BYC Café

[A_Fowl_Guy]

We have them too. Had mountain lions in TN.

We haven’t had a cougar sighting since 2011. It was actually spotted in my county. I know we have no breeding population here though.

 

[DobieLover]

My Dad told us that the Quill will keep moving deeper because of the way the quill is shaped an being hollow.

Correct. They are barbed and cannot back out. When you pull them out, you RIP them out.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Correct. They are barbed and cannot back out. When you pull them out, you RIP them out.

Sounds very painful

 

[ShrekDawg]

My first male Dobie, Dylan, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy when he was 5.5 years old. On one of his visits to see his cardiologist, a Swedish doctor, I told her about my little red girl, Bridget, getting quilled 2 days prior. Bridget basically slammed her open mouth onto the porcupine then screamed and tried to pull the quills out of her mouth, throat and face. She then ran off toward the car screaming the whole way. The back of my car was a bloodbath.
The cardiologist then told me a story about a dog that presented to her with obvious heart distress that she was unable to treat successfully and the dog died. This dog had been quilled almost a month before the heart issue started. She necropsied him and found that a porcupine quill had penetrated behind the dogs elbow. The quill drove itself through the thoracic cavity then through the heart.

OMG how sad!!

 

[Bamabexchicks]

My first male Dobie, Dylan, was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy when he was 5.5 years old. On one of his visits to see his cardiologist, a Swedish doctor, I told her about my little red girl, Bridget, getting quilled 2 days prior. Bridget basically slammed her open mouth onto the porcupine then screamed and tried to pull the quills out of her mouth, throat and face. She then ran off toward the car screaming the whole way. The back of my car was a bloodbath.
The cardiologist then told me a story about a dog that presented to her with obvious heart distress that she was unable to treat successfully and the dog died. This dog had been quilled almost a month before the heart issue started. She necropsied him and found that a porcupine quill had penetrated behind the dogs elbow. The quill drove itself through the thoracic cavity then through the heart.

Holy moly! It's just amazing what can happen!

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Well good news for me! Off tomorrow so I can start stretching these hides. By next week I should have ten hats ready for sale.

 

[CapricornFarm]

We haven’t had a cougar sighting since 2011. It was actually spotted in my county. I know we have no breeding population here though.

One was spotted next door to my house at the time and it killed a horse down the road from there and they shot it.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Well good news for me! Off tomorrow so I can start stretching these hides. By next week I should have ten hats ready for sale.

If you don't mind, can you tell me how much you get for them?

 

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe.
Coffee is on the stove.
Off to look at some chickens later.
There's a man on the next mountain who keeps these.
https://poultrykeeper.com/chicken-breeds/fayoumi-chickens/
I've never seen this breed before. Apparently he has breeding pairs free ranging.

 

[N F C]

Morning Cafe!

Lots of interesting porcupine stories. I've never had an animal mess with one but I do have a photo of a young one that was in the golf course parking lot a couple years ago. You can see how small he is standing close to that drinking straw.

Shad, are you going to get some Fayoumis? I know there are members here on BYC that raise them but I've never had any.