Managing chickens.smells,flies etc help

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Maybe you and piggy-puppy can start walking. It's a great stress reducer!

we do walk but he darn near pulls me arm out of the socket. he maybe "fat" but this dog has a lot of strength Thinking of having my husband who is a wood worker make a cart specially for him so he can pull it around while we go for walks plus side my DD can ride in it while he is doing that.. we have been debating if he really is a pure chocolate lab or maybe a mastiff x lab vet commented that his teeth were big for a lab and I was like really.

 

[aart]

we do walk but he darn near pulls me arm out of the socket. he maybe "fat" but this dog has a lot of strength Thinking of having my husband who is a wood worker make a cart specially for him so he can pull it around while we go for walks plus side my DD can ride in it while he is doing that.. we have been debating if he really is a pure chocolate lab or maybe a mastiff x lab vet commented that his teeth were big for a lab and I was like really.

Dog(owner) training sounds in order.

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Dog(owner) training sounds in order.

oh how so?

 

[New2Chicks97]

They do sell anti pull harnesses that you can buy for walking dogs that like to try to pull you away.

https://www.chewy.com/sporn-non-pull-mesh-dog-harness-black/dp/131816

You might look into getting something like that.

 

[aart]

oh how so?

Obedience training for dog also focuses on owner 'training'.
A big strong dog needs to be obedient and 'controllable' by owner.

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Obedience training for dog also focuses on owner 'training'.
A big strong dog needs to be obedient and 'controllable' by owner.

He is controllable and obedient for about 99% of the time now but for that odd 1% if madness took him he could easily hurt my arm I mean he is a big idiot he thinks he is a cat and does not know his own strength few weeks ago he tried rubbing up against my legs like our cats do but he is so big he just kinda throws his whole weight into it and I ended up with achy knees and legs.

 

[bobbi-j]

We've been super wet here in South Carolina, USA also. I will tell you what I do if you promise not to laugh because some may say it's a wives' tale but so far it has worked for us. Our chicken run is 14 x 16 feet, covered, with the coop inside. We use deep litter method and we have taken a clear gallon storage baggie, put water in it about 1/4 of the way and dropped half a dozen pennies in. We have one at each end of the run and so far very little if any flies! (we clip it to the hardware cloth)

We have friends that run a concession stand one weekend a year for a local event. They put water and food coloring in baggies and hang over the windows and doors of the stand. As long as the sun is shining, they work great!

This same crazy lady went after the girl that moved to the house next to hers (there is my house a middle house this newer girls house and then crazy ladies place) she treated her like garbage to specially when the girl asked crazy lady not to block her drive way any more I originally the new girl was just being catty (crazy lady has a mini car I want to burn it) but I'm pretty sure now crazy lady blew it out of proportion and acted a fool towards the new girl. I mean it's so annoying she was more then fine with us and our chickens and had no issue with getting free eggs any time she needed/wanted them. now she is just a total nut job she makes me sick how can you act nice and say nothing is wrong then go nut job like she did GRRRR. and thanks for the old wives tip will see about trying it out if it could help my not right? I kinda want to put horse poo near her house and let her see what having flies really bad is like. It's summer your bound to get flies. Even if I had no chickens she stikes me as someone who would most likely then blame it on my fricken dog!

I am wondering if she has some type of mental illness besides the alcoholism.

My mother is a recovering drug user and both have similar out bursts and it sucked growing up with her well that when she was around and I normally avoided her. That is most likely why subconsciously I don't wish to live near her and why I freeze every winter in the UK. Still tho I feel she needs help even her son agrees so I'm giving him as much support as I can for him and his family.

The out burst has shaken me and left me stressed but at least I know why she flipped but still it does leave me on edge of another out burst.. I did tell him I will ignore her but if it moves on to being psychically threatening I will have to report it. He said he understood and he was ok with that and fully understood. But we are both worried about her out bursts to big rig (lorry) drivers and just other people that don't know her in general.

my other neighbors who the chicken broke into their yard they said they over heard and asked what happen they said she was bang out of order they had no issue with the chickens or the flies said it's been a bad year for them anyway and they have never seen her windows open.either. they also don't mind the rooster as normally he only crows a few times then shuts up unless the dog is there or he sees a cat says he is really good with all the younger chicks.

I wonder if the son is secretly wishing you would report her. It would be out of his hands that way.

I agree with documenting every single time this woman comes to you house or harasses you over the fence. I hope it all works out for you and that she can get the help she obviously needs.

 

[MROO]

Funny story about nasty neighbors here. We had a real winner next door, too. Her pet peeve (pun intended) was to blame every pile of poo in her yard on my dog. Well. my Mom finally fixed her ... by raiding my crayon box! She ground up a bunch of yellow crayons and mixed them into the dog's food for a week or two.

The best part about it was that I got to watch it all unfold. When my mother told her friend across the street what she'd done, she and her daughter came over early every day for a week, in hopes of having entertainment over their morning coffee. They weren't disappointed!

The next time Neighbor-Lady called Mom out to "pick after your (expletive deleted) dog!" my mother calmly walked next door to inspect the offending evidence. They wandered the yard for some time, while Neighbor-Lady pointed out each and every pile. There were well over a dozen. Later, we all chuckled over the thought of Neighbor-Lady out there in the wee hours of sunlight, in her slippers and housecoat, mapping the locations as she planned her attack.

As the trek and head-shaking denials of "That's not from my dog," continued, Neighbor-Lady got madder and madder, eventually losing her cool and screaming "Of course it's yours! It's dog ($#!^) and it's from YOUR dog!" Mom calmly pointed out to Neighbor-Lady that it couldn't be from our dog, because the piles weren't yellow. They weren't even flecked with yellow.

The mix of anger, confusion and shut-down on Neighbor-Lady's face was priceless. She had no idea where my mother was coming from on that one, until Mom explained about the crayons.

You could almost watch the steam rising! Neighbor-Lady was SO mad that she just stood there in shock, speechless for a couple of looooong minutes. Then she turned and stormed back into her house. We didn't see her again for two days Afterwards, we'd see her every few days with a pooper scooper, angrily gathering piles and staring daggers at the back of our house, but she never said a word about our dog again. As a matter of fact, I don't think she said a word AT ALL for a few weeks, at least not to us. Blessed peace!

 

[Wil781]

That lady sounds like a really bitter pill. Maybe her fly problem is from her property. Maybe the crazy woman has a stash of corpses buried in her yard.

 

[aart]

Funny story about nasty neighbors here. We had a real winner next door, too. Her pet peeve (pun intended) was to blame every pile of poo in her yard on my dog. Well. my Mom finally fixed her ... by raiding my crayon box! She ground up a bunch of yellow crayons and mixed them into the dog's food for a week or two.

My folks had the same issue, solved the same way but with green food coloring.
Our dog was pooping in their yard, but my brother only had to pick up the green ones.
I assume you found yellow flecked poops in your yard?