Danz, sounds like a good day for you, at least with sales.
Oh my, 4 eggs!
I'll bet she was tired!
I'm sorry Tory is too much. Our Weim is a sweetheart with us, but when company first comes over, she's a terror. She sometimes jumps, but the bigger problem is that she's a mouther. She's not trying to bite anyone, but they often think she is. And she's a big dog with big teeth; I don't blame them. We've been able to train her not to do those things with us, and mostly she doesn't. When she does, it's easy to get it stopped. We can't figure out how to get her to realize those rules apply to everyone. It's stressful when people come over and we often just try to keep her in the basement while people are here. Then they think we're mean to the dog. I know no one but us really likes her, though my parents try and they tolerate her well. Fortunately, I guess, people don't come over all that often. If your dog is causing you so much stress and worry, and not even doing the job you got her for, I think you're doing the right thing by not keeping her. It will only get worse over time. I only deal with the stress a few times a month. Dealing with it on a constant basis will probably end up making you sick or otherwise affecting your health.
Trish, I can't figure out why my chickens have decided this is the time to lay eggs. They sure didn't lay in the heat last summer.
Sounds like you're getting some good work done and the turkeys are cheering you on! That's really funny.
Oh gotcha! I've had it happen and hesitated to mention it because I figured people would poo-poo the idea as impossible but when I mentioned it on here several people said new layers will sometimes do that. In my case, I also knew it was the same bird because I only have one Cuckoo Marans and her eggs are quite distinct from the others. The first time she did it, she laid 4 eggs in one dayThey were all hard-shelled too. Needless to say she didn't lay at all the next day or two. It was several weeks later that she did it again and that time she laid two eggs in one day. In both instances I knew they hadn't been left from the day before because on the day she laid four, there was another new one there every time I went out to look that day!
Well, we have decided not to keep Tory. Long story short, the stress of dealing with her was worse than the stress of worrying about the chickens. The first couple of weeks she was doing fine but this last week she really started to roam and it was stressing out DH and therefore causing tension between us. Although the neighbors have so far been nice about it, he is acutely aware that we are new to the neighborhood and he doesn't want rifts with the neighbors before we even get started here. Already I have roosters crowing and guineas, so a wandering dog might be more than they can take. Also, she started to run out to the fence and squeeze under whenever a jogger or bicyclist would go by and ignored my command to stop. I understand LGD's are free spirits but they are still dogs at the end of the day and in my mind, they can't call the shots - they have to accept me as pack leader, just like my other dogs do. Tory will come when called - if she feels like it. If she doesn't, she'll just look over at me and continue on her way. And if there were a jogger, bicyclist or someone walking another dog, forget it. I've had to run out and apologize profusely more than once and while everyone has been understanding so far, quite honestly, I wouldn't be that happy if I were the recipient of a huge dog running at me barking while I jogged past so I wouldn't blame someone one bit for getting upset enough to report it. We've spent days discussing various options, and I've talked to my neighbor from two doors down about installing do-it-yourself electric fencing. He did his own and rigged up a neat way to do it, borrowing a relatives tractor and hooking up a hook upside down so it dug a little farrow when it was pulled. He even got the wire to feed down through the hook and directly into the ground and then his wife walked along behind pushing the dirt back down with her foot. So I was going to ask him to help me do the same at my place. However even he said the ground is just too hard now and we should wait until Fall so in some ways it felt like I got a free pass to wait a few months (although his isn't the only place she roams). Although that also means 2-3 more months of daily stress over wondering where she is at any given time. I had previously asked my neighbor if I couldn't just install it above ground but he said he wouldn't recommend it because it would be too easy to take it out with a mower or weeds or even weather, and then the system wouldn't work at all until repaired.
Oh my, 4 eggs!
I'm sorry Tory is too much. Our Weim is a sweetheart with us, but when company first comes over, she's a terror. She sometimes jumps, but the bigger problem is that she's a mouther. She's not trying to bite anyone, but they often think she is. And she's a big dog with big teeth; I don't blame them. We've been able to train her not to do those things with us, and mostly she doesn't. When she does, it's easy to get it stopped. We can't figure out how to get her to realize those rules apply to everyone. It's stressful when people come over and we often just try to keep her in the basement while people are here. Then they think we're mean to the dog. I know no one but us really likes her, though my parents try and they tolerate her well. Fortunately, I guess, people don't come over all that often. If your dog is causing you so much stress and worry, and not even doing the job you got her for, I think you're doing the right thing by not keeping her. It will only get worse over time. I only deal with the stress a few times a month. Dealing with it on a constant basis will probably end up making you sick or otherwise affecting your health.
Trish, I can't figure out why my chickens have decided this is the time to lay eggs. They sure didn't lay in the heat last summer.
Sounds like you're getting some good work done and the turkeys are cheering you on! That's really funny.
