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No idea, last year when Marlene was set on scalping everybody I spiked her water with beer like 75% water 25% beer. Made her much nicer, I do the beer thing to hormonal roos but I was at a loss with her so I just tried it. Might be miller time for Rosie.;)
I have a jerk hen!
Come and get her.
She’s the one who tore Dolly’s comb last week.

I’ve been trying to Re-integrate her into the flock. Two days I had her in a portable dog pen next to where they free range and everybody seemed fine. Then I tried her one at a time with each of the other two girls and they were fine. Then I put her in the big open run with the two I’m not worried about and all day they were happy as clams.
Then I tried Letting Rosie back in with the group , while standing RIGHT THERE with a long handled POOL SKIMMER in my HAND,
And dang Rosie jumped her and tried to tear her comb off again! I sent Rosie flying then caught her by a leg and tossed her back in the closed run.
What the hellllllll is causing this aggression!
They have plenty of space, and eat all flock ( higher protein than layer feed)

I’m Really frustrated.
 
No idea, last year when Marlene was set on scalping everybody I spiked her water with beer like 75% water 25% beer. Made her much nicer, I do the beer thing to hormonal roos but I was at a loss with her so I just tried it. Might be miller time for Rosie.;)
My vet once told me about a client that shared her nightly whiskey with her dog. Little lap size thing. Vet said it lived into it's 20s and was one of the healthiest dogs he knew. LOL
I don't drink beer but I'd buy some to try on that jerk! LOL
 
I showed hubby this and told him I wanna build it! He said "as a coop?" . I said "of course". He said go for it. He wonders who I will put in it.

A few Polish of course!!!!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Gypsy-Wagon-1/



I may be a bit nutty. :hmm

I love this! I could see me ending up with a whole train as chicken houses. :clap

Thanks my friend! It really was fun. But coming back home is always great, too. I've been just lazing with the chickies outside (it's hot and sunny, LOVE) and farting around in my garden. Made a pitcher of ice water with limes, cucumber slices, and mint, and I'm trying to hydrate and restore my poor liver, ha!

I discovered this drink down there that I like too much, called a Pimm's Cup...I tweaked it and made a sort of mojito out of it and it is divine. So, I am being healthy today. Water, yoga, no alcohol, and grilled fresh fish later, gifted by a friend of a friend. It is so good to be cooking my own food after eating all that fried unhealthy N'Awleans cooking all week!

So woman, when you find a drink you like too much, you gotta share the recipe. :P

@apryl29 I agree with bark lice. I looked up more pictures and they sure do fit the bill.

As for the taterhead rooster—I have one and I can’t kill him.:oops: I even have someone that will do it for me and turn him into dog food. I feel guilty because he wasn’t always a jerk. (I feel like I must have done something) I’ve tried charging him, ignoring him, standing up to him. Nothing seems to work. I’m wondering if he has brain damage or something. He’ll attack the lid to the waterer. I don’t have to be holding it. I can tak it off and he’ll attack it on the ground. :idunno He so beautiful. He goes through spells of being ok to being a tater. I haven’t figured it out.

My last rooster that was a tater I fixed him by taking my normal walk down to the coop, with a big tree branch in my hand (2” diameter maybe?) and acting like i wasn’t watching him. Waited for him to come at me.... whack! Flat across her a chest. Broke the branch. He never came at me again, and was a perfect flock master after that, even died defending his girls from a hawk.
I don’t condone violence on animals, just saying I was at my wits end with him. If it hadn’t been a branch, it woulda been an axe.
 
I love this! I could see me ending up with a whole train as chicken houses. :clap



So woman, when you find a drink you like too much, you gotta share the recipe. :p



My last rooster that was a tater I fixed him by taking my normal walk down to the coop, with a big tree branch in my hand (2” diameter maybe?) and acting like i wasn’t watching him. Waited for him to come at me.... whack! Flat across her a chest. Broke the branch. He never came at me again, and was a perfect flock master after that, even died defending his girls from a hawk.
I don’t condone violence on animals, just saying I was at my wits end with him. If it hadn’t been a branch, it woulda been an axe.

It will be pricey but I really want to make one!
The base is 4x8 but the top wide span ends up 8x8....... Working on drafting it while I do the coop reviews and keep an eye on these crazy puppies.

I need a challenge so going from scratch for drawings...... Of course I have tons of things to do/finish also. If I build this I can put my cochins in it and claim their coop as my garden shed. That will free up my shop some....... Lol need the shop to build in bet cannot have it until I build..... Talk about conundrum.
 
Lol, notice iv'e not been complaining about mine harassing his girls? Iv'e been putting hair on his chest. He's louder but he isn't being a schmuck. I'll take it.:gig
My vet once told me about a client that shared her nightly whiskey with her dog. Little lap size thing. Vet said it lived into it's 20s and was one of the healthiest dogs he knew. LOL
I don't drink beer but I'd buy some to try on that jerk! LOL
 
It will be pricey but I really want to make one!
The base is 4x8 but the top wide span ends up 8x8....... Working on drafting it while I do the coop reviews and keep an eye on these crazy puppies.

I need a challenge so going from scratch for drawings...... Of course I have tons of things to do/finish also. If I build this I can put my cochins in it and claim their coop as my garden shed. That will free up my shop some....... Lol need the shop to build in bet cannot have it until I build..... Talk about conundrum.

:gig I’d be interested in what you come up with. Seriously. I have all bantams, so I could see using it as a bachelor coop for a bunch of small roosters.

Speaking of.... one of my bantam Cochins was trying to mate a hen that is raising littles. She wasn’t in for lovin at the moment and was fighting to get away from him. I pointed a finger at him and said, out loud, “Hey bud, don’t be a tater” :lau :lau
 
yesterday We had storms all afternoon so I wasn't out with the birds as much...
I went out between storms and about 6:30 pm one of the june 3rd poults was missing. Couldn't hear it calling and didn't find it anywhere in the yard. walked the fence, looked at the fence. until the lighting forced me inside.. it didn't show up this morning either. Not sure what happened, weather wasn't to the hawks liking, amd they do find inventive was to commit suicide...The one that had been sick for weeks , same hatch, was dead this morning. :hitSo I lost 2 from this hatch

Went out at 8 ish and it was raining and dark from the storms so the bird had gone to roost early.. locked up 3 of the coops and the last coop should have had 2 chickens and five 8wk poults.. NO POULTS.. sure enough they were in the rain sitting on the fence between pens. :he I got 3 in and 2 ran off in the pen. Came back with a flashlight and couldn't find a white one and couldn't catch the brown one.:hitLighting hit the high power lines next to my property so I figured they were on their own...At dawn the brown one was at the door to a different coop:weeand the white one showed up about 6 am :wee

about 2 hour ago got an alert that storm was coming ... so I ran out and a poult, from the same hatch as the missing one, was on the wrong side of the electric fence... I turned off the fence and caught him.. I wonder if thats what happened to the missing poult? The fence was on and on the inside is netting so they can't touch the fence.. but if it got shocked it may have run off and gotten lost.. :he
storms started again.:barnie

so I am glad I hatched so many. I have lost 2 to illness and 1 is a mystery. 15 left and I probably will lose a few more... Have to expect losses when they aren't confined.
I have no words. Just :hit
You are stronger than I.
All the other squatchers will tell ya, I’m a cry baby.
 
I love this! I could see me ending up with a whole train as chicken houses. :clap



So woman, when you find a drink you like too much, you gotta share the recipe. :p



My last rooster that was a tater I fixed him by taking my normal walk down to the coop, with a big tree branch in my hand (2” diameter maybe?) and acting like i wasn’t watching him. Waited for him to come at me.... whack! Flat across her a chest. Broke the branch. He never came at me again, and was a perfect flock master after that, even died defending his girls from a hawk.
I don’t condone violence on animals, just saying I was at my wits end with him. If it hadn’t been a branch, it woulda been an axe.
I was bent down messing with the waterer and he launched himself at my head. I admit I kicked him. I was so shocked and it was my first defence. He came at me again. I've grabbed him and carried him around. Checked him over and basically pestered him for 10 min straight... then he left me alone for a few days.
I swear he has vision problems or something. He doesn't run up and try to attack me. But if I move a certain way he thinks I'm attacking him.
 
No idea, last year when Marlene was set on scalping everybody I spiked her water with beer like 75% water 25% beer. Made her much nicer, I do the beer thing to hormonal roos but I was at a loss with her so I just tried it. Might be miller time for Rosie.;)
Hey wait...are you just pullin my leg or are you for real? :eek:
Because I’ll try anything but I don’t have any beer in the house and don’t want to go out and buy it if your jk-ing me. :hugs
 

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