Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

[Beekissed]

Al, you never have told us just what birds survived the carnage and if your old rooster of rooster kickin' fame is still around. Do you still have anything worth breeding left in your pens?

 

[Beekissed]

Around here, they're referred to as "rats on a rope".

Priceless! My dog craps bigger than these dogs stack up, but they always seem to be totally unaware that they could be squashed like a bug if they simply do not just SHUT UP.

Sorry....but after going into home after home where these overly fat, extremely loud and aggressive Chis reside, I have a hard time fostering up any admiration for the breed.

I've met very few of them that didn't make me wanna throw them up against the wall until the barking stops.

 

[smyers32]

Priceless! My dog craps bigger than these dogs stack up, but they always seem to be totally unaware that they could be squashed like a bug if they simply do not just SHUT UP.

Sorry....but after going into home after home where these overly fat, extremely loud and aggressive Chis reside, I have a hard time fostering up any admiration for the breed.

I've met very few of them that didn't make me wanna throw them up against the wall until the barking stops.

I have had the same experience with Chis. My yorkie was given to me as a puppy (a whopping 2 pounds when I got her) and she is my first little dog. She was raised with my doberman and a big 85lb lurcher on a horse farm, she was outside with us from sun up to sun down and learned to be a farm dog. She's not yappy and she knows that she's tiny, she is scared of nearly everything until she is thoroughly convinced it won't kill her. I'd say that's an appropriate attitude for a 6lb "dog" (I hesitate to call her a dog, but I do love the little rodent)

 

[mickey328]

Guess I'll be the spoiler I prefer smaller dogs...they're strictly pets for me and I like ones I can pick up and snuggle. We have 1 big one (about 90 lbs) and 2 little 'uns...8lbs and 5lbs respectively. The biggest (OES/hound cross) and the smallest (Pom/chi cross) are the ones that bark the most. The pom/chi is the yapper...of course, poms and chis are about the barkingest dogs going, so it's hardly surprising. Yes, her barking is very annoying, but frankly, it doesn't bother me as much as the big one's..simply because of the volume! The middle one emulates the big one, so when Sam (the big one) barks, Booger (middle one) has to bark and howl as well. Different things set them all off, so you just never know when something's going to get some of 'em going. Mostly they're pretty good, but since I do phone work from home, it can get pretty bad with customers sometimes That said...no more poms or chis in our house after these two...and no more shedders either!

 

[al6517]

Al, you never have told us just what birds survived the carnage and if your old rooster of rooster kickin' fame is still around. Do you still have anything worth breeding left in your pens?

The Hulk RIP was the first one lost as my wife tells it, all 3 WLR foundation hen's and 1 F1 WLR pullet were also lost, 2 super nice Dark roosters and all 4 of his hen's which were my ace in the whole for this years Best of Breed. I lost 2 other white roosters and 5 white hen's and a super nice white pullet. All LF pure Cornish, That is the tally.

I have about 20 very young 10 wk old whites, 4 Darks, and 2 Not so good laced WLR's all young this springs hatches on the ground, time will tell if a few of them are worth holding back as this may take 18 mo to see if they develop. I have some grown whites that are my layers not breeders and I don't hatch from them. so that leaves me no breeding stock left unless the young ones make the cut and that will be as I said many many months or year after next at the earliest. I am still going to a few shows in the hunt for stock and a pocket full of hunchski's to persuede owners to sell, if they look good enough. SOooo that's where my program sit's at the moment.

 

[smyers32]

I counted 18 birds? All your best. Sickening.

So sorry Al. Here's to hoping you end up getting some goodies out of the young stock you've left.

 

[Beekissed]

Guess I'll be the spoiler I prefer smaller dogs...they're strictly pets for me and I like ones I can pick up and snuggle. We have 1 big one (about 90 lbs) and 2 little 'uns...8lbs and 5lbs respectively. The biggest (OES/hound cross) and the smallest (Pom/chi cross) are the ones that bark the most. The pom/chi is the yapper...of course, poms and chis are about the barkingest dogs going, so it's hardly surprising. Yes, her barking is very annoying, but frankly, it doesn't bother me as much as the big one's..simply because of the volume! The middle one emulates the big one, so when Sam (the big one) barks, Booger (middle one) has to bark and howl as well. Different things set them all off, so you just never know when something's going to get some of 'em going. Mostly they're pretty good, but since I do phone work from home, it can get pretty bad with customers sometimes That said...no more poms or chis in our house after these two...and no more shedders either!

I'm curious...why is it that folks think it's okay for small dogs to bark until their throats bleed but not alright for big dogs to do the same? Don't ya all know how to turn that barker off?

I'd never let my dog bark at folks like that, be he big or small. It's just rude and has no place in the home unless I am breaking in to steal something from the home. Same with jumping up on the pant legs...NOT cute, not amusing and should never be encouraged or allowed, no matter the size of the dog.

Folks seem to think that small dogs cannot be trained to shut up...and the owner is right in the same room. I can see if the dog is outside and across the yard not having full control over his vocal chords but the dancing, gurgling, growling and yapping mutt is RIGHT in the living room within correction distance. Why is this never addressed? And when I say NEVER, I do mean NEVER. I've never seen anyone with small dogs correct them when they are barking at visitors that they have seen a thousand times.

Inquiring minds wanna know....

 

[smyers32]

Come to my house. Our little rodent is expected to have manners same as the big dogs, she listens better actually (only because if you hiss at her she'll run and hide under the bed.) She's a chicken....well not literally..

The big dogs only bark when people knock and then stop as soon as I get to the door, they back off and wait to see who it is. They are shameless attention whores though and will solicit attention far more than I'd like them to.

 

[donrae]

I'm curious...why is it that folks think it's okay for small dogs to bark until their throats bleed but not alright for big dogs to do the same? Don't ya all know how to turn that barker off?

I'd never let my dog bark at folks like that, be he big or small. It's just rude and has no place in the home unless I am breaking in to steal something from the home. Same with jumping up on the pant legs...NOT cute, not amusing and should never be encouraged or allowed, no matter the size of the dog.

Folks seem to think that small dogs cannot be trained to shut up...and the owner is right in the same room. I can see if the dog is outside and across the yard not having full control over his vocal chords but the dancing, gurgling, growling and yapping mutt is RIGHT in the living room within correction distance. Why is this never addressed? And when I say NEVER, I do mean NEVER. I've never seen anyone with small dogs correct them when they are barking at visitors that they have seen a thousand times.

Inquiring minds wanna know....

We must see the same patients! I'm here three times a week to do wound care and each and every time I have to ask you to put your stupid dog outside cause otherwise it barks at me the entire 45 minutes I'm here! With the owner and/or spouse continually saying "stop that, sweetie" "hush sweetie" "she's not hurting mommy sweetie" while petting/hugging the dog, reinforcing it to keep barking and not doing anything to SHUT IT UP!!

I have one lady who has finally let us crate her dog during her wound care. We've been seeing her 6 months!! Wonder why that wound wasn't healing with the **** dog on the bed while I was changing your dressing? And now it's all but healed.............go figgure.

 

[Hinotori]

I never let my schipperke just bark. She really, really liked to when she was a puppy, but I taught her not to. I had a muzzle that she'd have to wear for a bit if she didn't stop when I told her to. All I had to do was show her that if she was being stubborn. No more barking since she hated it.

Her job was to warn of anyone at the door since we had no doorbell. She was a fairly good watch dog even after she lost her hearing and was going blind. Once you went and checked what she wanted you to check, she was quiet. She was all of 12 pounds and did know her size. She'd keep looking behind her for backup. If we weren't there, she would not bark at the door.