ALABAMA!!

[A-K-A]

Big puppy

 

[Wisher1000]

New LGD pup -- Pyr / Anatolian / Old English Sheepdog and a face only a mother could love

25 pounds at 11 weeks -- DANG

Awwwww! I take it she didn't have any left? I thought I was going to ride with you to hold the pup! Just as well, I guess, my LGD has stopped killing birds and really needs a female companion, not a male. Good luck with him, Kimberly, I hope he ends up just as good as mine did.

WARNING : He will not be like any dog you have ever raised.

 

[A-K-A]

This hot Alabama weather. Are any of you doing or feeding any special ways or treats?

Wife gives frozen watermelon halfs. I make sure they have fresh water and shade along with feed. I always have kitchen and garden goodies for them. I think the frozen melons is a little overboard. Just give them the melon.

 

[bamadude]

We dont do anything special.

 

[chickadoodles]

I have a kiddie pool in most of my pens so my birds can cool their feed or a dish pan half full of water. Then in the afternoons I sometimes turn the sprinkler on them.

I don't know if you can see the sprinkler on top of the hen and turkey runs and two turkey pacing back and forth under the sprinkler in the shade.

 

[A-K-A]

When i water the apple trees or blue berries they get some residual rain from the sprinkler. I could sit in a lawn chair and watch the cluckers half a day. I don't get carried away with them. I am not buying diapers for them and bringing them back in the house. I figured the first dozen eggs will cost me $500 bucks.

 

[kimberly35042]

 

[kimberly35042]

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Lisa, this pup was TOO BIG to hold! When she told me 20+ pounds --OMG. I should have known! I put a carrier in the truck. Picked her up 4th of July.

YEP! We had a pyr for 12 years at our old place in Centreville. But we had no poultry then (rottie and young heeler made sure of it). We had horses and lived in the woods with every critter that also lives in the woods in Central Alabama. She barked all night every night -- sound of security. Died in 2009 before we moved (as we moved) at age 12. She didn't want to move.

 

[Wisher1000]

KK - I had a Golden Retriever do the same thing. Died so she didn't have to move. So sad, she would have loved this place.

I am lucky in that I have a spring that runs through the goat pen that is attached to the chicken coop. It is about 40 feet from the coop where it comes out of the ground. It is always cold and flows most of the year. It only dries up in the longest stretches of no rain. This year, it is STILL flowing, but is only about 4 or five inches wide in most places.

Because of that spring, I don't even put water out. I free range all of my birds and they make a beeline to the spring as soon as the door is opened in the morning. The chickens, and dogs, will stand in it to drink and cool their feet. It is in the shade and the birds spend so much time there that the ground is covered in feathers.

 

[A-K-A]

I wish we had live water here. It would make live simpler here. Our dogs go to the neighbors and play in a creek. They don't bôther his chickens or sheep and are skiddish around his sows. They don't bother our goats and think the chickens are their babies. I carry water to the chickens and long hose to goats.
Not sure how i would manage water for free range birds short of just a few.