Official Squatch Watchers

[21hens-incharge]

"Noah's are of turds"... how colorful. lol I'm w you on the poop front.. The less poop, the better.


I'll get better pics tonight, they look totally different. The comb difference on my girl to Pat make me really think Pat is a boy. With Steve I honestly though he was girl, even after other people told me he was a boy and def had saddle feathers.


That's the worst part of fall. Stupid leaves hiding animal poop. At least in the summer I could see where the dog poop was and avoid it. Now it's like they're hidden land mines.

Yes I found one the gross way.

Lol! See you KNOW what i'm talking about! I'm not anti dog but right now i'm blissfully dog turd free. I'd have to pick up the poop, couldn't have chickens eating poops. It is about to be winter and I just don't see me freezing, going on the worst treasure hunt ever. Plus I don't want to do all that don't eat the chickens and cat stuff. The fence isn't up to snuff for a dog either and it would have to be super secure for a shepard. Going to sound awful and I aplogise in advance to anybody who has one but I just don't like german shepards. I don't trust them, they seem much too driven for my personal comfort.

Not every breed fits everyone. I get it. There are some breeds that just aren't right for me.
A dog really needs to fit into the existing structure. Many just don't.
I have met some really sweet Shepherds, and some terrifying ones too.
I love my Pitty breeds/mixes of but again the individual dog has to fit.

Dogs aren't a must have here either, iv'e had a few but only one really good one. To have another one i'd have to really just "going to sound hippy dippy here" connect with it. I don't know, I can just tell if any animal is going to be a fit or not. I'm not going to fight tooth and nail just to have something, it just has to sort of fold in.

Not hippy dippy at all. IMHO if a dog doesn't fit it becomes a struggle. That's not how it's supposed to be.

Delilah drives me a bit batty. She is not a good fit for me. She IS a good fit for my son. She is his dog so it's ok.
Just not one I would have chosen. I don't think he would have chosen her either really. He didn't get a choice in the litter as he was bottom of the list.

Sable.....I knew she would fit just from her photo. Not sure how I knew but I knew.

By the way......I think if someone is forced into dog ownership it inevitably goes badly.

 

[ronott1]

Also would take up less room in the freezer for all you who process your own birds.

That is a great way to prepare a chicken!

 

[ronott1]

These chicks were hatched around June 9th. This pic is from 9/11
This is my girl lav orp
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I'll get some current pics tonight, but these were my boys on 8/19
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FWIW, my boys aren't crowing yet either and Steve was 19 weeks before he crowed for the first time.. but the larger of my 2 lavs is starting to mate w/ some the girls. I saw him get either Nibbler or Klaus the other day. She didn't seem too happy about it.

They are very Pretty!

 

[apryl29]

Dogs aren't a must have here either, iv'e had a few but only one really good one. To have another one i'd have to really just "going to sound hippy dippy here" connect with it. I don't know, I can just tell if any animal is going to be a fit or not. I'm not going to fight tooth and nail just to have something, it just has to sort of fold in.

Makes total sense to me. I think that goes w/ any pet.
My parents just got a new dog.. a Poo-uaua... My dad loves the thing and my response was WHYYYYY did you get another BAD WORD dog?! Then I yelled at my cousin for picking it up for them. It makes my dad happy, but still WHYYYYYYYYY???!!!!!!
They'd had one about 10 years ago and it died b/c of that contaminated dog food thing. He was really upset & my mom found this one online & sent my cousin to get it from Indiana for them. I've never needed a pet that bad... though the cousin who went and got it actually paid $900 for a cat [or was supposed to]... so she was def not going to say no.

 

[Molpet]

Have you gotten sn*w yet?

It has sn*wed to the north and more to the south.. the rain did the same too

 

[staceyj]

Phooey......I'm still gonna snuggle and kiss my chickens. Besides ....a good case of Salmonella might get me to my goal weight.

Goal weight... lol.

 

[staceyj]

You guys need to use your poop, then its not so annoying. I am building a great compost heap for using bird poo, and bunny poo goes right on the garden.

Dog poop is not for compost!

 

[casportpony]

What does it mean? @casportpony

Is that you peachick?

 

[staceyj]

Ok let’s see if I can remember here
No Cappy I haven’t seen your incision!
Show us!
I love incisions!

In our family they are called
“Close thighs”

The peacock baby was adorable

The chickens are beautiful!

You guys can keep your cold weather, I switched back from my ugly crocs to my flipper-floppers

I confess to never connecting with the Westie my husband had when I married him. I’m afraid of small dogs and she was mean as hell.
I did however take excellent care of that dog til her dying breath at age 15.

I too have to “connect” with a dog.

Last year I think I didn’t wait long enough for my chicken poop to compost and think my garden suffered for it.
Think I’m going to have a soil test done this year by the extension agency to figure things out.

Yes I started reading that thread about buying chicks and got mad and stopped.

Sometimes I think people are inflammatory on purpose on certain forums.

All I did was type the words “goal weight” and now all my ads are clothes for plus size ladies.

 

[staceyj]

I’ll be back. I have to drop off some cupcakes.