Granny's gone and done it again

[campingshaws]

She is loose with them in your backyard? When a chicken runs it sets off a prey drive in the dog. They really can’t help it. Some can be trained not to but some will never be broken. I always do a temperament test and keep the the low prey drive dogs if possible. What about a crate?

No chickens in the back yard. Either the hen came under the fence, or Josie went under and got her and came back. She has a crate but she’s been in too much because we’ve been busy. Since we were home I was trying to leave her out. I didn’t trust DH to watch her well enough to stop an inside accident because it’s openening day of baseball. We had just finished a little training session and it had gone really well.

I know it happens, I just don’t really have any chickens to spare right now. This puts me down to 10 hens total, and 3 roosters. Then two brooders of littles, but I can’t count them yet.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

it usually stays at 30

and you have your vents opened ? 30 is normally good

 

[h2oratt]

What type of meeting

Meeting of the minds. To see if they need more shelves. Lol

 

[h2oratt]

No chickens in the back yard. Either the hen came under the fence, or Josie went under and got her and came back. She has a crate but she’s been in too much because we’ve been busy. Since we were home I was trying to leave her out. I didn’t trust DH to watch her well enough to stop an inside accident because it’s openening day of baseball. We had just finished a little training session and it had gone really well.

I know it happens, I just don’t really have any chickens to spare right now. This puts me down to 10 hens total, and 3 roosters. Then two brooders of littles, but I can’t count them yet.

Oh well then it was just an accident. That is how I loose my chickens.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Im so sorry Camping, I wonder if training her to round them up might be a bad idea and rather train her to ignore them completely .

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Meeting of the minds. To see if they need more shelves. Lol

hahahaaaa I am shelf poor this am

 

[h2oratt]

and you have your vents opened ? 30 is normally good

No vents in this mini fridge bator. Just a fan and no way to turn it off.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

No vents in this mini fridge bator. Just a fan and no way to turn it off.

you have to have vents, air holes fresh air for them to breath. Drill some.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

time to put Bandit to bed and lock the other up. BB

 

[campingshaws]

Im so sorry Camping, I wonder if training her to round them up might be a bad idea and rather train her to ignore them completely .

She doesn’t act like that when I’m out there. She’s either with me or under the picnic table. If the birds get close to me she’ll run them off, but she stops when they go around the corner or when I call her back. We haven’t worked on herding yet because strong recall is the first step, and I’m doing training classes for that but the April classes haven’t been posted yet.

I have to repair a waterer and then I can just lock them up for now, until the pasture is seeded. So they’ll be safe for awhile.