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TJordan said:
Lol... Sad right... No I will be the one to deal with any critters, deaths and reprucutions from not using the hardware cloth...
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Maybe this will be a learning experience for him... TO LISTEN TO ME lol...
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Perhaps when the time comes, you can make him pose for a Shaming photo, with a poster or whiteboard stating about how he failed to listen to his beautiful and smart wife about using hardwear cloth when its been documented here time and time again that Chicken wire does not keep out large Chicken eating critters. Pose him with the busted wire and birds. Oh, and to really shame him, he's gotta wear an Alabama shirt.
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bigmrg74 said:
Perhaps when the time comes, you can make him pose for a Shaming photo, with a poster or whiteboard stating about how he failed to listen to his beautiful and smart wife about using hardwear cloth when its been documented here time and time again that Chicken wire does not keep out large Chicken eating critters.  Pose him with the busted wire and birds.  Oh, and to really shame him, he's gotta wear an Alabama shirt.  :gig :celebrate :lau
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The picture of the shredded wire he would take.... The Bama shirt... NEVER.... he won't even let his sister but our kids a Bama shirt... Lol... :lau
 
702marine said:
We are lucky here not to have those critters. My lab is great with protecting them as well. He went running out of the dog door the other night to go check on them. It woke me up too. Turned out to be the wind knocking over the empty trash cans. The chickens are locked up in the coop at night but at least I know he is on top of it. The wing clipping works well for us. I even do it for my Quail just in case they get out when I have to open the hutch. I had a mister system but it didn't work out well because the water is too **** hard here so it just clogs up. I am lucky enough to be retired so I am able to be home most days when it is really hot out. I go out and spray the straw bed a little bit so they can lay in it and cool off. I also have a shallow tray with a few bricks in it. I fill the tray with water to the level of the bricks. The bricks become saturated with water and are cool to the touch because of evaporation. The girls love to just stand on the bricks and get cool. Even on the hottest of days at 115 degrees they don't even so much as hold their wings out. It works really well....
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Good dog!
Our girls are locked up nights too. In fact we have one sentinel Ameraucana (my avatar) that stands guard until we close the coop door then she settles to roost.
We only have 3 chickens with 2 more arriving next Spring by special order. So we'll have a total of 5 and still will not clip wings - after our gate got broken and attacked by 2 big stray dogs we feel safer letting them have their flight feathers - but they are good staying in the yard. Took us and them 3 years to feel safe about what and how we do things in the yard.
Our water is rock hard also so the mister nozzles have to be CLR cleaned or just tossed. We bought up a package of nozzles at Lowe's and just replace the nozzles a couple times a year if the CLR doesn't work.
Our girls like the bricks wet too. In fact they like just about anything wet so a couple times on heatwave days we wet down their area under the popup canopy - as a retiree it is much easier to keep a good watch on them. We used to have a couple Leghorns that liked to actually stand in a pan of water but wet bricks are more appreciated by the other breeds. The little lightweight portable Orbit Mister was the best investment we made for hot days. Our most miserable days are not the hottest days but the most HUMID days. We had a couple humid days this week that were unbearable for humans and chickens!
 
TJordan said:
The picture of the shredded wire he would take.... The Bama shirt... NEVER.... he won't even let his sister but our kids a Bama shirt... Lol...
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Hence why we wish to save the big dummy a lot of time, effort, heartache, and cost by going with the more permanent solution right out of the gate. Hardwear cloth is expensive enough, but he wants to tack on the cost of buying chicken wire to temporary close off your run when its known that it won't come close to being able to stand up to critter attacks? Just goes to show how dumb Auburn fans are.
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bigmrg74 said:
Hence why we wish to save the big dummy a lot of time, effort, heartache, and cost by going with the more permanent solution right out of the gate.  Hardwear cloth is expensive enough, but he wants to tack on the cost of buying chicken wire to temporary close off your run when its known that it won't come close to being able to stand up to critter attacks?  Just goes to show how dumb Auburn fans are.  :p
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:mad: we are not dumb... Maybe a few are HARD HEADED but never dumb.... Grrrrrrrrrr
 
Ok guys... I need a few votes... I'm going to submit a pic for the chicken comb contest but not sure witch one is the $ shot...
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I had fun trying to get these few pictures... He would not stay still lol...
I even got sat on ...
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Lol... She flew up on my arm like... I want a picture too... Stop looking at that boy... Lol...
 
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