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fisherlady said:
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Hoping the rest of the Wyandotte do well for hatching!

As for Mindy... it must just be her nature...though as a puppy we did teach her to 'lay quiet' and 'be easy' even before we got birds when she was 2. Dillon (also an English Shepherd) is also very tolerant of them but gets up and moves when the crawl on him, though he ignores them laying against him when he is sunning himself.
Mindy, though, goes out of her way to be with the birds, she will stay outside watching them for hours, she gets in the coops for patrol and baby watching and if there is a bird in the house for medical care she sleeps as close as she can with it as if the keep an eye on it or prevent loneliness. Any loud cheeping is immediate cause for human notification or racing to find the source...

English shepherds are known for this 'tending' mentality, but she has an unusually high dose of it. ES dogs are also known as critter dogs, and she and Dillon are both unforgiving to anything they view as threats to their birds or cats... coons, possums, rats and even stray cats but cats have always been run off, not caught... yet. They don't go off property to hunt, unless I have them out and tell them 'ok' to investigate something.
What is cool is how well they seem to figure things out for themselves, and how deliberate they are in their activities and how well they switch modes. They can run into a group of birds to attack a possum and not hurt a feather on a bird in the process. Or take out a rat one minute then flop down and watch chicks the next. We have seen this first hand a number of times...I don't know what I am going to do after Mindy is gone, don't even want to think about that. But I can tell you that we will probably always have an ES as long as we have poultry or other farm animals. I just dont know if we will have another one as 'chick crazy' as she is.
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My Chopper was a mammoth dog. He never hurt a hair on a child’s head. Josh walked around with his hand in Chopper’s mouth. He won at tug of war, and when he put a pacifier in Chopper’s mouth, Chopper brought it to me. He was a Black lab/GS mated with a Great Dane on his father’s side. His mother was a Samoyed/Border Collie (C-section!). His head came to my waist.
 
fisherlady said:
Busy day in the coops here. Got home from work about 0730 did a bit of housework and headed out to move around some hens. We had 3 broodies hatched out last night. All were in elevated boxes so I needed to get floor boxes set up and shift them down. 3 hens with a total of 16 chicks. 2 eggs never pipped and one hatched but hadn't absorbed its yolk and it didn't make it.
Hens all brooded separately and I set them up separate floor boxes.

So on to the important stuff... the pics! LOL
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I am not sure which has me more captivated--that gorgeous SP Rock or that wonderful doggie! Can you sex SP Rocks early?
 
Lelanae said:
I am not sure which has me more captivated--that gorgeous SP Rock or that wonderful doggie! Can you sex SP Rocks early?
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Thank you...
There is no perfect formula for SPR rocks, generally the lighter ones end up being roosters about 70-75% of the time, but it isn't ever dependable enough a method for me to trust it. Wish it was as easy as with the barred rocks and their head spot!
 
So the 2 girls in the lower coop decided to brood together, so we gave them a bigger box, the chicks are having a blast having 2 hens to jump on!
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