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[jastech]

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[jastech]

So that you can see a "small" part out our world of what we have been dealing with.

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[jastech]

There are many more. Not included is my back door kicked in at the patio entrance, water turned off of toilet, toilet unbolted then stolen, along with 120 lbs of dog food twice. We can't afford to move, so, we have to hunker down. I still have 7 surgeries pending, I was electrocuted in 2007 at the job. Almost killed me, second surgery I went code, 6 months later my wife abandoned us. So, now you have a "feel" of what I'm fighting here.

Need to add, The Lord has never let me down. I may have a path, but The Lord has a path for me, who's do you think us better? I'll go with The Lord!

 

[McChooky]

The first chickens killed were about 16' from side of house, didn't matter. These dogs running loose are hungry and some as stated here just like to kill chickens, ducks and my goats. So that's why my son and I built the hog wire coop with chicken wire over it. Yes, hardware cloth is better, I can't afford it at this time. If no dogs running loose and no thieves I wouldn't be having this problem. I didn't expect to spend 1,000 on a coop/run. Never had this problem before. That's the same as: I bought a car that I can afford, then it was stolen, Why didn't you build a garage with security??? Because some of us only have very little money, so we buy what we can. So if you can't afford the garage with security, then don't buy a car, just walk! My family needs the eggs to eat, we need the sells of the eggs to pay on utilities and buy food. Its not our fault dummies let their digs run loose and the city council ignores it, or that druggies cook meth in town. We have to live here, I spent everything I had to move and the down on this old ho

I bought a farm I'd always wanted off a friend after her husband went into a nursing home (Alzheimer's) They'd always said if they ever sold the farm they'd offer to me first.She couldn't keep the place up by herself and her neighbor was pressuring her hard to sell.She admitted "someone" was trying to frighten her and shooting outside her window at night.She showed me the shell casing in the yard.Her family got everything out of their old home place and after I moved in I fixed it all up .I mended a few fences and replaced a few boards on the old barn . I planted a garden and built a huge chicken run for the chickens.Then one day out of the blue my water went off. My son in law checked and said the spring was overflowing but the reservoir had no drain lines in the bottom of it .No way to get water to the house. Some friends from a local Church came with sledge hammers, pick axes , shovels, hammers,chisels,etc and busted all that concrete in the bottom of the reservoir loose and ran new water lines .2 weeks later it was all fixed.Meanwhile the same neighbor calls me offering to buy the farm (claiming springs were sunk due to coal mining in the area). He offered me peanuts for the farm and I flatly refused to sell it to him -at any price! I kept it long enough to find a new place then sold my chickens to a friend down the road from me.I sold my farm to a lady I'd know for years ,someone who'd grown up in the area and only lived a mile from there. She gave me my asking price without quibbling and was packed and gone in a week(I heard thru the grapevine her hubby was in Hells Angels.)My neighbor immediately built a big wood box over his water spring the same week I sold the farm then he put a lock on the box.Only a guilty conscious makes a man do something like that.The lady who bought my farm lived in peace and he never tried to buy it again.I guess the moral of this story is if you do good you'll prosper in spite of your troubles.I never bought another farm .

 

[BigCock360]

I'm not an expert when it comes to raising chickens. However, I don't know if anyone has tried this but my uncle would flip on a switch that turned the power on the electrified fence that was a separate layer so to speak along the fence line. The chickens didn't get electrocuted, due to the insulation and it was just another layer of chicken wire that had + and - posts. Also rubber strips so the electrical current did not make the whole thing dangerous for your flock..I saw a raccoon literally jump and fall to it's side while convulsing... Just a suggestion....

 

[DatCampG]

My son and I have been raising Red Star, Delaware and Barred Rock chickens a long with Pekin, Rouen, Runner and Muscovy ducks. I'm disabled so the eggs help the grocery bill and selling the extra eggs pays their food, treats and on utilities. My son went out to feed and this is what he saw.View attachment 2801622

 

[jastech]

I bought a farm I'd always wanted off a friend after her husband went into a nursing home (Alzheimer's) They'd always said if they ever sold the farm they'd offer to me first.She couldn't keep the place up by herself and her neighbor was pressuring her hard to sell.She admitted "someone" was trying to frighten her and shooting outside her window at night.She showed me the shell casing in the yard.Her family got everything out of their old home place and after I moved in I fixed it all up .I mended a few fences and replaced a few boards on the old barn . I planted a garden and built a huge chicken run for the chickens.Then one day out of the blue my water went off. My son in law checked and said the spring was overflowing but the reservoir had no drain lines in the bottom of it .No way to get water to the house. Some friends from a local Church came with sledge hammers, pick axes , shovels, hammers,chisels,etc and busted all that concrete in the bottom of the reservoir loose and ran new water lines .2 weeks later it was all fixed.Meanwhile the same neighbor calls me offering to buy the farm (claiming springs were sunk due to coal mining in the area). He offered me peanuts for the farm and I flatly refused to sell it to him -at any price! I kept it long enough to find a new place then sold my chickens to a friend down the road from me.I sold my farm to a lady I'd know for years ,someone who'd grown up in the area and only lived a mile from there. She gave me my asking price without quibbling and was packed and gone in a week(I heard thru the grapevine her hubby was in Hells Angels.)My neighbor immediately built a big wood box over his water spring the same week I sold the farm then he put a lock on the box.Only a guilty conscious makes a man do something like that.The lady who bought my farm lived in peace and he never tried to buy it again.I guess the moral of this story is if you do good you'll prosper in spite of your troubles.I never bought another farm .

That is sad, I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope to have our place secured and animals back up to the numbers needed for us to survive. Will be next year I think. Then get everything paid off so my son has a place to live if I die before he can buy his own (he's 14).

 

[jastech]

That would be my last resort, only if our lives are being threatened. Cameras, fence and Kangal should detour them.

 

[Geena]

I "had" 9 dogs, 68 chickens, and about 43 ducks total. Now there are 5 dogs, 10 ducks and 17 chickens.

I'm surprised you would have any predator attacks at all having had nine, now five dogs on the property. I only have two and they keep my place predator free, critters and humans.

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

I'm surprised you would have any predator attacks at all having had nine, now five dogs on the property. I only have two and they keep my place predator free, critters and humans.

Agreed, I have two dogs that are off only during the day, and aside from the occasional raccoon we are predator free.