Texas

[galanie]

i totally agree. mentioned to some friends at work yesterday that i had to kill a chicken because she was suffering and explained the slitting of the throat and they looked at me like i was a monster! i told them it was peacful and they simply fall asleep if done right, but its beyond their scope of comprehension. As far as feeding them to your dogs, do you process them in any special way or just give them the carcass? i have been wanting to do that with mine, but am afraid if i just give them a dead chicken they will relate it to the live ones and give chase...dont need any of that!

I scalded and plucked it, then cut the legs off and gave one leg to each of our 2 little dogs and the rest of it to our big dog.

They've had whole chicks before. They live peacefully with our chickens. We don't let them around birds under 12 weeks without hardware cloth between because one bird got squished at 12 weeks with our first batch. We believe it was an accident. Our dogs are not aggressive towards our birds and have never had anything but raw meat to eat.

I do know people who feed raw but do not give their LGDs raw. I haven't decided what I would do if I ever needed LGDs but I believe I would still feed them raw.

The desire to chase is separate from the desire to kill which is separate from the desire to eat. (In a domestic well fed dog)
If the dogs don't already chase the birds I do not believe feeding raw would encourage chasing and killing. I would always at least pluck and partially process. I wouldn't want my dog to start eating a bird that died in the yard. I also wouldn't let my dogs around chicks even if I didn't feed raw.

I know only that I give my chickens eggs to eat and they won't touch one that hasn't already been broken. No egg eaters here. Yet the internet is full of warnings about giving eggs to chickens causing them to be "egg eaters." I would think that if you gave them a whole carcass to gnaw on, that might, and I say MIGHT, encourage chicken eating but my understanding is that those feeding dogs raw meat dont' do it that way. I don't think there would be a problem. If they don't already chase and kill, and already won't touch a fully feathered live one, they certainly shouldn't touch one that happened to die on their watch. Dogs are smarter than chickens, and yet even chickens won't consume certain things, like unbroken eggs unless already disposed to do it.

 

[7acres]

Thanks showbarnmom and wlhtx

 

[chickkrzi]

Hi all, from Waco here, going to be in Dallas this weekend. Looking for a breeders for bearded buff silkies. Any help would best appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[showbarnmom]

Houston......I think I have a broodie!!!!!!! Game mutts been in the box since lunch! She's a total fruit loop and didn't even flinch when I stuck my hand under her! Eeps!

 

[StelleKitten]

As a quick update, Tim and I both passed our permit test for our cdls

 

[bnjrob]

As a quick update, Tim and I both passed our permit test for our cdls

 

[Cockle-Dood]

As a quick update, Tim and I both passed our permit test for our cdls

Well done!

 

[7acres]

Anyone that is going to have just a few chicks might be interested in the Chick Starter kits at Tractor Supply. The are on sale for about $2.99. They include a cardboard fence, feed, waterer and feeder. Click on clearance on the left side of their site, put in you zip and it will tell you if stores around you have any. They might be useful if you got caught in a pinch and needed to get some things together.

 

[Cockle-Dood]

I got one of those kits, and in a pinch is about all they are good for. I had week old chicks get themselves stuck in the feeder grate and the waterer will seperate from the base in a heartbeat if your not careful. But it does include 1lb of medicated 20% starter. Thats about the only thing i used

 

[showbarnmom]

Man shouldn't have said anything. Mutt came running off her nest this morning