Just had a huge scare!

[latb611]

My dog has been super curious about the chicks but I am afraid of her trying to eat them. She has tried to get my neighbors chickens before. Well today when I got home I found that she had gotten out was at the cage had knocked over and broken the heat lamp and almost caught a chair on fire. I had to rush to the store to get another lamp. Thank god my new babies are ok. Needless to say my dog is going outside.

 

[rooster buyer]

My dog always barks at them in the coop but when i let them out they usally ride around on her back lol.

 

[SusanPC]

Good thing you caught the heat lamp before a fire started. Every year I hear of house fires from heat lamps. It scares me as I have my heat lamp hanging in my house all day while I'm at work. I came home from work to a different scare the other day. I have been using the standard small plastic waterer with plastic water bottle. I hadn't been filling it completely up because I'm changing so often and had it set up on a board. When I came home the water dish had been knocked over and emptied into the bedding. Luckily the bedding around the waterer soaked up the water, and it must have happened a short while before I came home, because when I immediately filled and put back in, they weren't interested in drinking. Luckily, I had been home for lunch and checked on everything too. Now I use heavy glass bottles on the water and feed dish to weight them down. They have been running and "flying" from end to end of the brooder, so I am assuming that is how the bottle got knocked over. I've even had a chick get stuck between the wall of the brooder and the water dish. As a newbie, I am learning a lot and how easily things can happen.