Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[staceyj]

Ps. The broom is for lifting branches and stuff.
Not all that helpful for snakes or bears

 

[Kusanar]

You said you took 3 dogs to help catch the roo, any chance that those dogs would help find the hen if you took them back out?

 

[staceyj]

You said you took 3 dogs to help catch the roo, any chance that those dogs would help find the hen if you took them back out?

Good answer !!!!
(Clapping as if I'm on family feud)

 

[apryl29]

@theuglychick , but if your going to be poking around under bushes, take a broom out there in the wilds would you? I'm worried about snakes and spiders
And poison ivy and bears...
Sheesh! I'm spooking myself and it's BROAD daylight![/QUOTE]
Watch out for bees/hornets/yellow jackets too! My daughter was rounding up our chickens one afternoon and hit a branch and disturbed a hornet nest. Luckily only one got her, but it was a nasty bite that ended up infected. Then later I happened upon a yellow jacket nest built in a bush. It's dangerous out there in the wild!

 

[staceyj]

BEES, HORNETS, YELLOW JACKETS....

 

[theuglychick]

My old dog penny is great at locating things, she has a few tracking and article search titles from back in the day, but she's going on 14 and her sniffer and attention span isn't what it used to be. Still, she enjoys going out with me. If any of them will find her it would be her. She's a pit bull lab mix.

The other two are goons and can only flush her out with general clumsiness and chance at best.

One (Chub) is a Jack Russell Terrorist (5 years old, but eternally a puppy) and the other a (JuJu) Border Collie x Cattle Dog mix (3 years old) has issues, is afraid of chickens, and only searches for, stalks, and chases dragon flies.

Chub and Nugget

Needless to say, I'm not working with much here.

Snakes are a huge issue here. Old dog penny had to go to LSU about a month ago because she pawed at a snake. It wasn't near as bad as it could be.

The strange thing was we didn't know about it. Hubby came home and saw all the chickens standing in a circle under the trampoline. He thought Juju finally snapped and might have killed a chicken out of fear and they were looking at a dead chicken. When he walked up they were all standing around Penny! He knew something was definitely wrong.

Here was her paw. She was lucky. I've seen MUCH worse!

Still I'm not afraid of snakes, but I am very cautious. That being said, you can only be so cautious when they are nearly invisible on the ground. Especially copper heads.

You said you took 3 dogs to help catch the roo, any chance that those dogs would help find the hen if you took them back out?

 

[Suzi18]

Lions and Tigers and Bears....oh my!!!

 

[sannabelle]

Glad Penny is okay and recovered from her snake bite!!! My pitty is way too into snakes for her own good. If she stumbles across one she treats it like a big ole rope toy I'm surprised your JRT doesn't go after snakes! My aunt has three and they are snake hunting machines!!!!

 

[theuglychick]

Thank you, we are glad, too. Penny has been with me for more than half of my adult life and I'm just not ready to say goodbye yet.

All the other JRTs that I've had before Chub would have definitely went after the snake and shook it till it was dead, and then continued to shake it some more. But ole' Chub is only a JRT in the sense that that was what the breeder claimed that he was when my husband got him. Other than that, he's not really all that "russelly".

Glad Penny is okay and recovered from her snake bite!!! My pitty is way too into snakes for her own good. If she stumbles across one she treats it like a big ole rope toy I'm surprised your JRT doesn't go after snakes! My aunt has three and they are snake hunting machines!!!!

 

[Peach9610]

My old dog penny is great at locating things, she has a few tracking and article search titles from back in the day, but she's going on 14 and her sniffer and attention span isn't what it used to be. Still, she enjoys going out with me. If any of them will find her it would be her. She's a pit bull lab mix.

The other two are goons and can only flush her out with general clumsiness and chance at best.

One (Chub) is a Jack Russell Terrorist (5 years old, but eternally a puppy) and the other a (JuJu) Border Collie x Cattle Dog mix (3 years old) has issues, is afraid of chickens, and only searches for, stalks, and chases dragon flies.

Chub and Nugget
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Needless to say, I'm not working with much here.

Snakes are a huge issue here. Old dog penny had to go to LSU about a month ago because she pawed at a snake. It wasn't near as bad as it could be.

The strange thing was we didn't know about it. Hubby came home and saw all the chickens standing in a circle under the trampoline. He thought Juju finally snapped and might have killed a chicken out of fear and they were looking at a dead chicken. When he walked up they were all standing around Penny! He knew something was definitely wrong.

Here was her paw. She was lucky. I've seen MUCH worse!
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Still I'm not afraid of snakes, but I am very cautious. That being said, you can only be so cautious when they are nearly invisible on the ground. Especially copper heads.

Chub and Nugget are adorable!!