"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Jipus5]

Just went outside. I had zip tied really heavy the new ferret cage to the small steel chick cage.
Bucky, our 7 month old German Shepherd/Blue Heeler mix dog, had eaten the zipties off then broken the doors on the cages and all my babies, even the ones I bought are dead, eaten, just gone.
I caught him up to his shoulders still in the baby cage gnawing on the last one... I am just over whelmed. My whole stock of babies for the year... eaten.
Sad thing was, I was outside 45 minutes ago. Closed up the coop and all was fine. Foxes attacked a few days ago and they couldn't get in at the babies so i was thinking GREAT!!
... but my dog did.
Such an awful night.

 

[topdog24]

I love the mountains too if ya'll go to ark. mts. take a visit to war eagle mill. Its beatuiful up their. Pam

We like to ride the back roads and find the antique and flea markets, it is a whole different culture in the mountains where ever they may be.

 

[Ron Skekel]

We like to ride the back roads and find the antique and flea markets, it is a whole different culture in the mountains where ever they may be.

Thats why I love them. Rogers has a ton of mom and pop antique shops. look up war eagle mill its an antique itself. Have a Great time. Pam PS you could also go diamond mining. we mined in NC in the Mt.s I have alot of nice stones.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Just went outside.  I had zip tied really heavy the new ferret cage to the small steel chick cage.
Bucky, our 7 month old German Shepherd/Blue Heeler mix dog,  had eaten the zipties off then broken the doors on the cages and all my babies, even the ones I bought are dead, eaten, just gone.
 I caught him up to his shoulders still in the baby cage gnawing on the last one...  I am just over whelmed.  My whole stock of babies for the year... eaten.
Sad thing was, I was outside 45 minutes ago.  Closed up the coop and all was fine.  Foxes attacked a few days ago and they couldn't get in at the babies so i was thinking GREAT!!
... but my dog did.
Such an awful night.

You might have to move him where he can't reach the chicks. From what you've told me his prey drive is way to high to ever be a livestock protector. Sorry But sometimes when prey drive is high no amount of training will do. I could be wrong you have had alot going on .you haven't been able to be consistant with everthing going on with your family. I would move him out of reach. Pam

 

[Jipus5]

SAW THIS ON FACEBOOK ON THE LOUISIANA BARNYARD AUCTION PAGE:




Glen Hornsby
June 30 at 8:31pm · Lake Charles, LA
15-1yr. old Indian River hens , 6 -1yr. old Cinnamon Queens Hens, 25-5 month old Cuckoo Mar-ans Pullets, hens and pullets $15.00ea and 3 Delaware Roosters 5 month old $8.00 ea. Glen 337-936-9019
— at Lake Charles La. I-10.

 

[Ron Skekel]

Thats good prices but Ron might stroke out if I bring home more chickens anytime soon .lol

 

[Jipus5]

You might have to move him where he can't reach the chicks. From what you've told me his prey drive is way to high to ever be a livestock protector. Sorry But sometimes when prey drive is high no amount of training will do. I could be wrong you have had alot going on .you haven't been able to be consistant with everthing going on with your family. I would move him out of reach. Pam

My "ways" of training the chicks by using the dog kennels seems to work so well. Foxes couldnt get to them, each night back to the coop which taught them to return there. ALL DAY LONG nothing... then at night there he goes. Then it is not every night??? I dont have another place to put them besides in the cages... if i leave them in the coop then the hens can't lay for me because they cant get in... Wish so badly Junior had not run off... teaches me to have all males fixed tho that is for sure.

 

[Jipus5]

Thats good prices but Ron might stroke out if I bring home more chickens anytime soon .lol

I do recommend that our LOuisiana neighbors jump on that page though if they are ever looking for something we here dont have. Seems a LOT of breeds come up for sale at times. Hopefully all of them are honorable, but surely we all know if they wont let ya come over and SEE for ourselves, ya may not need to buy form them...? I am a show up and approve before purchase kind of girl... my friends on here, you guys, are the only exception to that rule. ONLY.

 

[Jipus5]

You might have to move him where he can't reach the chicks. From what you've told me his prey drive is way to high to ever be a livestock protector. Sorry But sometimes when prey drive is high no amount of training will do. I could be wrong you have had alot going on .you haven't been able to be consistant with everthing going on with your family. I would move him out of reach. Pam

Oh, and I forgot to mention... there was no moiving him because he has ben 'free ranging; himself for a while now. Slept on the backporch fine. The run wasnt working because that fox attack I mentioned? It happened on the opposite side of the yard his run was on, guess they figured out he couldn't get to them.
THEN he ate every single collar we bought for him... literally waged his neck back and forth over a sheet of tin until the last one ripped off! So smart maybe, yet not so... He even got out of the choke collar...

 

[Angelicisi]

oh Nooooo sorry to here. It may have very well been the heat.
I wasn't a strong believer (it hadn't happened to me yet) in chickens and heat issues. Shoot...Texas plains and death valley in cali people free ranged chickens, they can DO heat! But then I realized that was multiple generations raised and hatched in those heats. Most chickens here with some exceptions are ordered from hatcheries up north...or only hatched in cooler seasons and we haven't yet bred multiple generations of them in the heat yet.

Heat index here was 105 yesterday, I almost lost my ameraucana again, limp, rolling eyes, panting. Again we cooled her but it was only by chance we even were here to see her. She's not doing well AT ALL in the heat and she's got the smallest eggs to produce, lightest color feathers and overall built better for the heat than my RIRs who do great in any temp.

I found an 18 week pullet dead today. :/ I don't know what happened. I did notice her yesterday sitting in the corner of the run, but it was a shady spot so I thought she was just cooling off. I found her today stretched out stiff in the same spot. The rest of my birds look perfectly fine. Do you guys think it was the heat? Their run is completely shaded except for early in the morning, and they have plenty of room and fresh water. I do have turkeys adjacent to them, but I dearly hope that wasn't the cause