Good Morning
I am going to be visiting Amy today.
If anyone want creamed honey or regular honey, call me and I will try to meet you someplace
in the Greenville/Taylors/Greer/Spartanburg area.
864-313-9946
Mary
Thanks Amy - I can deal with the escape artist part of them if only they will learn what to do (and not do) with the birds. I knew it wasn't easy to keep them confined before I got them so I was prepared for that. Georgia is an escape artist. I've seen her lay flat on her side and wriggle under the fence as flat as a piece of paper. I've watched her climb over a 6' tall fence. I even witnessed her chewing thru the wire to make a hole to climb through. She is something else. As a matter of fact, we had her tied outside the chicken yard and she kept crawling under to get inside the yard with them. She seemed happy to just have some company. She has tried to play with 3 of my comets, I see the feathers missing from the birds and flying across the ground. The comets are so friendly they don't pay her any attention. The other problem is that both dogs are still competing for the Alpha dog spot. Whenever I'm with both of them, they fight over me. Physically fight, knockdown dragout.....scary kind of fight. Georgia is a bit wilder than Dixie and sometimes she will jump on me for attention. That drives well mannered Dixie crazy, she will put Georgia down on the ground if she thinks she is being to rough with me. So we have to be careful how we put them back together, they will growl and grumble immediately wanting the other to submit but neither will. Right now Georgia is in the dog run alone and Dixie is beside her in the goat yard with the goats. Dixie has adopted the goats and she is very attentive to them. I can't leave Georgia in the goat yard as that fence won't hold her. We're planning to put a run of electric wire along the top and bottom of the pasture fence to keep the dogs in and also help with the goats as they are really hard on fences. So do you think that they will ever learn NOT to play with the chickens (and chew on them, kill them and eat them)? I've been told by Pyr people that I shouldn't expect them to work until they're 3 years old (these are almost 2). I've been told by dog trainers that I will have to "train" this out of them and the sooner the better. I've been told by other people that once a dog kills a chicken there is no going back, they're a lost cause. I don't believe in lost causes. I cannot physically do what the dog trainer is telling me to do, these dogs are just too big and heavy. I guess I will wait it out another year. But you know that "Patience" (spit, spit, spit) is a BAD word in my book.
Can we have our first online lesson on the difference between creamed and regular honey? LOL IDKAmy makes the creamy version sound so delicious...I have only ever had regular...and rarely then NOT from a grocery store!
