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I have a St Bernard who I ADORE. She naturally attached herself to all livestock we have or have had (poultry, sheep, goats, llamas, etc). And I have had zero issues with her. She has never killed or harmed one living thing. I did ZERO “livestock” training with her though (only basic commands)...

I never knew a hen could lay a spotted egg, lol We have some mixed breeds of unknown origin so not sure of the exact breeds for the one that laid this egg.

Why did this happen?!

We will be buying.

Muscovy

Thanks everyone! Has anyone successfully grown grass in their run?

We want to let ours free range but we are scared to clip their wings so they won't fly away. We read that if done wrong they can bleed to death and we would obviously hate that.

So for now, we cut a small hole in the door that only chickens can get through and hopefully the dogs can't and put the food inside. Hopefully it works. We hated cutting a hole in the door but if it works, whatever.

Images? I saw the one you posted and the video which was VERY helpful; thank you for that, I think we have a project tomorrow on making that feeder in the video!! Having a couple feeders won't hurt regardless, lol

I did, most things say raise the feeders. People don't usually have giants for dogs I guess.

Do you have suggestions on emptying out the water? It's a temporary solution until we do a more permanent pond next year. Just the regular construction grade sand is safe??

Thank you!!! I have a few ideas to try now.

That's an interesting feeder that has strong potential for working, how do the chickens get in there? Do they just like crane their necks?

They ARE strong. I was reading on another forum about cayenne pepper in the feed, that chickens dont care but dogs do. Has anyone tried that? I don't want to experiment with our feed yet again, lol What's the smallest size door I can realistically do??

Yes. We have a raccoons, opposums and coyotes that eye our coop constantly but my dogs chase them away at night and during the day too. I've seen them protect them on a few occasions and has made me grateful. Most recent was yesterday from a cat of all things. I watched my female literally bap...

Corn cob bedding....I've never seen that!! Where do you get it? How much is it? Do you mix the pine pellets and corn cob together?

And we let the birds free range so the coop is always open for them to get in/out. Only thing I can think is we can possibly make a door that is big enough for the chickens but too small for the dogs?? Just trying to avoid that though.

18. I bought the feeder because of how it was built, I was hoping it would keep them out.

I'm talking about the actual feeders where the chickens eat out of, not the storage of it, lol. I bought a large commercial feeder that has a grate over the feed but they still got into it somehow.

I bought a commercial feeder that holds approximately 30 pounds of feed or so which lasts my girls for a couple weeks, it was expensive but worth it because I am lazy. I would suggest it for your vacation purposes. Oh, and lots of water. We did a 50 gallon rain bucket that attaches to a gravity...