"gambling" with fate to defend my eggs' life (he/she make it!!!!)

[mulia24]

my dog break again inside my coop by breaking the chicken wire and kill one of my chicks

, i'm going to give him a terrible painful horrible punishment. he never feel how difficult for me to incubate the egg for 21 days and run for kerosene lamp when power outages happen with 3 times turning/day, and he simply kill him. i'll give him a lesson, real heavy lesson, till he won't be able wave his tail for one day.

can't tell how mad i'm when i catch all my chicks that flee from dog when he break the wire and start count, hey, 1 is missing and i see him laying on ground, die,

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well, that's good of course but don't force yourself to do too many work, share the burden with any of family member, gladly your granddaughter want to help you.

my grandma is now older than 70 years and can only sit on the bed since she was fell off from stair 2 years ago, any injury that happen to older people can make us can't do any activities anymore so i really suggest you to be aware when working since that's dangerous when deal with electric/tool machine, i myself have been *enjoyed* so many times of electric shock. glad i'm still alive.

wew, egg+cheese, delux enough

high protein will soon cure her. i hope she will be well soon and join the flock. and i'm happy today, i get 2 eggs today from 2 layer, never get it 2 together till today.

wait, i'm angry and need to teach that dog!

 

[mstricer]

wegotchickens wrote: Mulia, a bachelor pen is one with only roosters, no hens. My extra boys were being too rough on the hens, so they got penned together away from the hens. They are very skinny from pacing back and forth, trying to figure out how to get back to the girls
My pretty boy does NOT want to be in there with them! In fact, he was fighting with them all the time when the flock was all together, trying to protect the hens. Now he's very happy to be only man among all the women!
That is very bad that was my experience too, the pacing will get so bad that they will not be able to stand had to cull roo because of it. Now that I think about it, I think it might be due to the fact they were able to see the hens I dont know but its a thought if they can see the hens maybe block their view.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Mulia,

Congrats on your eggs! I know how hard you have worked with your chickens and incubating your eggs. I'm so sorry your dog is not behaving himself and killed one of your chicks. I hope he learns his lesson and you don't lose any more chicks. It's difficult enough for you to incubate your eggs without your dog adding to your problems.

Good luck!

 

[tomato lady]

Mulia, sorry to hear about your chicken. I have heard that a dog who has a taste for chicken is very hard to cure. Is there any way you can find materials to make your coop even stronger? I am lucky so far with my dogs. My bigger dog is a hearding dog my nature. Some of my chickens got out the other day and he watched them. When I tried to get them back in their coop, my dog ran over and barked to "help" me. That made the rooster get his "protective voice" and warn the girls of danger. They all ran back in the coop.

Sorry your grandmother hasn't fully recovered from her fall. I am very careful not to risk falling. I tell my family that when I fell as a young person I bounced, but now if I fell I would just break.

We are almost ready to start painting some of the new part of our house. My daughter and her husband are going to paint. I still have other work to do on the cieling over the stairs (very high)

. High places scare me so I am building a platform to stand on while I work up there. It will be very safe.

I clipped my chicken's beak yesterday. I tried to file it, but it didn't work so I got a little pair of sizzors and cut the extra growth off. She can eat better now, but she keeps making clicking sounds with her beak. I think she is getting used to it being shorter. She also can drink better now. She still won't stand on her injured leg, but she is standing up on one leg now, and I think she is putting a little weight on her bad foot. I want to put her back in the coop, but I will wait a day or two more to see if her foot improves and so she can get stronger. She misses her chicken friends, but she does like her treats. So far my cat has not discovered that chicken dinner is sitting on my computer desk.

 

[mulia24]

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thank you kelly, worse, he just killed 2 more yesterday, total 3 of my chicks were killed in action

 

[mulia24]

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well, i guess you're right barbara, he just killed 2 again yesterday, i hit him really hard, that's good and lucky for you to have dog like that, not like mine.

yes, you need to take extra precaution when dealing with height. nothing can guarantee the safety of yours if not you that do that.

how is about the chicken? i hope she is doing well now, i'm real busy recent time since many tasks and presentation need to be design and present and full examination, real tired week and bad year now. bad education here, teacher come in, write and use OHP, ask us write and go home, really useless and low grade teacher, i just confuse how did this university can hire such useless teacher.

i'm now having a at least 1 routine egg machine, well, at least i can eat 1 egg per day and if luckier, 2 eggs per day, my hen is broody again and i'm now again try to huss the broody behavior from her since none of the egg fertile

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i have build my coop well although i have no electric tool (real expensive). the only part that he can break into to my coop is the chicken wire, and unfortunately all side of the coop use chicken wire since wood is really expensive i can't use wood to the side, just for the frame i used the wood.

 

[tomato lady]

Mulia,
I am sorry to report that my little Buff Orpington chicken died.

When I first brought her in she did very well. Then, on the 3rd day she got very sick and did not live through the night. I have an idea what might have happened to her. I solved her overgrown beak by cutting the overgrowth off, but the leg injury was a mystery. Then, I was doing some work in the little coop and discovered that something (probably a rat

) had chewed 2 holes in the floor. I wonder if the rat got in and bit her leg up high where the feathers covered the wound. If a bite got infected that would explain her sudden death after doing so well. I don't know for sure, but it does sound like it could be the answer. I put rat poison down under the floor and some wood over the holes.

Sorry to hear that the quality of your college isn't better. Even here in the U.S. we sometimes get teachers that are not the best. I had one when I was in college that didn't show up for class most of the time. When students would get to the classroom there would be a note on the door saying "class cancelled for today". That was the only class I had on Thursday so I would make a trip to the college for nothing.

I was building a wall in my big coop. It was so frustrating because I had way too much chicken help. Here is a picture of my hens "helping".

I laughed at them until I discovered they were leaving chicken poop all over my wood.

 

[mulia24]

holy cricket, that's really many chickens you have. they must be a real *help* when you renovating your coop.

i guess you'll never lack of egg for years to eat.

i'm sorry to heard about the BO,

. rat also a real problem, well my dog is one of them.

i can't afford a loss of 3 chickens in 3 days, that's real a big number ( i only own 8 total,now 5), i will post the pics show you how i use a barricade to prevent him to access to the chicken and he still can break them all

and my neighbor that didn't know what he did to my flock will think i'm a crazy people who love to torture dog when heard my dog screaming due to be hit by me.

i can't resist the temptation to hit him, when i got home at about 11 PM, i found him walking around my coop (again), no mercy, the wood waving and there's a scream from a dog.

and what the wall purpose for the coop?

one thing i don't understand, why almost all chickens in BYC i saw always fat and looks *solid*? when mine aren't.

 

[Junkmanme]

Mulia24

One of the MAIN reasons that the chickens "pictured" on BYC appear "fatter" that the ones that you have is the "breed" of chicken. Part of that is the feathering.........but they also ARE a "fatter"-type bird than the ones that are common in your "neck of the woods".

A lot of the chickens in THIS Country that are related to the chickens in YOUR area tend to be taller, skinnier, tighter-feathered, etc. I think that a lot of it is the Genetics and Breeding.

I have a couple of "American Game" hens that are somewhat "scrawny" looking compared to my other hens. They are part "Asil" and some other breeds from S.E. Asia which were primarily bred for "fighting" rather than egg-laying or butchering for meat.

just my opinion (guess),

-Junkmanme-

 

[lngrid]

Hello, Mulia.

I just found out about your hatches and I read every post tonight. I really like your story and what it shows about you. I like how you are such a good chicken dad and work so hard for your flock.

I am very sorry about all your difficulties, but you are such a strong, determined person, it shines like a light. And you are a chicken addict! Can a person be anything nicer? I think anyone here would say "No!"

It's against the law for people to keep chickens in their yards where I live so I only know what I've learned by reading about them, but I think your chickens look skinny because the original "grandfather" of the chicken looked like that and also the very old breeds of chickens were like that.

DNA tests are making scientists think that the Red Jungle Fowl that lives in western India is the ancestor of our chickens. Most of the ones left in India today have accidentally bred with chickens and look more chicken-like than they used to, but here's a pic of one that LOOKS the way writers used to DESCRIBE Red Jungle Fowl:

There are many breeds of chickens called "game" fowl. In English, "game" is something you do for fun with your friends, but "game" is also the name for the kinds of animals that are hunted for food or for fun, so "game fowl" use the second definition. I found pics of game fowl breeds from all over the world and they have the same athletic build as your birds!

From left to right these are Japanese, English, Australian and Maylay game fowl.

Game fowl are described as being "hard feathered" but the chicken breeds that most of us grow in the U. S. are called "soft feathered." So I am wondering if these birds aren't mostly feathers and fluff. Perhaps all the feathers and fluff help them survive in cold climates. I know chicken farmers where I live have to be very careful because our summer weather kills the birds. They start to die when the temp gets to 32 degrees Celsius. So, maybe your village birds and arabic birds are the strong kind that have a thin cloak of feathers so they survive the heat.

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with your birds. I cried a little and laughed a LOT while I was reading your story. You and so many of the people posting to this thread have such a wonderful sense of humor! I am looking forward to when you have time to post again.

Your new chicken friend (I want chickens!)
Ingrid