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FIRST EGG HATCHED THIS MORNING, DAY 24 Baby is asleep in the brooder box now with stuffed lion for company. Pictures to follow later!

Quote: Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. I have only experienced "scaring them away" working a couple of times. They will come back unless the experience or location is associated with pain or discomfort. Actually, they won't if you do it right. We have kept chickens for six years...

I don't understand shooting wild animals. Why not scare them away, too?

Thank you everyone. Chloe's mom Wishbone IS broody again and her eggs are due around the first week of May. And she will see it through come hell or high water, so I know we will have more chickies. Izzie Lou, another faithful broody, is out there setting too. Otherwise, I would've been...

Thanks! I'll keep hoping then..congrats on yours!

I am so sad. Chloe's eggs have not hatched. We candled them a while ago, and they were looking good, but nothing is happening and this is day 22. I guess I should've known better than to hope too much, but I just thought..it was such a strange thing the way I found them, maybe they would. .

Quote: Huh? The dog was killed by a car.

Ten days or so ago I saw a dead dog on the main highway a mile or so from our house. It had been badly torn up by whatever hit it. It was a dark color with floppy ears. Didn't dawn on me at the time, but later I realized...it must have been the black lab. Have not seen either dog since...

Quote: Yeah, especially when they're offering a reward??!!! Doesn't specify dead or alive....

Oh, we have permission from the dog warden to shoot them. But yes, it's a risk, hitting someone, or someone's buildings, or whatever. My DH can shoot, he's an expert marksman, and so can my DS, but I don't think they want to shoot anything either. Our neighbors don't have any problems with...

WEll, since you know whose they are, call the dog warden and complain. Or take them back to the pound yourself, if they're friendly enough to catch.

Sighhh..dogs were back again today, this time in the evening. All the chooks in the yard hit the deck. Dogs didn't come close to the house but my DH tore out the door with gun in hand when he saw them. And they took off; they were gone in half a second when they saw and heard us and our dog...

Marion565 thank you for that information re the cold eggs...we are heating the bator up now and will put the eggs in tonight once it's stabilized. I'm hoping...Chloe was the only chick in her clutch of eggs to make it through to hatch in the intense heat of last August; all the others died bf...

I wrote about this bf but a year or two ago I came home and found two dogs chasing our chickens. There were feathers everywhere. I saw red, literally. I was in the car and started chasing the dogs with the car, driving over the field, following them everywhere. I was just crazy mad. They ran...

Quote: Have never been able to get that close to them, but that's a great idea.

OUrs are free range which is probaby what saved the others. When they are threatened by a predator, they scatter and start rioting; very distracting for a potential killer or killers. Although I can't quite get around the idea of poisoning anything, I'm sure that anyone who finds their coop...

I didn't think about this before but this morning I found eggs in the nestbox Chloe used frequently; they are all the same and I am sure they are hers. The nest box is one no one else uses and so I sometimes forget to collect eggs from it, it is an out of the way corner of the barn. Woud the...

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I would LOVE to have a donkey. Right now our field is in corn, but have been thinking about fencing and converting to pasture someday. I have always heard donkeys are good guards for the other animals. Wonder how our next door neighbors would feel about crowing AND braying? (they tell us...

Quote: That's the way the law is here too, as long as the victim's dogs are licensed, you can get compensation for your pets or livestock, although valuation of poultry is not much. Everyone's dog, pretty much, is capable of wandering occasionally, ours included in the past..not so much now...