Just Need to VENT about a bad morning, my poor chickens.

[Chicks R Friends NOT Food]

I would just be thankful that nobody including your chickens were hurt.

And none of it was your fault those people were redicuous.

 

[vfem]

Hijacking my own thread....

Yeah, mrsgibber, Bolton is nice. I miss Manchester sometimes. I haven't been there in about 14 year though. I went to Manchester High School as a freshman before we moved. I lived right behind there.

The largest part of my family live in Danbury, Vernon and Malbrough now.

As for the issue, I am grateful no one was hurt. I had to hold my white one for quite sometime to get her heartbeat back to normal. She was hiding behind the water bucket. She's my favorite so it would have crushed me to lose her. She's the only one I have who will never go anywhere... even when she stops laying. She has her own roost spot forever.

 

[cyanne]

As for the kids fishing in your pond, I cannot believe they would talk back to you! The nerve! In my day we would have started running the second the land owner came into sight because we would have been scared of getting a butt-full of rock salt fired at us from a shot gun!

I agree that you need to fence that off and put up "No Trespassing" signs. It is sad to say, but if one of those charming brats were to fall into your pond and drown, they parents would probably end up suing you even though they are on your property without permission.

Not sure how big your property is, but if you could manage to put up a perimeter fence you could get a nice livestock guardian dog or two. That would solve the problem of strange dogs breaking in to attack your chickens AND do a pretty good job of keeping strange children away as well. Not to say that an LGD would attack them, but I don't know many kids brave enough to climb a fence when there is a 130 - 200 lb Pyr barking at them from the other side.

 

[mrsgibber]

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Well nice to meet ya!

Poor little girls had quite a scare. I'm so glad everyone made it back to the coop before the dog had a chance at em.

 

[Lunachick]

I hate those kinds of days. Tomorrow will be better. Thank goodness your critters are alright.

 

[vfem]

Oh I wish we could fence off the whole yard, but we can't. Our property line goes OVER the pond and cuts off a section that is ours then off into the woods.

The fence line would end at the top of my neighbor's hill, but my husband is pretty sure the neighbors would pitch in for the fence if we continued it across their property. They aren't too happy with the wondering dogs either. Those 'wondering dogs' are all owned by the people in the trailer park on the other side of the woods behind the pond. They just let their dogs out to wonder.

The thought of spending that money right now is making my head spin. I just dropped $3000 we have been saving awhile to buy new siding for the house. I'm hoping we don't need more then 100-200 ft of chainlink fence at this point.

Luckily, there is a HUGE 30 ft drop off to a stream behind the pond in the woods... they can't climb that and the only way to the pond at all is through our property.

Oh, and we had a no trespassing sign up, someone tore the whole metal post and sign right out of the ground a stole it. About the same time they stole everything out of the duck house I kept out there. (A pet carrier, a watering bucket and a metal feeder.)

Now I'm starting to see why no one wanted this property before we bought it.

 

[The Poultry Peanut]

In Texas that dog could have been shot and the kids could have been shot too. I think my scoutmaster said that when he was a kid he crosed a fence and got a butt full of rock salt.

 

[Schultz]

From one haver of a bad day to another

 

[vfem]

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Oh I'm up for sharing hugs!!!

 

[redhen]

sorry for your sucky day!!!