Posts by MadameDork

I have another dog, Bowie, who plays well with the chickens.  She doesn't chase them.  She will ocassionally do the butt in the air play stance at one, but chickens don't really understand what that means.  If a ball...

Quote: Originally Posted by SouthernOregonChick  My dog does this, too! My dog discovered the golf balls in the chicken coop long before our hens were laying, and would go in and steal one and pack it around. Now he...

I know we are one of the lucky few whose dogs don't want to kill the chickens.  Our neighbor's dog LOVES the chickens they just got (we are slowing over taking the town with chickens).  But my other neighbor, who started the...

She's a good pointer.  I was scared she was going to give the chickens a heart attack following them around the yard at high speeds, but thankfully the chickens aren't scared of her.  If they don't run, there's nothing to...

I know someone else posted a thread about their dog doing this a little while ago, but I've searched and searched and couldn't find it.  I thought it was great that her dog brought eggs back to her.   Well, my girls...

My girls gave me eggs at 22 weeks!  I was expecting them to be late bloomers, but they started with my RIR and Austrolorps.    The bottom two are from my EE's.  The picture doesn't do them justice.  One...

I had two eggs when I got home today.  I'm pretty sure one was from the Austrolorp that had already laid, but my RIR was throwing a fit and left me one.  Now one of my EE's has parked it in there.  That surprised...

I got my first solid egg, with shell today!!!  My Australorp, Ethel started laying at 20 weeks and two days.  I first found a broken egg, so no picture.  My assumption is she didn't realize they were coming so she let it...

My RIR seems to only make noise when she sees people, kind of like a dog.  She is so funny about it though.  She's not quite laying yet.  Hopefully any day now, so I'm not sure about her laying sounds.  But my, when...

Ethel gave me two eggs that I found Saturday morning, but she dropped them while sitting on her perch and one didn't have a shell.    Couldn't find any yesterday.