Recent content by MMwallace02

Quote: Sounds as if you only read the first post. She's looking for was to secure her birds and train her dogs. She's had some helpful feedback. Thank you Wolf:) You guys have been so supportive to me! Obviously for now I can't have chickens because like I said, we have no more money to put...

Quote: So funny! I record his show and sat down after my last post to watch it and it was the one with the dog that killed chickens!! So great that I have that now to use as a tool!!

Thanks everyone for all the great advice! I am going to start working on "leave it" and prolonged "sit stays" and "down stays" I am also a big fan of The Dog Whisperer and am going to employ some of his techniques as well. It has already helped so much with a stray I have been working with in...

Quote: This is sooo true!! It never even occurred to me that the dogs would chew through!

Thank you all so much! i knew I could find support here! You all are wonderful. I traipsed through the woods a good bit more today with no signs of them. Our back yard is very thickly over grown and really there could still be some lurking around. I was only able to find about 7or8 spots where a...

I am sooo sad. I raised these guys up from chicks! I was actually anxiously awaiting my first eggs and the roosters had started to crow. Here is the story: We built our chicken run inside the dogs fence in our .5 acre backyard. This way the dogs would keep out any coyotes, raccoon's or possums...

This is a really great thread for me! I am struggling right now with what to feed my birds. The have to stay penned most of the time as we live right on a road and have dogs that would like to eat them for supper. I hate feeding them regular bagged feed so this thread has been really helpful...

I have a small brood of 19 Dominique chicks. I bought them from a local breeder. From the start one chick was much smaller than the rest. The guy had day old chickens as well as these one week chickens and I think one ended up with mine. All the others treated him the same though. I have had...