Morning all.
The rescue duck is doing well, afraid of me- but I dont believe it is a Pekin. Seems to be some call duck cross.
My duckling babies are growing and big and messy and I love them.
I worked so hard on repairing the flower bed fencing and preparing them for seed and put up trellises and had a very productive last weekend. The neighbor dog seems obsessed with my chickens and seems to be his main cause for barking, so I took six chickens to my brother in laws, including the jersey giants and I have a group of six babies still too small to go anywhere else- two polish, three phoenix, a silkie..I looked at the Phoenix and said, what a handsome little roo this is- "i think I will try to keep it for awhile, its crow cant be that bad, its too small." I have the turken and her eight bantie babies and Carmen, my original chicken
Yesterday, one of my three dogs got into my flowerbed (planted along the fence to the chicken yard)- with fencing higher than my hip- have no idea who did it, its pretty high- and narrow-and dug under the fence and made a hole into the chicken yard big enough for that little roo to get out and my husband found him dead back by our fire pit. The wiener dog gets a reprieve because I keep her in the house while I am at work.
It has totally just turned me off completely. I am ready to give all the chickens away, tear down the flower beds and call it quits. Between the darn neighbor dog barking and my dogs being idiots, I am done trying to have something I enjoy. Seems that if I enjoy it, it is either going to be destroyed or killed- rather the same thing in the end anyhow.
My dad is coming next month and installing a hot wire across my flower beds- however I have to keep it high enough that my big Sulcata tortoise wont walk into it and that means the beagle and the wiener dog will have clearance...the dogs are lucky I didnt have access to a live wire last night or I would have strung them all together and bbq'd them all.
