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They can't stop fighting until you allow them to establish their pecking order. Squabbles are normal when two animals meet one another up close and personal for the first time. As long as there's room for them to move around and for whomever ends up on the bottom of the totem pole to retreat there is no reason to interfere with their natural order of working things out unless things get very, VERY ugly. That RARELY happens.
Well, I put Roger in the cat carrier again last night, in the big coop. Today When I let him out, Mr. Fluffers wasn't so bad about it, and Roger has figured out to keep clear. He is starting to hang around the out skirts of the flock while they are all out, so I am taking that as a good sign. Maybe I will not have to seperate him in the end... But for now, he will be in the carrier at night for his own protection. I would like to breed him to my silkie hens thou, and to do that, I will have to have them in their own run/area that Mr. Fluffers can not get into, SO, it might be better to put them in their own coop as soon as Roger is used to being with them all, and they with him.
WIND! Oh man, I have never seen a dog love leaf piles as much as my two! I have had several dogs, and they all have loved to stick their noses and search, but I swear these two I have now... They dive bomb the piles! I have a huge pile that accumulated just outside my deck slider, and they love it. Of course now I have leaves all over the kitchen floor. Good thing the boys are gone with daddy and Grandma Frances to GR and Grandville Mall for a few hours. HOUSE WORK TIME!
don'tcha just love watching a dog dive into something like that?? such enthusiasm. My little blonde chihuahua does that with my hand under the blankets on the bed, loves to "pounce" and then wrestle with me. and the funny little puppy growl he does just cracks me up.
They can't stop fighting until you allow them to establish their pecking order. Squabbles are normal when two animals meet one another up close and personal for the first time. As long as there's room for them to move around and for whomever ends up on the bottom of the totem pole to retreat there is no reason to interfere with their natural order of working things out unless things get very, VERY ugly. That RARELY happens.
Well, I put Roger in the cat carrier again last night, in the big coop. Today When I let him out, Mr. Fluffers wasn't so bad about it, and Roger has figured out to keep clear. He is starting to hang around the out skirts of the flock while they are all out, so I am taking that as a good sign. Maybe I will not have to seperate him in the end... But for now, he will be in the carrier at night for his own protection. I would like to breed him to my silkie hens thou, and to do that, I will have to have them in their own run/area that Mr. Fluffers can not get into, SO, it might be better to put them in their own coop as soon as Roger is used to being with them all, and they with him.
WIND! Oh man, I have never seen a dog love leaf piles as much as my two! I have had several dogs, and they all have loved to stick their noses and search, but I swear these two I have now... They dive bomb the piles! I have a huge pile that accumulated just outside my deck slider, and they love it. Of course now I have leaves all over the kitchen floor. Good thing the boys are gone with daddy and Grandma Frances to GR and Grandville Mall for a few hours. HOUSE WORK TIME!
don'tcha just love watching a dog dive into something like that?? such enthusiasm. My little blonde chihuahua does that with my hand under the blankets on the bed, loves to "pounce" and then wrestle with me. and the funny little puppy growl he does just cracks me up.
