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[napdognewfie]

My daughter is going to raise meat rabbits. We raised them when she was small.

It tastes like chicken. Lol

 

[VSZPSU]

Kunkletown
Looking for Heritage RR and BR- Tks.

 

[emorems0]

So remember how we had one surviving rabbit from our summer kindling? It was ready to be butchered, hubs was just waiting to take it over to his friend's house so he could show us the best way to process it for keeping the pelt, etc. Well, we officially have had three litters now with zero to show for it... a dog came in our yard yesterday and absolutely wreaked havoc while we were away. Ripped open the rabbit cage and took our rabbit (thankfully stopped at that cage and didn't touch mom or dad rabbit), tore the door open to the turkey shed and killed what was supposed to be our breeder hen that we got from ChicquesChicks, and got into the chicken run and took my favorite pullet that we had gotten from SilkieSensation.

When we got home yesterday afternoon my daughter spotted a chicken on our front porch, it was our rouge chicken who thinks it's a turkey and always goes in and out of the runs as she pleases so I didn't think much of it, other than it being odd that she came up to the front yard. I scooped her up to toss her back in the run and on my way around the house I see red feathers and then I see a dog that I don't know in the backyard. I don't really know what the damage is yet, I see Romeo out in the chicken run ready to defend his girls and a bunch of chickens in the coop. I only see one of our 4 turkeys. The dog doesn't seem aggressive toward me, so my first instinct is to clip it up on our line like I would any other neighbor dog that I know so I run in for a leash to take it to the front yard where the line is... hubs warned me not to go near the dog because we don't know it and to call the cops (he's pretty good at reminding me of common sense!). Dog goes off into the woods behind our house and Hubs spots a turkey in a tree in the woods so we go to collect it and do an inventory of our loss. Later that night as I was putting the kids to bed another turkey came home and perched on our porch railing for the night so the total loss was one turkey, one chicken, and one rabbit and no leads on the dog. I posted on the FB page for our neighborhood and someone said that they have had problems with that dog being aggressive toward him and his daughter so I'm glad Hubs wouldn't let me try to clip it up... although I'm ****** that it wasn't caught.

I went out this morning to feed everyone and the turkeys were afraid to go back into their shed. I let the sleep in the tree and on the porch last night because of all that happened, but they did not want to go home this morning. After surveying all the piles of feathers throughout the yard, I don't see any from the missing pullet, how is that possible? Could the dog have eaten a pullet without leaving feathers? If it was just taking refuge in the woods like the turkey, I would think it would have returned by now. I'm kicking myself now for letting them out of their cage within the coop two days ago... she would have been safe in the coop

 

[dheltzel]

What breeds are your bullies?

They are all the Silkied Ameraucanas. I bought a group of chicks and have kept them isolated from other breeds because I figured they were at a competitive disadvantage. Seems they are not above killing their siblings for sport. I've lost quite a few and am starting to reconsider if I should be raising these after all. If a breed aggravates me, it won't be in my coops for long.But I've been wrong before, I had soured on Bielefelders, but now I like them a lot more than I did.

 

[barbiegirl]

So remember how we had one surviving rabbit from our summer kindling? It was ready to be butchered, hubs was just waiting to take it over to his friend's house so he could show us the best way to process it for keeping the pelt, etc. Well, we officially have had three litters now with zero to show for it... a dog came in our yard yesterday and absolutely wreaked havoc while we were away. Ripped open the rabbit cage and took our rabbit (thankfully stopped at that cage and didn't touch mom or dad rabbit), tore the door open to the turkey shed and killed what was supposed to be our breeder hen that we got from ChicquesChicks, and got into the chicken run and took my favorite pullet that we had gotten from SilkieSensation.

When we got home yesterday afternoon my daughter spotted a chicken on our front porch, it was our rouge chicken who thinks it's a turkey and always goes in and out of the runs as she pleases so I didn't think much of it, other than it being odd that she came up to the front yard. I scooped her up to toss her back in the run and on my way around the house I see red feathers and then I see a dog that I don't know in the backyard. I don't really know what the damage is yet, I see Romeo out in the chicken run ready to defend his girls and a bunch of chickens in the coop. I only see one of our 4 turkeys. The dog doesn't seem aggressive toward me, so my first instinct is to clip it up on our line like I would any other neighbor dog that I know so I run in for a leash to take it to the front yard where the line is... hubs warned me not to go near the dog because we don't know it and to call the cops (he's pretty good at reminding me of common sense!). Dog goes off into the woods behind our house and Hubs spots a turkey in a tree in the woods so we go to collect it and do an inventory of our loss. Later that night as I was putting the kids to bed another turkey came home and perched on our porch railing for the night so the total loss was one turkey, one chicken, and one rabbit and no leads on the dog. I posted on the FB page for our neighborhood and someone said that they have had problems with that dog being aggressive toward him and his daughter so I'm glad Hubs wouldn't let me try to clip it up... although I'm ****** that it wasn't caught.

I went out this morning to feed everyone and the turkeys were afraid to go back into their shed. I let the sleep in the tree and on the porch last night because of all that happened, but they did not want to go home this morning. After surveying all the piles of feathers throughout the yard, I don't see any from the missing pullet, how is that possible? Could the dog have eaten a pullet without leaving feathers? If it was just taking refuge in the woods like the turkey, I would think it would have returned by now. I'm kicking myself now for letting them out of their cage within the coop two days ago... she would have been safe in the coop

So sorry

 

[stake]

Lebanon

Howdy from Chester Co....

 

[stake]

Kunkletown
Looking for Heritage RR and BR- Tks.

Howdy from Chester Co....don't have what you're looking for but I am sure someone does...

 

[stake]

So remember how we had one surviving rabbit from our summer kindling? It was ready to be butchered, hubs was just waiting to take it over to his friend's house so he could show us the best way to process it for keeping the pelt, etc. Well, we officially have had three litters now with zero to show for it... a dog came in our yard yesterday and absolutely wreaked havoc while we were away. Ripped open the rabbit cage and took our rabbit (thankfully stopped at that cage and didn't touch mom or dad rabbit), tore the door open to the turkey shed and killed what was supposed to be our breeder hen that we got from ChicquesChicks, and got into the chicken run and took my favorite pullet that we had gotten from SilkieSensation.

When we got home yesterday afternoon my daughter spotted a chicken on our front porch, it was our rouge chicken who thinks it's a turkey and always goes in and out of the runs as she pleases so I didn't think much of it, other than it being odd that she came up to the front yard. I scooped her up to toss her back in the run and on my way around the house I see red feathers and then I see a dog that I don't know in the backyard. I don't really know what the damage is yet, I see Romeo out in the chicken run ready to defend his girls and a bunch of chickens in the coop. I only see one of our 4 turkeys. The dog doesn't seem aggressive toward me, so my first instinct is to clip it up on our line like I would any other neighbor dog that I know so I run in for a leash to take it to the front yard where the line is... hubs warned me not to go near the dog because we don't know it and to call the cops (he's pretty good at reminding me of common sense!). Dog goes off into the woods behind our house and Hubs spots a turkey in a tree in the woods so we go to collect it and do an inventory of our loss. Later that night as I was putting the kids to bed another turkey came home and perched on our porch railing for the night so the total loss was one turkey, one chicken, and one rabbit and no leads on the dog. I posted on the FB page for our neighborhood and someone said that they have had problems with that dog being aggressive toward him and his daughter so I'm glad Hubs wouldn't let me try to clip it up... although I'm ****** that it wasn't caught.

I went out this morning to feed everyone and the turkeys were afraid to go back into their shed. I let the sleep in the tree and on the porch last night because of all that happened, but they did not want to go home this morning. After surveying all the piles of feathers throughout the yard, I don't see any from the missing pullet, how is that possible? Could the dog have eaten a pullet without leaving feathers? If it was just taking refuge in the woods like the turkey, I would think it would have returned by now. I'm kicking myself now for letting them out of their cage within the coop two days ago... she would have been safe in the coop

Sorry to hear....if you put some dry dog food out in a pile, you may be able to lure the critter back....(though maybe some others too)....then you can see if its a stray or a neighbor's dog

 

[MKirst]

Hello, thank you for the nice welcome.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

To anyone using 'tablets' for BYC, pros and cons? I am looking for replace my windows tablet and I will absolutely NOT be getting another Microsoft product. I am figuring an android tablet but was wondering if anyone has trouble with posting or adding pictures.

I use a Samsung android tablet all the time and it's fairly easy on here. If you want the pictures to be bigger when you upload them, you just switch to desktop view and you can choose the size. I have noticed though that sometimes when using Chrome, it won't let me upload pictures BUT I just switch to the Internet browser instead and it works just fine. It may be a chrome issue.