It has been along time since I had to post, and we have had good luck the past year. But the last 3 or 4 nights something has been getting the gate open to our chicken pen, but not hurting the chickens. I locked it with karabiner last night so the latch couldn’t open, but this morning at sunrise my 9 month poodle puppy was going bananas.
I kept telling him to go back to bed, but he was really upset, so I got up. We live in a rural area and we have a lot of wild animals around. The next thing I know my 12 year old daughter is out the door in her pjs and chasing dogs through the back acreage, screaming and crying, with our Doberman & poodle in hot pursuit. I yelled for her to come back, but she wouldn’t stop, she ran out about 450 yards. The gate to our 25’ x 24’ pen was wide open with the gate hinge broken completely off. :O
After counting the chickens I knew one was gone, and then I hear my daughter returning. It was freezing outside, and I didn’t even have shoes, and she had no coat. She was carrying something back from the neighbour’s house, crying with our dogs following behind. Their dogs got our big rooster named Red the Rooster. My daughter was in hysterics, but when my Doberman got to those dogs they dropped Red and ran for it. My dobergirl is highly territorial and she won’t hesitate in attacking a whole pack of dogs... good thing for Red the rooster.
Poor guy is missing all the skin on his back from his tail to his hackles, he did his job and saved the hens, but he’s in a bad way. Unfortunately, I am in the process of ridding pantry moths from my pantry & have thrown away all my food/baking supplies. All I had left was unopened corn starch, so we started by cleaning his wound, and then covering with corn starch. This should create a good scab, but I’ve never dealt with any wound this extensive. Any advice? He is currently in my bathtub getting heat, while we setup an emergency crate inside the large pen & repair the metal gate. The picture is post-corn starching.
The dogs started coming back, so my husband shot a 12 gage at them and they retreated back home. I get so angry because so many people out here just leave their dogs to live outside with no fencing. People dump dog dogs & cats out here and the person on the next road (our properties) meet at the back, just take them in. They have 10 to 15 dogs all the time that just roam. My poodle doesn’t leave the grass yard and the Doberman gets 50’ of chain when she is outside (she likes to chase skunks, yuck). My dogs are in my house unless they are with me.
We have skunks, raccoons, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, and I have personally seen cougars & a black panther, and the ONLY issue we have ever had with our chickens and rabbits is someone’s damned domestic dogs! Sorry for the rant, but it gets me very upset.
I kept telling him to go back to bed, but he was really upset, so I got up. We live in a rural area and we have a lot of wild animals around. The next thing I know my 12 year old daughter is out the door in her pjs and chasing dogs through the back acreage, screaming and crying, with our Doberman & poodle in hot pursuit. I yelled for her to come back, but she wouldn’t stop, she ran out about 450 yards. The gate to our 25’ x 24’ pen was wide open with the gate hinge broken completely off. :O
After counting the chickens I knew one was gone, and then I hear my daughter returning. It was freezing outside, and I didn’t even have shoes, and she had no coat. She was carrying something back from the neighbour’s house, crying with our dogs following behind. Their dogs got our big rooster named Red the Rooster. My daughter was in hysterics, but when my Doberman got to those dogs they dropped Red and ran for it. My dobergirl is highly territorial and she won’t hesitate in attacking a whole pack of dogs... good thing for Red the rooster.
Poor guy is missing all the skin on his back from his tail to his hackles, he did his job and saved the hens, but he’s in a bad way. Unfortunately, I am in the process of ridding pantry moths from my pantry & have thrown away all my food/baking supplies. All I had left was unopened corn starch, so we started by cleaning his wound, and then covering with corn starch. This should create a good scab, but I’ve never dealt with any wound this extensive. Any advice? He is currently in my bathtub getting heat, while we setup an emergency crate inside the large pen & repair the metal gate. The picture is post-corn starching.
The dogs started coming back, so my husband shot a 12 gage at them and they retreated back home. I get so angry because so many people out here just leave their dogs to live outside with no fencing. People dump dog dogs & cats out here and the person on the next road (our properties) meet at the back, just take them in. They have 10 to 15 dogs all the time that just roam. My poodle doesn’t leave the grass yard and the Doberman gets 50’ of chain when she is outside (she likes to chase skunks, yuck). My dogs are in my house unless they are with me.
We have skunks, raccoons, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, and I have personally seen cougars & a black panther, and the ONLY issue we have ever had with our chickens and rabbits is someone’s damned domestic dogs! Sorry for the rant, but it gets me very upset.
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