Well it's that or hawks! I enjoy my flock too much to let the hawks kill my kids. In two years have only found one baby in the netting... besides the tiny egg I found yesterday.. Was no bigger than an M & M peanut!
I saved a little wild bird last year.. Found him stuck in the deer netting over the large round pen... Must have fallen out of the nest. Spent 2 months raising him up, and he finally stayed out one day... Never to return.
Oh, And Gator helped! That's why you just gotta love DOGS!
I waited for ONE broody too.. and finally one of my hens went broody (EE).. A week after the chicks started hatching a rat snake killed her, ate 5 of the chicks and left one dead. I hate snakes too, but that's nature!
OK, so let me throw a monkey wrench in the way you think. Would you keep an aggressive rooster around? If not, why not? Dogs are the same, aggressive dogs should be spayed or neutered and not allowed to breed. Full stop! How ever there are unscrupulous people who breed for aggression...
Because of bad owners and bad press! How many times do you hear of a chihuahua or Dashound biting it's owner or another person? Yet they are more prone to that than any other breed.
Well I worked at the Collier County DAS in the isolation unit, and wasn't impressed at all with their temperment. BUT, I have to say this. All of the dogs I worked with there had been mistreated or abused. No wonder they had a bad attitude. I've met so many since that defy all the notorious...
I adopted Gator just after the Christmas holidays back in 2016. The following Valentine's Day we went back with candy and a card for the girls who took care of him in the Humane Society. They knew he was happy in his new home by the huge smile on his face. Gator took to everything like a duck...
I found Baby Jay in the netting over one of my pens. Brought him in and fed him started food mixed with water. Finally after two months of Baby sitting, he stayed outside and didn't come back in. A proud but sad day for me. I raised him to release him back into the wild. He was a trip to...
The first time he sniffed a baby in the brooder, I told him 'momma's baby' and that was that. He often spends time laying next to the brooder or checking in on the chooks. He's just the best!