Debbie's Silkies

[Debbie292d]

Seeing snow for the first time since it melted a week ago. I guess they forgot. It's hardly enough to be worried about, but they do.

Prior to Paths





During Pathmaking
Josie the border collie always does this when we're shoveling. When he uses the snowblower to make paths, she follows beside him jumping up to catch the snow. When he plows with the 4-wheeler, she just barks at the tires.





After Paths

 

[Nym]

Seeing snow for the first time since it melted a week ago. I guess they forgot. It's hardly enough to be worried about, but they do.

Prior to Paths

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During Pathmaking
Josie the border collie always does this when we're shoveling. When he uses the snowblower to make paths, she follows beside him jumping up to catch the snow. When he plows with the 4-wheeler, she just barks at the tires.

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After Paths

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Border Collies are crazy good fun lol

 

[janiedoe]

Seeing snow for the first time since it melted a week ago. I guess they forgot. It's hardly enough to be worried about, but they do.

Prior to Paths

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During Pathmaking
Josie the border collie always does this when we're shoveling. When he uses the snowblower to make paths, she follows beside him jumping up to catch the snow. When he plows with the 4-wheeler, she just barks at the tires.

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After Paths

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Awesome photos...especially the one's with your dog! Your silkies are just gorgeous!

 

[Debbie292d]

Awesome photos...especially the one's with your dog! Your silkies are just gorgeous!

Thank you, Janie.

 

[TwoCrows]

Seeing snow for the first time since it melted a week ago. I guess they forgot. It's hardly enough to be worried about, but they do.

Prior to Paths

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During Pathmaking
Josie the border collie always does this when we're shoveling. When he uses the snowblower to make paths, she follows beside him jumping up to catch the snow. When he plows with the 4-wheeler, she just barks at the tires.

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After Paths

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Birds are sure snow is evil, no matter how many times the see or walk in it. Nice photos Debbie!

 

[Ponypoor]

Seeing snow for the first time since it melted a week ago. I guess they forgot. It's hardly enough to be worried about, but they do.

Prior to Paths

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During Pathmaking
Josie the border collie always does this when we're shoveling. When he uses the snowblower to make paths, she follows beside him jumping up to catch the snow. When he plows with the 4-wheeler, she just barks at the tires.

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After Paths

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Awesome love it!

 

[Ponypoor]

Debbie did I tell you I shoved a couple silkie babies under my horrible evil broody love-bug Georgie Girl?

Do you know how hard it is to find chicks here at Christmas?!

She is a natural mama. Would have preferred she waited until summer to go broody…. It’s hard in this cold with wee babies!

 

[2ndTink]

Seeing snow for the first time since it melted a week ago. I guess they forgot. It's hardly enough to be worried about, but they do.

Prior to Paths

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During Pathmaking
Josie the border collie always does this when we're shoveling. When he uses the snowblower to make paths, she follows beside him jumping up to catch the snow. When he plows with the 4-wheeler, she just barks at the tires.

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After Paths

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Awesome photos Debbie! I love the Josie action shots and your silkies are so fluffy

 

[RememberTheWay]

Seeing snow for the first time since it melted a week ago. I guess they forgot. It's hardly enough to be worried about, but they do.

Prior to Paths

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During Pathmaking
Josie the border collie always does this when we're shoveling. When he uses the snowblower to make paths, she follows beside him jumping up to catch the snow. When he plows with the 4-wheeler, she just barks at the tires.

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After Paths

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Did you Get her as a puppy? How long did it take to get her stock safe?

 

[Debbie292d]

Did you Get her as a puppy? How long did it take to get her stock safe?

Josie the border collie I got as a puppy while we still lived in town.




When she was about a year and a half old, we moved out to the country (8 or so years ago.) Then we got 3 chickens donated to us. She took over the job immediately of protecting them. We had no coop so they got moved to the garage every day until it was built.



Momma hen with a few chicks under her. She saw one of our cats eyeballing them.



If you forget your shoes in the yard, she'll guard those too.



When Maggie the Corgi came along a few years ago, she wanted to "play" with the chickens. She would go toe to toe with a broody hen that was outdoors and had so much fun being attacked but never hurt it; just played cat and mouse with it. Other than that, same as Josie, just keeping an eye out. She followed Josie's lead in patrolling the tree line and keeping predators from our yard.



Oddly enough, both of these dogs are considered herding dogs, and neither will help herd the chickens when they travel too far or need to be moved to a new coop. They'll watch though!

I know all Border Collies and Corgis don't automatically become great poultry protection dogs, but we didn't have to teach either one of these anything. I think a few minutes of each seeing how we treat the chickens, hold them, hug them, talk to them, etc., they knew they were to be protected.

Two different neighbors have had their peacocks and turkeys come here. They seem to know the difference and won't chase them, yet when the flock of wild turkeys landed behind our coop, they knew those didn't belong and chased them off.