Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

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Samsung S21 Ultra

<sigh>

Yaaaaaa I need a couple of those silver laced ones like Lucky
(Can’t find her photo)

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh found her photos here on this link

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27584077

 

[ChicoryBlue]

Except…we have a farm dog who isn’t leashed. Who sometimes strays, but usually just to run to the neighbors and hang with their dog. Sometimes to chase coyotes. So there’s that. Don’t exactly want to draw attention to our dog if we can help it. I’m hoping my rant to this lady yesterday made her wise up. But if she comes back I want to report it. Because if she does come back, I know she just does NOT care. She did switch to leashes after the first deaths (she was walking two huskies in farmland, by farms, with one being an untrained young rescue who was not under voice control), but there was an event before that where the dog got a chicken but did not kill it and it recovered. She “apologized” but continued to walk her dogs. After the deaths she disappeared for awhile but eventually returned using leashes.

There are so many places she could go, including dog parks.

I’m just not set yet on reporting. I appreciate the pov and suggestion though.

Yes, it’s up to you, do what you’re comfortable doing. Here a “problem dog” is defined as a dog that’s a problem. It’s not loose dogs on your own property, which is legal here, it’s when it’s loose on the road, chasing cars or bicyclists, or on someone else’s property being a problem. Yes, you can’t be sure what your dog will do on someone else’s property and that’s a concern.

Just getting reported by the farmer isn’t a big deal; the dog officer likely would clearly understand where that’s coming from and they want the neighborhood to get along. You might get a reminder by the officer, that’s all. But would the farmer or the lady shoot your dog in a pique? Possibly he’s or she’s a nutcase? I don’t see them having a real beef with you on this otherwise. There usually isn’t any fine issued for first warnings, and it’s your chickens that got killed here.

I hope to give you courage from empathy too: This lady takes these dogs in her car and drives them specifically to your area, and she has three times endangered or killed livestock / pets. She’s endangered those dogs each time, as you and anyone could shoot them, which you all are now prepared and have a right to do. You would actually be doing the dogs a favor to get somebody else on the case who for sure WILL make an impression on this dog walker.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Another First

Niamh walked right into the house with me today.

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She must have been scoping out a new roosting spot since you occupied their chosen chair.

 

[knoturavggrl]

So we lost a Barnevelder pullet and our disabled Ameraucana cockerel (bum leg, poor mobility) to a dog attack yesterday. I was so spitting mad at that lady (yes, same one, same dog) that I may have berated her using very foul language. I may have asked her if she was [expletive] stoopid. I may have said that I couldn’t for the life of me understand why she was so inconsiderate that she would continue to drive out to someone’s property to walk a dog she had no control over when she knew good and well her dog had killed chickens in the past. I told her to please for the love of all things decent DO NOT COME BACK! I made my boyfriend text the farmer across the street to tell his “friend” that next time she’d be burying her dog.

She had him on a leash but “he got away from” her. Then he’s not exactly leashed, is he? What good is it if you can’t control two dogs on leashes if they are pulling hard? You stoopid [expletive]. Walk them someplace else!!!

//rant

I am sorry and . I hope she does not return too!

 

[knoturavggrl]

When I wash my sweet little dears, cute behinds...I finish with a blow out... they think they've been to the spa...lol

It never ceases to amaze me how completely unbothered they are about hairdryers. Glad she a great spa day.

 

[drstratton]

I made the mistake of offering meal worms in my hand - those beaks are sharp!!!

Yes they are! The problem for me is, the little raptors get my fingers when there's nothing in them.

 

[drstratton]

I love hand feeding birds.
especially geese cuz theyre so big
emden geese are one of my favorite birds

We had one and they are very beautiful!

 

[Ponypoor]

40 adults, 5 young ladies, just put in the pen with the adults, andsomething between 40 and 50 babies, 20 bought at RK, rest hatched.
Just lost 34 babies to a single coon.
Hes dead now, but so are 34 innocent chickies
all those 34 came from the same Rural King as the others

Electric fence is your friend for such predators. Had a coworker who lost a few light Brahmas to a fox, she put up a couple strands of electric and problem solved. Kept her birds in also, I might have to do this I have some escape artists that like to roam.

But to keep coons and possums aeay
A few strands of this with some of those electric fence posts will work like a charm.

 

[drstratton]

No

They don’t seem to mind the sound either.

She was really enjoying it. She'd been sick and was loving all of the attention!