Helpful hints for building coops

[jvls1942]

One of the stores in town has celery for 29 cents.
it got up to 23F today. our back porch is now a
walk in cooler. we just have to watch so the pop
and water don't freeze.

 

[3KillerBs]

One of the stores in town has celery for 29 cents.
it got up to 23F today. our back porch is now a
walk in cooler. we just have to watch so the pop
and water don't freeze.

Wow! I'd stock up big on celery at that price.

My DH eats it like potato chips.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Went to ceramics class last night. None next week, due to Thanksgiving. But i can work on stuff at home.
Back to building, i need to make a small shelter for Mel, the male goat. He escaped from the capture area near the goat house by ramming the goat panel door. Sigh.
I had built the frame for a 4'x8' shelter some time ago, but quit working on it when i just didn't have the energy. Instead, i put him in the goat house, and the girls in the stalls of the barn. But he needs to be put somewhere they have no fence lines that are next to each other, because last time he bred them through the fence.
The shelter frame is not near any other fence lines. I am making his corral of cattle panels. Which should work well as long as i use enough t posts. The frame already has one end closed in. Today i measured and cut plywood for the side facing away from the corral. Hopefully tomorrow i can get it painted and put up.
I am going to a Christmas event in Rocky Mount tomorrow, my neighbor is driving. So between that and the cold and my sore back, not much work going on. But at least i have started.

 

[3KillerBs]

I'm angry.

I've got a lost hunting dog chained to my trailer. He's a good-natured, unneutered male with one of those tracking collars on. We tried to chase him off and he just rolled over to have his belly rubbed.

It's so tremendously IRRESPONSIBLE to let dogs run this way. If he hadn't been so friendly that we were easily able to get a chain onto his collar he could have ended up shot for ripping up Camp Cockerel and killing my birds.

In this county Animal Control only works weekday so we're stuck with him until Monday morning.

 

[CapricornFarm]

When we lived in TN, there was a pack of 3 dogs that kept coming to our farm and killing livestock. A husky, a german shepherd, and a put bull. After a year of trying to figure out whose they were i finally found the lady down the road that owned them. Animal control wouldn't even call us back. The lady refused to tie them or fence them in. It was very frustrating.

 

[Molpet]

I'm angry.

I've got a lost hunting dog chained to my trailer. He's a good-natured, unneutered male with one of those tracking collars on. We tried to chase him off and he just rolled over to have his belly rubbed.

It's so tremendously IRRESPONSIBLE to let dogs run this way. If he hadn't been so friendly that we were easily able to get a chain onto his collar he could have ended up shot for ripping up Camp Cockerel and killing my birds.

In this county Animal Control only works weekday so we're stuck with him until Monday morning.

Might think about taking him next county animal control. Otherwise if the owners get him back they may turn him loose again.

 

[3KillerBs]

Might think about taking him next county animal control. Otherwise if the owners get him back they may turn him loose again.

He's so friendly and nice that I think he must be well-treated by his owners.

We were trying to drive him away and he just rolled on his back begging to play. Then we just walked up to him and chained him. He started to cry every time we walked away.

We borrowed a dog house so he's safe and well with plenty of pine straw and warm blankets.

I also put his photo up on Facebook.

 

[jvls1942]

If he is a hunting dog, the people might have been
hunting with him. those dogs often get separated
from the hunters. I had beagles, it happens.
Is it a tracking collar ? or a shocking collar ?
if it is a shocking collar, there should be two poles on
the inside of the collar pointing toward the dog's skin.
isn't there a dog tag on his collar ? our dog tags
have our name and address on them.
maybe if you take him hunting, he will run away
from you.
It is deer hunting season here starting today.
a loose dog like that in the woods would get shot.

 

[aart]

He's so friendly and nice that I think he must be well-treated by his owners.

We were trying to drive him away and he just rolled on his back begging to play. Then we just walked up to him and chained him. He started to cry every time we walked away.

We borrowed a dog house so he's safe and well with plenty of pine straw and warm blankets.

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I also put his photo up on Facebook.

Not seeing a dog here?

 

[3KillerBs]

Dog is fine this morning and has been fed. It's going to be even colder tonight so I'll rake up more pinestraw for him.

He has no ID on his collar.

Not seeing a dog here?

Oops, I meat to upload 2 photos, not just the house with him inside.