Coffee Club

[Chick-N-Fun]

Happy Valentine's Day, my friends! ♥

 

[aart]

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Good morning, all. I like @Shadrach's insights into Sarge's possible motives for fighting the hawk, but the net result is the same, the hens (most of them) are safe. Go, Sarge! I've got hot water on for the un-coffee drinkers (Pero, tea, herbal tea, whatever). Coffee is too acidic for me.

It's NOT RAINING!!! Dry and sunny, with temps in the teens. Will warm up over the weekend, but it will rain again. I'll enjoy the cold and sun while it's here. Have a great day, y'all.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oh gee. That was small beans compared to the stuff Amber did! She was an accident looking for a place to happen. Here is an off the top of my head list of stuff she did:

• Broke her canines in half biting rocks on the creek bed while playing with my nephew.
• Got kicked in the side of the neck and thrown about 10 feet by my horse.
• Jumped out of my truck window while moving about 30 mph down the road because she saw a rabbit and went after it. She was tumbling down the road when I looked up in my rear view mirror after she went over the edge of the door.
• She tore her patellar ligament in her knee after running down the hill and jumping sideways over a snow bank. That cost $3,000 for the surgery to repair her knee.
• She impaled the back of her throat with a stick while playing fetch. The stick started tumbling end over end and she went to grab the stick when it was end up.
• And her coup de grace, she slammed herself into an large old style rototiller with a very heavy metal piece for tilling a furrow. She split her upper leg/lower chest wide open. You could see her femoral artery and the ligaments and muscles. It took two surgeries to close that. The vet told me if she'd hit just a little harder it would have nicked the artery and she would have bled to death.

This is her. Ironically, she is the one who got me hooked on the breed. She was also a pet therapy dog.
View attachment 2025194

She sounds like a cat, with 9 lives!

 

[DobieLover]

She sounds like a cat, with 9 lives!

She did a lot more damage than this list. These were just some of her more memorable moments.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Oooo I saw those on TV....let us know if they are for real......you have hand pain?

The Sav-a-chick? Once a week or so during extreme temps, both hot and cold.

Bet he ran past a sharp stick. Rascal cut his side open once....I walked his woods trail and that jagged 2" broken branch poked me pretty good. View attachment 2025564

Yes, I have arthritis in my hands. The quilting helps keep them moving. My right thumb is enlarged from it.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good afternoon, all! As promised, the sun is out today Accompanied by some ridiculous wind, but I'll take it.

Finally put on my big girl britches and have a call in to the doc today to see if I can get a referral and figure out this arthritis malarkey. My one finger is twice its normal size and purple at the knuckle. Not a clue what's going on here, but time to figure it out. If anyone has any luck to spare, I'll gladly return the favor!

Hope everyone has a lovely day!

Good luck Meg!

 

[DobieLover]

I get called cynical when I mention this.
I very rarely have a rooster take on a hawk before a strike. What happens is the hawk makes the strike and the rooster sees some strange dude on top of one of his hens. That's what makes them attack. Imo it's not so much about protecting the hen from the hawk but about not wanting anything/anybody mating with her. It's the same response some humans get when they pick up one of a roosters hens.
On those occasions where a rooster looks as if he has been fighting a hawk it's usually because once he's given the warning call and his hens have scattered he's still out in the open and the hawk diverts it's strike to the rooster.
I would love to believe roosters were knights in shining armour and all that but they are a bit brighter than the average knight ime.

He could also have just given the normal peck to the head the way his father and Capitan did to him. But he attacked it.
Did you see the video of the rooster in a coop attacking a hawk? He wouldn't let up even though it got down to just him and the hawk with the head hen occasionally running in and giving a head shot or two.

 

[Shadrach]

Wll, it's taken a while but I/we finally tracked down the women whose Huskies killed one of our sheep and lovely Ruffles. She holds dog training classes apparently.
I've been asked if I want to prosecute. This of course would mean the dogs get destroyed.
It's not the dogs fault. What I am going to do is go around to her house with pictures of Ruffles in her grave and Ruffles's family history and that of Thistle the ewe and make her look at what her stupidity and arrogance caused.
Her dogs have gone on the dangerous dogs list here. Most know about the incident now and if she is seen anywhere near the park with her dogs they won't get a warning.

 

[DobieLover]

Wll, it's taken a while but I/we finally tracked down the women whose Huskies killed one of our sheep and lovely Ruffles. She holds dog training classes apparently.
I've been asked if I want to prosecute. This of course would mean the dogs get destroyed.
It's not the dogs fault. What I am going to do is go around to her house with pictures of Ruffles in her grave and Ruffles's family history and that of Thistle the ewe and make her look at what her stupidity and arrogance caused.
Her dogs have gone on the dangerous dogs list here. Most know about the incident now and if she is seen anywhere near the park with her dogs they won't get a warning.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.