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Chick_In_The_Burbs said:
When I opened the big girls coop this morning the big chicks all ran for the exit (as usual), then stopped dead on the ramp! All three of them just stood there looking around at the ground. Poor little things couldn't figure out where to get off the ramp without stepping in white stuff! Meanwhile, Sunny walks up to the door, clucks a few times and just turns around. I scuffed up the ground with my shoes to turn it brown again and the little ones finally jumped down. It was hilarious!
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LOL! My RIR was yelling at me as if it was my fault there was snow on the ground!
 
Well, not a good October for me. I lost my German Shepherd 2 weeks ago, a major loss.

Today I found out how it doesn't pay to ever let your guard down. My run is, I believe, as predator proof as I can make it. Wire fencing, hardware cloth up the bottom 2 feet and buried into the ground, A few weeks ago I opened a runway between my run and my garden. This garden is double fenced, 6' chain link outside with chicken wire as an inside liner just to keep the small critters like squirrels and birds out. Today I'm in my bedroom (which adjoins the run and is about 10' from the garden. I hear chickens being rowdy. I run out and there are 2 large mongrel dogs in my garden.

I forgot when I opened up the run to the garden that I didn't have a wire underlayment on the ground to keep digging pests from digging into the garden. They had dug into my garden from the county property which adjoins my outside fence. To make a long story short, I'm down a Barred Rock who was one of my best layers, and my favorite EE, the dark brown one that looks like an eagle. Sorry Wendell that I failed to take better care of your birds. It could have been worse, if I hadn't heard them, they had free access from the garden to the run/coop. It could have been all my birds.

I'm trying not to beat myself up too badly about not realizing something out on the county property could dig in; When I had my Shepherd this would never have happened., and when I lost her I never thought about how that changed my yard security. I'm just going to have to consider it a learning moment.
 
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gardendufus said:
Well, not a good October for me. I lost my German Shepherd 2 weeks ago, a major loss.

Today I found out how it doesn't pay to ever let your guard down. My run is, I believe, as predator proof as I can make it. Wire fencing, hardware cloth up the bottom 2 feet and buried into the ground, A few weeks ago I opened a runway between my run and my garden. This garden is double fenced, 6' chain link outside with chicken wire as an inside liner just to keep the small critters like squirrels and birds out. Today I'm in my bedroom (which adjoins the run and is about 10' from the garden. I hear chickens being rowdy. I run out and there are 2 large mongrel dogs in my garden.

I forgot when I opened up the run to the garden that I didn't have a wire underlayment on the ground to keep digging pests from digging into the garden. They had dug into my garden from the county property which adjoins my outside fence. To make a long story short, I'm down a Barred Rock who was one of my best layers, and my favorite EE, the dark brown one that looks like an eagle. Sorry Wendell that I failed to take better care of your birds. It could have been worse, if I hadn't heard them, they had free access from the garden to the run/coop. It could have been all my birds.

I'm trying not to beat myself up too badly about not realizing something out on the county property could dig in; When I had my Shepherd this would never have happened., and when I lost her I never thought about how that changed my yard security. I'm just going to have to consider it a learning moment.
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from me too. Ugh, thank goodness you were there.
 
gardendufus said:
Well, not a good October for me. I lost my German Shepherd 2 weeks ago, a major loss.

Today I found out how it doesn't pay to ever let your guard down. My run is, I believe, as predator proof as I can make it. Wire fencing, hardware cloth up the bottom 2 feet and buried into the ground, A few weeks ago I opened a runway between my run and my garden. This garden is double fenced, 6' chain link outside with chicken wire as an inside liner just to keep the small critters like squirrels and birds out. Today I'm in my bedroom (which adjoins the run and is about 10' from the garden. I hear chickens being rowdy. I run out and there are 2 large mongrel dogs in my garden.

I forgot when I opened up the run to the garden that I didn't have a wire underlayment on the ground to keep digging pests from digging into the garden. They had dug into my garden from the county property which adjoins my outside fence. To make a long story short, I'm down a Barred Rock who was one of my best layers, and my favorite EE, the dark brown one that looks like an eagle. Sorry Wendell that I failed to take better care of your birds. It could have been worse, if I hadn't heard them, they had free access from the garden to the run/coop. It could have been all my birds.

I'm trying not to beat myself up too badly about not realizing something out on the county property could dig in; When I had my Shepherd this would never have happened., and when I lost her I never thought about how that changed my yard security. I'm just going to have to consider it a learning moment.
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Ugh! Just finished reading all the posts. So sorry. So you only lost two? Did you shoot the dogs? Did you call the police or the sheriff? This is infuriating. Its one thing if the chickens, or in my case, the turkey gets into the dog area and commit suicide, but for dogs to break in in unacceptable. In the county, you can shoot the dogs. From our bedroom window this afternoon before taking Beth to an appointment, we saw two coyotes about 75 yards from the house, casually walking along. Rifle and shotgun are ready.
 
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