North Carolina

[Hollowoakfarm]

Good Morning!

Iceman, Happy Birthday to the boys, and condolences on the loss of their grunkle. I love that you are honoring what you know he would have wanted by continuing with the party. That's a good lesson for the boys, too. Life goes on, and wallowing in grief forever does not honor the person's memory. Turn over a glass (ahem...non-alcoholic!) in memory at the party, with your boys.

 

[dutchbunny83]

This made me smile

My almost 3 year old told me she's the farmer of this place and keeps taking her tractor around the yard, talking to all her animals.

 

[farmraised86]

Yet another addition to the recycled garden my neighbor does flooring for a living and had a truck load of Linoleum chips from a floor he just ripped up and I thaught it would be cool for my bottle path to my wife herb garden I just built her for mothers day.

next I'm thinking the circle drive lol

 

[ramirezframing]

Come home after being gone most of the day to find out that my place had been hit by a young pitt bull and some mixed breed dogs. 2 polish hens dead in their pens, my broody blue project polish and a silver laced. One of my silver laced roosters gone. But the worst was my main sumatra pen ...TOTALLY EMPTY except for the one mixed breed hen who is a grand daughter off of my first sumatra rooster.

Followed the feathers across the road to one dog's house and the people tell me that they got one black hen out of another neighbor's pitt bull's mouth and put her on my back steps. I check everywhere and find the polish rooster coming out of the woods and into the field beside my house. I mange to chase him down through the woods without killing myself. Now that I think about it, it's nice to know that I can still chase down my supper if I ever need to. Not that I want to repeat that anytime soon!

I then found one of my dun sumatra hens in the garden. My son was walking in the side yard looking for birds as a black sumatra hen jumped out of a tree. I found another black sumatra hen in the front bushes.

I had to give up the hunt for birds/ bodies and tend to the wounded birds. Most the polish made it out without injuries. A few silver laced hens have some rips in them and one hen's side is filled with air. One rooster busted off one of his spurs. The sumatras that I caught seem ok for the moment, will have to look closer at them in the morning, as dusk was heavily upon us. All the birds are very stressed. Lost eggs from the broody polish and from my broody dun sumatra, even lost a turkey egg in the silkie pen that is beside the sumatra pen. My guess is the silkies also got to going with all the ruckus going on beside them and managed to break the egg.

Even with all the birds I did manage to find, I was still missing the one bird that I wanted back the most (even over all the hens), my dun sumatra rooster. Being almost dark, I came in the house, hoping to find the rest of my sumatras in the morning, including my dun rooster. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, it was the mute neighbor man. He flapped his arms and pointed across the road towards his trailer. We go over and there is what looks like a hen, as I get closer I can see that it is my dun rooster! My kids and I manage to catch him up, and after a few death screams and biting I give him a quick look over and put him in with his hens (in a cement pen this time so no digging in till their pen is fixed).

Come morning I will see what other hens show up and I'll be fixing pens with a gun close at hand.

Here's hoping I don't lose any to stress from all of this.

 

[enola]

OMG! How horrible...... right after I moved here neighbor's dogs got hold of cages and tore them apart to kill all of my roosters except my Araucana. I know how you feel

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

RF, what a horrible thing to come home to! I'm so glad you got some of your birds...including that roo...back! We all know that if you can get them past the shock, they heal from surprising injuries. I'll keep you in my thoughts.

Dogs have been a problem for many lately. Hope that's the last!

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

So very sorry RF............is there anything you can give the birds to help with stress
like pedilyte or something? I have a doctor thing to do in the afternoon but can come
help get pens fixed.

 

[Tapioca]

****. People need to keep their animals in their own yards. That would piss me off so much.

 

[scottcaddy]

Come home after being gone most of the day to find out that my place had been hit by a young pitt bull and some mixed breed dogs. 2 polish hens dead in their pens, my broody blue project polish and a silver laced. One of my silver laced roosters gone. But the worst was my main sumatra pen ...TOTALLY EMPTY except for the one mixed breed hen who is a grand daughter off of my first sumatra rooster.

Followed the feathers across the road to one dog's house and the people tell me that they got one black hen out of another neighbor's pitt bull's mouth and put her on my back steps. I check everywhere and find the polish rooster coming out of the woods and into the field beside my house. I mange to chase him down through the woods without killing myself. Now that I think about it, it's nice to know that I can still chase down my supper if I ever need to. Not that I want to repeat that anytime soon!

I then found one of my dun sumatra hens in the garden. My son was walking in the side yard looking for birds as a black sumatra hen jumped out of a tree. I found another black sumatra hen in the front bushes.

I had to give up the hunt for birds/ bodies and tend to the wounded birds. Most the polish made it out without injuries. A few silver laced hens have some rips in them and one hen's side is filled with air. One rooster busted off one of his spurs. The sumatras that I caught seem ok for the moment, will have to look closer at them in the morning, as dusk was heavily upon us. All the birds are very stressed. Lost eggs from the broody polish and from my broody dun sumatra, even lost a turkey egg in the silkie pen that is beside the sumatra pen. My guess is the silkies also got to going with all the ruckus going on beside them and managed to break the egg.

Even with all the birds I did manage to find, I was still missing the one bird that I wanted back the most (even over all the hens), my dun sumatra rooster. Being almost dark, I came in the house, hoping to find the rest of my sumatras in the morning, including my dun rooster. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, it was the mute neighbor man. He flapped his arms and pointed across the road towards his trailer. We go over and there is what looks like a hen, as I get closer I can see that it is my dun rooster! My kids and I manage to catch him up, and after a few death screams and biting I give him a quick look over and put him in with his hens (in a cement pen this time so no digging in till their pen is fixed).

Come morning I will see what other hens show up and I'll be fixing pens with a gun close at hand.

Here's hoping I don't lose any to stress from all of this.

Sorry, do the 3 S's while you are fixing up the damaged pens if you can!

Scott

 

[ramirezframing]

Thank you for the well wishes, hopfully no more will be lost. Probably wont get much sleep, but it'll be worth it to know the birds will be safe.