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he will be so excited when he logs on to see all this about him! lol
does anyone put roosts in their brooders? if so, how old are the chicks when you do this?
i have noticed a couple of mine are jumping up and hanging out on the top of their waterers...getting a birds eye view of things, and was just thinking about giving them something to jump and climb on...penny for your thoughts.
i have noticed a couple of mine are jumping up and hanging out on the top of their waterers...getting a birds eye view of things, and was just thinking about giving them something to jump and climb on...penny for your thoughts.
I made some out of scrap 2x2s. They can be put in there right away. Once the chicks are big enough, they'll find them. We have an EcoGlow brooder warmer that they love to stand on top of once they are big enough to figure out how to jump up on top of it and I have it sitting taller than the portable roosts.
Yep. they are one and two weeks old.
Scenario:
Over the past few months we have had 17 rabbits, a couple of ducks, a goose and a few chickens get killed by dogs, plus an emu attacked (we knew it was dogs by the tracks left behind plus I saw the dogs attacking the emu)
We had assumed the dogs were strays since people love to dump their dogs out in the country...
At 12:30 this morning one of my dogs started barking.. i got up to investigate and heard dog barking outside.. My first thought was.. "did I forget and leave one of mine outside when I let them out this evening to go do their business...'
Quick head count.. all of mine are accounted for (it only took a few seconds) so I grabbed a flashlight and headed outside
I turned the light towards the commotion and saw three dogs (2 white with black on their heads and 1 white with brown on it's head).. pit mixes I am assuming.. they had the broad "pit style" chest and blocky head. The dogs were chasing my mini horse around.. so I went in to grab a gun
My husband in his infinite wisdom likes to keep all the ammo in a different room than the guns.. even though i have told him time and time again that in an emergency (such as this one) I need a clip loaded and ready within close proximity of said gun. I had assumed my favorite of the guns was like that.. but no... so by the time I found the ammo the dogs had high tailed it away.. It is just my husband and myself here.. no happy little children with inquisitive fingers and no trained monkey with a penchant for fire arms.. so it would seem logical to me to have ready access to weaponry especially since he is deployed a lot leaving me home to fend for myself..
Cut to 5:30 this morning
I head out with puppy in tow for her morning "duties" and lo and behold.. three dogs (2 white/black 1 white/brown) in my yard yet again.....
At this point in time I am determined to see where they belong.. so as I walk out the front door I am greeted by the sight of the dogs... the two white with black were... "busy" doing things that male and female dogs do when a certain mood strikes their fancy.. (in other words.. puppies within 63 days)... JOY!.. more little terrors to kill my animals!.. the dogs see me.. and (as soon as possible) lead me back to their beloved owners. one of my neighbors on the next road over.
Now I have had reason to speak to these people before.. a few years ago a dog of theirs decided that duck dinner was definitely on the menu ... and so I confronted them about said duck dinners (yes.. more than one)... they (at the time) promised me it "would never happen again" and that they were installing an "invisible fence".. a few weeks after that their son came over to ask me if I had seen the dog because it had become MIA.. and after that time there was no barking from their direction until many months later.
Now like a foolish person i had thought they had taken my complaint to heart and were now keeping the new dog(s) confined... apparently.. NOT
back to this morning.. it was now about 5:45ish.. dogs had led me "home" so I went up and rang the bell.. after a few moments the mother of the family came to the door..
i asked her if the dogs were theirs.. she said yes they were.. so I proceeded to tell her in as much detail as possible as to what had transpired over the past few months. During our conversation she admitted that "about 3 or 4 months ago" (gee.. the same amount of time the killing of my livestock had started..) that one of the "other neighbors had brought one of her dogs home to her and informed her it had been running loose". She mentioned that they had thought it would be a good idea to give me their phone number so I could call them and let them know if their dogs were loose.. (what?.. it's MY job to keep track of her dogs???).. they never followed through on that anyway..but i digress...
So after I went through the tally of dead livestock .. damage done to hutches and so on.. with the total of just livestock in the hundreds of dollars.. she just stood there ..never once saying she was sorry. never once offering to make restitution.... just with a blank look on her face like it wasn't HER problem the dogs were killers and running loose! (Perhaps it was MINE for having livestock??? *shrugs*)
So out of the blue she asked me "what do they do with the animals when they kill them?".. I felt like replying "they invite them over for tea!.. what else!".. so instead I went into the gory description of what remains I have found left behind.. i am sure they brought some home to dear ol Mom.. since I never could account for all the body parts.. but she probably figured the animals walked over on their own and flayed themselves open on her back steps... or maybe it was a Texas roadkill kind of buffet and she had dinner for the stew pot!
So then I also informed her to expect puppies in 63 days give or take since I had seen her male and female dog "tied" in my yard.. Now this woman has children.. their dogs have had puppies in the past (maybe not THESE particular three.. but I do know they had puppies before since the boys had told me about it when they were looking for the missing dog). She looked at me like.. "well if they were tied up what's the problem".. so I went on to tell her they were mating.. still a blank look on her face.. I added in,. "making puppies.. doggy sex".. she still stood there with the dumb look on her face. I am only to assume she will think the puppies when they are born will have been a late delivery by the Easter Bunny or maybe a flock of storks!
As I was ready to leave.. letting her know one more time that if her dogs came back they would be shot on sight she commented.. 'well. i guess we can put them in the pen for now until we fix something else..."
Uhm.. ya think?.. nah.. just let them continue to come over and kill off everything else that they can.. besides I can use the target practice!.. *rolls eyes*
what astonished me the most was her complete lack of concern or taking responsibility for what they have allowed their animals to do to mine.
Over the past few months we have had 17 rabbits, a couple of ducks, a goose and a few chickens get killed by dogs, plus an emu attacked (we knew it was dogs by the tracks left behind plus I saw the dogs attacking the emu)
We had assumed the dogs were strays since people love to dump their dogs out in the country...
At 12:30 this morning one of my dogs started barking.. i got up to investigate and heard dog barking outside.. My first thought was.. "did I forget and leave one of mine outside when I let them out this evening to go do their business...'
Quick head count.. all of mine are accounted for (it only took a few seconds) so I grabbed a flashlight and headed outside
I turned the light towards the commotion and saw three dogs (2 white with black on their heads and 1 white with brown on it's head).. pit mixes I am assuming.. they had the broad "pit style" chest and blocky head. The dogs were chasing my mini horse around.. so I went in to grab a gun
My husband in his infinite wisdom likes to keep all the ammo in a different room than the guns.. even though i have told him time and time again that in an emergency (such as this one) I need a clip loaded and ready within close proximity of said gun. I had assumed my favorite of the guns was like that.. but no... so by the time I found the ammo the dogs had high tailed it away.. It is just my husband and myself here.. no happy little children with inquisitive fingers and no trained monkey with a penchant for fire arms.. so it would seem logical to me to have ready access to weaponry especially since he is deployed a lot leaving me home to fend for myself..
Cut to 5:30 this morning
I head out with puppy in tow for her morning "duties" and lo and behold.. three dogs (2 white/black 1 white/brown) in my yard yet again.....
At this point in time I am determined to see where they belong.. so as I walk out the front door I am greeted by the sight of the dogs... the two white with black were... "busy" doing things that male and female dogs do when a certain mood strikes their fancy.. (in other words.. puppies within 63 days)... JOY!.. more little terrors to kill my animals!.. the dogs see me.. and (as soon as possible) lead me back to their beloved owners. one of my neighbors on the next road over.
Now I have had reason to speak to these people before.. a few years ago a dog of theirs decided that duck dinner was definitely on the menu ... and so I confronted them about said duck dinners (yes.. more than one)... they (at the time) promised me it "would never happen again" and that they were installing an "invisible fence".. a few weeks after that their son came over to ask me if I had seen the dog because it had become MIA.. and after that time there was no barking from their direction until many months later.
Now like a foolish person i had thought they had taken my complaint to heart and were now keeping the new dog(s) confined... apparently.. NOT
back to this morning.. it was now about 5:45ish.. dogs had led me "home" so I went up and rang the bell.. after a few moments the mother of the family came to the door..
i asked her if the dogs were theirs.. she said yes they were.. so I proceeded to tell her in as much detail as possible as to what had transpired over the past few months. During our conversation she admitted that "about 3 or 4 months ago" (gee.. the same amount of time the killing of my livestock had started..) that one of the "other neighbors had brought one of her dogs home to her and informed her it had been running loose". She mentioned that they had thought it would be a good idea to give me their phone number so I could call them and let them know if their dogs were loose.. (what?.. it's MY job to keep track of her dogs???).. they never followed through on that anyway..but i digress...
So after I went through the tally of dead livestock .. damage done to hutches and so on.. with the total of just livestock in the hundreds of dollars.. she just stood there ..never once saying she was sorry. never once offering to make restitution.... just with a blank look on her face like it wasn't HER problem the dogs were killers and running loose! (Perhaps it was MINE for having livestock??? *shrugs*)
So out of the blue she asked me "what do they do with the animals when they kill them?".. I felt like replying "they invite them over for tea!.. what else!".. so instead I went into the gory description of what remains I have found left behind.. i am sure they brought some home to dear ol Mom.. since I never could account for all the body parts.. but she probably figured the animals walked over on their own and flayed themselves open on her back steps... or maybe it was a Texas roadkill kind of buffet and she had dinner for the stew pot!
So then I also informed her to expect puppies in 63 days give or take since I had seen her male and female dog "tied" in my yard.. Now this woman has children.. their dogs have had puppies in the past (maybe not THESE particular three.. but I do know they had puppies before since the boys had told me about it when they were looking for the missing dog). She looked at me like.. "well if they were tied up what's the problem".. so I went on to tell her they were mating.. still a blank look on her face.. I added in,. "making puppies.. doggy sex".. she still stood there with the dumb look on her face. I am only to assume she will think the puppies when they are born will have been a late delivery by the Easter Bunny or maybe a flock of storks!
As I was ready to leave.. letting her know one more time that if her dogs came back they would be shot on sight she commented.. 'well. i guess we can put them in the pen for now until we fix something else..."
Uhm.. ya think?.. nah.. just let them continue to come over and kill off everything else that they can.. besides I can use the target practice!.. *rolls eyes*
what astonished me the most was her complete lack of concern or taking responsibility for what they have allowed their animals to do to mine.
Yep. they are one and two weeks old.
It's sadly typical and growing more so.
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and her kids are as bad as she is.. the very first time I went over there her kids were bragging to me how their dog would go out and kill deer by itself.. then drag home remains!
gotta love a dog that brings home dinner...
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