Granny's gone and done it again

[Wishing4Wings]

Do you know if Pi would actually hurt the chickens? He may be good with them.

He has gotten out when the old girls have been out in the yard. He loves to run through them and make them scatter. I let him stay once he singled one out to chase, too much like hunting, so not trustworthy yet.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Is that a pink egg? They all look really good and healthy! Pi is a stinker huh?

Rather than pink, we call it putty. Looks the same color as Silly Putty. Remember Silly Putty?

 

[troyer]

Picture is from a little over a month ago. Bowser is learning to be close to the chickens without chasing them. He is such a good pup though, he seems pretty easy to train.

 

[troyer]

Here he is with the goats, he was perfectly content to be close to them. They are not 100% sure he is to be trusted, it's getting better as they spend more time together. He is completely harmless to the little one.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

You did ask for pictures...


Here are the old girls... all except Peach. She has arthritis and takes her time getting out of the coop.

Peach from a few weeks ago

Pi with his pinecone at the salad bar.

 

[miss heny]

Here he is with the goats, he was perfectly content to be close to them. They are not 100% sure he is to be trusted, it's getting better as they spend more time together. He is completely harmless to the little one.View attachment 3405106

Unless the goats are genetically inclined to be anti dog most chill with them once use to them.

I have to say this as my old doe hated dogs so badly it took being four gens remove for that hatred to be gone

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Here he is with the goats, he was perfectly content to be close to them. They are not 100% sure he is to be trusted, it's getting better as they spend more time together. He is completely harmless to the little one.View attachment 3405106

Good dog! Pi would organize goat racing and have fence climbing competitions! It's in his genes.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

He has gotten out when the old girls have been out in the yard. He loves to run through them and make them scatter. I let him stay once he singled one out to chase, too much like hunting, so not trustworthy yet.

thats too bad.
My chair is here.

 

[microchick]

Hi everyone and Happy Valentine's Day!

Been busy spring cleaning and working outside the last few days as the weather has been spectacular for mid Feb here.

Had to chuckle at the dogs with chickens pics. I wish I had a picture of Buck yesterday. He's half Border Collie and half some sort of hound. Just a sweet boy and my buddy. He lives to be with me when I take care of the chickens and has slowly learned for the most part to leave them alone.

He watches over the bachelors when they free range and yesterday I let them out of the run for awhile as it was almost 60° outside. I went out to feed and water and yep, Bucko was with me and took his usual guard position up at the corner of the run where he could watch the gate and door for what he considers to be escapes and threats.

Two of the roosters were out scratching around and he decided that one needed to be singled out. Like a border collie, he would crouch run a few steps, get the rooster to turn one way and if the rooster turned the other way he would repeat and try to get him to go back where HE wanted him to be. Poor Strutter after about two or three times of going through that, stood and just started screaming at Buck who was about 2 feet away from him and in his BC crouch. All I had to say to Buck was Leave It and he didn't move, allowing Strutter to put some space between himself and that pesky dog.

Buck is great with the chickens but can get a little overzealous at times and pin one to the ground under his leg. He's never killed a bird or hurt one although one or two have lost a few feathers so I never trust him unsupervised with them.

He and his sister who is half Border Collie and half Jack Russell are ten years old today. They just started acting half way intelligent last year and you can literally talk to them and they will understand simple word commands like House, Hunt (what we call hikes in the woods) and for Buck all I have to say is Chickie Birds and he is at the door and the moment he is outside he heads for the run to stand guard while I take care of him.

I asked one of the young cattle dogs yesterday if he was going to become my chicken herding buddy when Buck was no longer with us. I got a big sloppy kiss like he was saying, 'don't count on it mom'.

Somehow I admired his honesty.

@CapricornFarm, how good at you at identifying rocks. I found one down at the creek last summer that I think is a huge piece of lace granite but I'm not sure. I think I might have to cut into it to find out but I've looked at picture after picture and Lace Granite is the closest thing I can find to discribe it.

I'll get a picture of it and post it asap. Got to go out and kneed bread dough at the moment and make hamburger buns.

 

[microchick]

Okay, @CapricornFarm, got the pictures of the rock.

The thing is about as big as a small cantaloupe. It was a real joy to carry uphill back to the house in my treasure bag with the other rocks I found.

I tried to get a close up picture of the quartz lacing in it in the upper photo. Like I said, the closest thing I can find to matching it is lace quartz but then I'm no expert, just a happy rock hunter.