I guess I shouldn't have posted to this thread, since I am not using my PET dog to GUARD a huge amount of chickens from which I make a living. I was only saying that my pet dog gets along fine with my chickens, as we trained him. He is never hungry, even when the chickens eat his food, as we...
We have always had a Golden Retriever for our pet, and he makes a great protector for our chickens. Our biggeat problem here is coyotes. We trained him from the beginning to leave the chickens alone. They free range and he goes outside with them to hang out. My biggest problem with this...
Hello all,
Thanks for all your condolences.
I have a coop that will fit 7 hens, and they free range in my backyard from about 7:30am to dusk, when they go in the coop on their own.
Pocahontas, the hen that died this week, behaved the same way this week as she did about a year ago. A year ago...
Hello,
I have been lurking for quite some time on this site. Lol
I am a home school mom of 4 and live in southern California.
I have had chickens for about 2 years now, so I am quite new at this. I started with hens from my in-laws. We lost a couple to coyotes, one to a raccoon, and a couple to...