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carnivore said:
I'm beat!
Spent the day stringing electric fence wire all day, crawling through places men weren't meant to go. While at work last night, my dog tried to dig under the fence of my chicken run. He did not succeed, but came close enough to terrify the chooks. Last night when I found the damage, I thought I might trench around the run and put in a concrete footer. Lots of digging involved, and I'm allergic to work. Decided to electrify the fence instead as the lesser of two evils. There is a new Tractor Supply about 15 miles south of me, so I decided to check it out (they just opened this store 5-10). To my pleasant surprise, they had everything I needed in stock, and the bill was less than $100 (barely). Now, if they would do installation, too....
Got all the wire strung and insulated, feeder cable and ground cable installed. In the AM, will install a new junction box where I plan on installing the fence controller, then we'll go LIVE!

P.S. if the lights go out in Tucson tomorrow morning, will somebody feed my chickens?
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City farm said:
Allergic to work, that's funny! :lau
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Well, I went live about an hour ago, and no breakers popped. From my dogs point of view, my weakest wall is along my wood shop which is 2 feet off the ground. I had originally put in 3 foot welded wire fencing buried into the ground, but the dog keeps trying to dig under it. I ran a live wire 6 inches above the ground on the dogs side. Right now, I am installing a plywood skirt to the side of the shop that extends to the ground, so that he can't even see the chickens. For some reason, just the sight of the chooks minding their own business drives him into a homicidal (gallusidal?) frenzy.
Hopefully will be moving the older chicks into the run tomorrow, they are pretty much terrorizing the younger chicks.
 
carnivore said:
Well, I went live about an hour ago, and no breakers popped. From my dogs point of view, my weakest wall is along my wood shop which is 2 feet off the ground. I had originally put in 3 foot welded wire fencing buried into the ground, but the dog keeps trying to dig under it. I ran a live wire 6 inches above the ground on the dogs side. Right now, I am installing a plywood skirt to the side of the shop that extends to the ground, so that he can't even see the chickens. For some reason, just the sight of the chooks minding their own business drives him into a homicidal (gallusidal?) frenzy.
Hopefully will be moving the older chicks into the run tomorrow, they are pretty much terrorizing the younger chicks.
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E-collar
 
carnivore said:
Not til payday. E-collar won't help me when I'm at work.
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E-collar is only a training tool.
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my chick killer after his lessons with the collar. It's been about three weeks since he did it. Poor pic but I snuck up to a window. I was inside
 
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kpgoldstar said:
Oh goodness! That is just too adorable! Glad they are all well and happy!
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I just transformed the Dog cage. Had some cardboard from some fabric bolts, unfolded them and wrapped them around the inside of the base. then took some of the metal sides to the crates you make into boxes, and put a couple on each side so the holes are smaller..... I'll get some rabbit wire this weekend. Then took another cardboard from fabric bolt, cut up and made a couple roosts. Just hung a towel up in front of the door, on the inside and between the cardboard. Then placed another fabric cardboard on top to make shade for the food, water and a perch. yes, I have lots of fabric bolts. They were making their water so messy that I took out the pine shavings and cut a pad in half. The old people pee pads. (The are fantastic for kids water colors, Easter egg dying, ink cartridge filling, I always keep them around) Anyway, I'm pretty pleased and they appear to be happy. they eat out of the feeder, but I still spread some around the base. This will be so much easier to keep clean.

Question...... if this is NOT a good idea.... to use the pads... please let me know.
 
MandyFitch said:
Hey everybody! So much to catch up on here! Will give it a try this weekend if you'd all kindly stop posting long enough for a girl to catch her breath! haha

In the meantime, I'm not sure where to post this question so I'll try you guys first. There was a large animal poop on my wall (about four feet high) out front this morning. Looks very much like bird poop in the sense that it had the white stuff that always goes with it. But then it was long like a cat or dog's poop. About four inches long and maybe an inch around. WHAT makes poop like that? Not an owl, I know what their poop looks like from when I was a Girl Scout!

I could post a photo...

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I have found these in my yard as well as the top of the 6 foot block fence. My father in law told me it's from a certain type of hawk, but I can't remember which.
 

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