San Diego Chicken meetup and Chat thread

[sarah92107]

humpty!

Humpty is a super cutie pie.

 

[sarah92107]

Last winter we started raising our hens with care and love. We had 3 silkies, 1 black star, 1 EE and two red productions. Last night, four dogs from my careless neighboard got into my fenced property, into my coop and killed all our chickens. They just had started laying, now dead. I went to talk to my neighbord and he told me I can shoot his dogs next time. Im so sad and angry.

So sorry for your loss.
I swear that coyotes can smell eggs or maybe a hen smells different once it a starts to lay. I've lost to many hens to count. Finally my husband bought in a mini excavator and dug the chain link 18" in and he also put cinder bloc dug in and some telephone poles cut, whatever we had that could be used, also have chicken wire on part of the ground inside, that's more to keep the ladies from not digging on the edges by the fence line because they will where the ground out to the bottom of the fence.
I'd send my neighbor a bill and call animal control. Sometimes dogs will move on to larger prey and it could be a cat or another small dog. A pack of dogs are even more so pron to go for prey, it's hard with multi dogs because you never really know which one is the one that gave that deadly bite. I have had this issue, neighbor lost hens, then we lost a cat, then a dog. The dog was the needle that brook the back, I wish something had been done while it had been my neighbors hens. What fun is it for a dog to kill at night when a hen won't run? Just the taste of blood? like to have feathers on the tongue? Start thinking about that and it takes it up a notch. It's a bit twisted

 

[sarah92107]

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Free coop on CL: http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/grd/3694031087.html

 

Thanks for the hot lead
I emailed on this, cross your fingers.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

KKH, Here are Kittens babies hopefully sizzles, one blue, one black, one white, they are round like their mama. too cute! !

Very Cute!! One of each! Thanks for sharing

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

So sorry for your loss.
I swear that coyotes can smell eggs or maybe a hen smells different once it a starts to lay. I've lost to many hens to count. Finally my husband bought in a mini excavator and dug the chain link 18" in and he also put cinder bloc dug in and some telephone poles cut, whatever we had that could be used, also have chicken wire on part of the ground inside, that's more to keep the ladies from not digging on the edges by the fence line because they will where the ground out to the bottom of the fence.
I'd send my neighbor a bill and call animal control. Sometimes dogs will move on to larger prey and it could be a cat or another small dog. A pack of dogs are even more so pron to go for prey, it's hard with multi dogs because you never really know which one is the one that gave that deadly bite. I have had this issue, neighbor lost hens, then we lost a cat, then a dog. The dog was the needle that brook the back, I wish something had been done while it had been my neighbors hens. What fun is it for a dog to kill at night when a hen won't run? Just the taste of blood? like to have feathers on the tongue? Start thinking about that and it takes it up a notch. It's a bit twisted

You're sooooo right here. My neighbors dog killed my almost full grown lamb..ate her alive. After talking to them they admitted that their dogs killed anything that ran through their yard. I wish I had known about it. I'd file a complaint with Animal Control.

 

[Aumlet]

One of my dogs likes to pluck feathers.

I've managed to rescue the targeted chickens before it got further than a few lost feathers. My dog wasn't going for the kill, but I'm sure the "game" would have ended in a dead chicken.

 

[ozexpat]

One of my dogs likes to pluck feathers.

I've managed to rescue the targeted chickens before it got further than a few lost feathers. My dog wasn't going for the kill, but I'm sure the "game" would have ended in a dead chicken.

in my world, it would have also ended in a dead dog or one that had a permanent leash when the chooks are out

 

[ozexpat]

every now and then you come across a thread worth sharing

this one is a gem

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/750468/new-australian-hatching-mystery-egg-at-home

 

[igotchickens]

Hey guys, I posted a few days ago, but not a single person replied! You guys used to be my sole source for hens, someone please come through! Does anyone have any pullets, even not yet laying. I can take them as long as they are off the light and off starter crumble. I'm not too particular and will consider most breeds, just wanting to expand my flock as I sold 6 and lost 2. PM me! Thanks,

Desirae

 

[Aumlet]

in my world, it would have also ended in a dead dog or one that had a permanent leash when the chooks are out

My dogs are never out with the chickens intentionally. Once the dogs got out when the chickens were loose, a few other times a chicken has escaped the run.

I own a high prey drive breed (Rhodesian Ridgeback). I adore him, but he definitely has to be carefully managed around small interesting animals. It comes with the territory.