Texas

[yinepu]

Sarge and i were talking and if i wanted to try my hand at making some showgirls, is that a silkie roo over a Turken hen, or vice versa? been looking at what i got in the brooder and what the simplest types of crosses i can make with adding minimal chickens.

yup... Silkie roo over turken hen!


not sure what you would get if you went the other way.... drag queen maybe?...

 

[yinepu]

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[Texasmja]

I can see him now...walking his goat around the neighborhood.

My goat will ride in the truck with you and hang her head out the window.

 

[Texasmja]

when I mentioned it at the feed store this morning the owner of the store told me I was a lot kinder than anyone else locally.. he said those dogs would have been dead the first time around.. so it's expected that if your dog is out killing livestock it will get shot

It is expected here also. One issue I can foresee for us is city people moving out here on these small 2 acre ranchettes they are building all around us. They think they are in the country so it doesn't matter about their dogs running loose. We shoot them on the spot if they are chasing anything here. Then we bury them and never speak of it again.

 

[Texasmja]

yup... Silkie roo over turken hen!


not sure what you would get if you went the other way.... drag queen maybe?...

 

[Imprfctme]

The town we are moving to this summer recently lost their trained police dog because someone saw it running towards their chickens, assumed it was a coyote and shot it dead. Personally, I would be a little angry to learn that a very expensive trained dog was killed because of someone's fear of losing their livestock - note that no birds were actually killed, it was just running towards them. I would have hoped that someone would approach the dog first and shoo them off before shooting. This was a different situation entirely than what you're going through though. It seems clear that these people don't care about the welfare of their animals or anyone else's. Such a shame, and such a terrible example for their kids. Ugh. How about trying to live trap them first? I'd trap them and drop them off at a shelter somewhere 100miles away. I doubt they would care or notice that their dogs had gone missing. I agree though that they should be reported to the sheriff because anyone with such a neglectful attitude towards their pets is probably not doing the best job of feeding & caring for their kids. It never hurts to get families like this on the radar as it were. It also doesn't hurt to have an established case against them because shooting pets, however feral they might be, could be really misinterpreted, especially on the internet. You really don't need some crazy social media campaign calling for your heads with people across the globe getting angry at you without knowing the whole story. What a crappy thing to have happen in general though, sorry you are going through this. Yuck.

PS I bought our Bouvier a bright orange vest to wear, not that she's trained for hunting, but I'm terrified someone will think she's a bear and shoot her on sight. I'm used to walking her off-leash up here but don't know that I can do that once we move to Texas no matter how well-trained she is.

 

[topdycke]

It is expected here also. One issue I can foresee for us is city people moving out here on these small 2 acre ranchettes they are building all around us. They think they are in the country so it doesn't matter about their dogs running loose. We shoot them on the spot if they are chasing anything here. Then we bury them and never speak of it again.

I totally agree with Texasmja - dead dogs tell no tales.

 

[topdycke]

It is expected here also. One issue I can foresee for us is city people moving out here on these small 2 acre ranchettes they are building all around us. They think they are in the country so it doesn't matter about their dogs running loose. We shoot them on the spot if they are chasing anything here. Then we bury them and never speak of it again.

one observation about the city people is that they also let their kids run loose (ATVs are apparently toys) and we probably have as much shotgun action out here as Sarge has in his hood.

 

[Texasmja]

I totally agree with Texasmja - dead dogs tell no tales.

Well we have horses that cost up to 45k, so no dog shall chase my horses and live.

 

[yinepu]

Well.. my day has gotten better.. I just went and paid for three adorable little pure white Saanen baby goats!

picking them up around the 15th (after I get a hopefully dog proof pen built .. with a moat.. a guard tower and trained snipers)
Actually my LGD will be outside with them.. plus the pup in training. It will be warm enough at night for Mishou to go back to work (she has arthritis really bad so I let her take the winter off) and she loves goats.
But i wasn't joking about the fencing / pen.. the barbed wire isn't very goat proof around the front pasture

and since the barn went down in the windstorm i need to get a shelter built for the babies.