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[Mojo Chick'n]

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My mailman comes up to the house and honks his horn if he has a package that doesn't fit the mailbox. If we're not home, he'll put it on the porch or on the tractor seat and leave a note in the mailbox.

Maybe your mailman won't do that because of the driveway or he thinks he can't get through the gate. Either way, if he cannot leave it properly he ought to leave a card for you to come and get it at the post office - that is standard procedure - that is why they have the dang cards.

It would be different if you had asked him to hang packages off the mailbox in a bag - but you didn't. It was up to him to do his job properly, and leave the card and take the package back with him to the PO.

meri

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

Here's a Q for ya all ----

I'm getting a pair of goslings in the spring, tolouse, and plan to free range them for the most part.

Now, after the guinea debacle, I am wondering if I'll have problems with the geese not caring for/bothering the chickens who also free range.

Would I solve any future problems by putting the goslings with or near the chickens while they are growing up? Would it not matter? (the guineas were raised in the same pen as the chickens that they chose to attack - but guineas are the stupidest creatures with feathers that I've ever met).

does anyone have both geese (or larger sized ducks) and chickens and do you have that problem?

I know Shelley has both species (well, ducks, not geese yet) but her ducks stay at the pond, and not in the barnyard - these geese would be in the barnyard with the chickens.

eta - as a kid we had both, but the chickens did not free range with the ducks and geese.

thanks -
meri

 

[Bluedog420]

I still have the jap's and sea bright's left..gonna give my BYC homey's first shot at em...briarpatch said he MAY take the sea bright's...Happy New Year to Y'all

have a nice Delaware roo also

 

[shelleyd2008]

Yeah, I'm not any help with the goose problem. My friend May has ducks (calls and regulars), geese (all different kinds), chickens (standard and bantam), and guineas that all seem to keep to themselves. The only time they 'mingle' is when they are eating, and then the geese are the biggest boogers, but they don't bother them much. She only 'feeds' them in the evenings, when she puts them back in their cages. Then each is with its own kind, and the only fighting is amongst themselves. That might be what you'll need to do. I'll probably need a seperate feeding area for the geese once they get bigger, but maybe not. We'll see.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

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how old is the Delaware roo? and how much did you want for him?

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Probably! I know she wanted to get rid of all of them. She had a very pretty self blue dutch rooster, but she didn't have any hens to go with. I would have taken them if there were hens, the only dutch I have is one black hen (that I think Cindy is taking) and one blue splash hen.

 

[briarpatchfarms]

yeah im getting her
sultans
white cochins
dutch rooster
self blue old english hens
her quail danver trio
maybe two gineas
4 pheonix hens
and i havent seen if she has any thing else im talking to her tomarrow to see what else she has

 

[shelleyd2008]

Oh, and Meri, the mailman did bring the package to the house today. He asked what I wanted to do with future packages. I told him I had asked before if they would hold them at the P.O. and call me to come get them. They said yeah sure, and stuck a note in my box. It was a Saturday, and they were eggs. So the eggs got to wait another 2 days before they were set.

And the gate is hardly ever closed, you've just been lucky when you come over! Their excuse is that the house sits more than 1/2 mile off the road. How far is my house from the road? I'm no expert, but I don't think 900 feet=1/2 mile!! Anyway, I told him about holding them and calling, and he said 'Oh yeah, sure, I can do that. I or my wife will call ourselves'. How hard was that?

They are supposed to bring them to the house. Even if they did and no one was here, they could then leave a note and take them back. I wouldn't want them to get out with Princess here, she might bite if no one was home, but at least make the effort! If it were him, I'm sure he would not want eggs that he had paid $12+ for to sit on the mailbox post!

I didn't get my silkie eggs today, so I hopefully will be getting a call on Friday morning to come and get them. My luck he will forget and they'll get to bounce around in his truck all day. Or it will be the 'sub' driver, and he has a small pickup. The packages get to ride in the back of the truck when he's driving!

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

My driveway is slightly less than 1100 feet - about a 1/4 mile, I believe. Your place is NOT a half mile back, if anything it is about the same as mine.

Maybe he doesn't want to tackle the "riverbed" or whatever that piece is (it isn't that bad) or he is afraid to drive between the fencerow (is he a drinker? can't keep the truck straight?

)

Your driveway looks daunting, but it really isn't that bad, and ya got plenty of room to turn around and drive out - no backing out.

Your mailman must just be lazy. Maybe your delivery time is near to his lunch break....

meri

 

[shelleyd2008]

Yeah, I wish it were that easy! It must be that we are one of the last ones on his route. He never gets here before 2 pm, and that is very rarely. Usually it is around the same time as the school bus (3:15) sometimes later. He is about worthless. I don't know why they keep him there. He has been getting complaints about him for years! Before I moved to FL (5 years ago), my brother's wife had said there was a time that she had put something in the box to go out, 3 days later she took it to the post office herself!! There road is even less traveled than this one is (think I 'showed' you theirs? It comes off our road?) and he wouldn't even go down there unless he had a delivery to make. It got so bad that my brother's neighbor got a P.O. box so they would be sure to get their mail on time! He is just plain lazy, that's all it is.