the cabin and I have my choice of firearms at any time needed to convince a predator. They stay in my woodshed at night, so fa, so good.

Of course they are domesticated rabbits gone wild , from someplace down the road. I don't mind them here. I use the excuse, if I need food sometime, I'll have it handy

ya sqirrels are cute alright until..... aye sharon i like your idea with them slippers rabbit in the pantry. merry chrirtmas to all.