The Economy and Your Chickens

[The Chicken Lady]

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Are you in Allegan County?

 

[redoak]

My chickens live in the backyard. They make little chicken landmines that stick to your shoes and boots. I'm hoping this is deterant enough to keep away 2 legged predators. My back-up system is an Aussie and a Pit Bull.

 

[mistylady]

We live pretty far out in the country and I padlock the coop. The dogs alert if someone comes up from three sides and the goat bleats if someone comes up from the back. We are putting up a big gate on the driveway after we fix the post (jeep vs post ... it was a draw - broken tail-light on jeep and the post got moved). If the economy fails then livestock will be worth its wieght in gold. Protect your invests and besides .... not many investments are as wonderful and loving as livestock! All our livestock are pets first ... stock second!

 

[MichiganWoods]

The Chicken Lady wrote:

Are you in Allegan County?

Nope. We are up in the tiny little knot/square in northern Ottawa county. Kent county is a few miles to the east, Muskegon county is just a few miles to the north and the west.​

 

[debilorrah]

I have this:

 

[Bebop]

haha! that's great debiraymond!

I kind of thought about it security for my chickens because of the economy, but I just wouldn't have the MONEY to get camera or electrified fences and such.
I plan to barter with my neighbors if they ever want chickens or eggs. Like veggies, canned good, craft supplies, etc to deter theft, but then again, with all the rake stealing and whatnot.. maybe i need to look into that...
Would anyone have lo-tech ways other than padlocking runs? Possibly putting barb wire on the fence?

I can't get a dog right now!

 

[debilorrah]

We inherited the dog so it was cost free for us and fortunately that dog eats everything.

 

[cajunlizz]

NO , with the economy sinking and FAST , why add another mouth to feed like a dog .

Invest your money in things you will really need . FOOD , WATER , MED'S . Folks I am telling you all , the worse is yet to come . PREPARE is all we can do .


I am in a forum and I read things like this everyday , this is one post that I did copy and paste so sit back and read . NOT SO UNREAL when you look around you , these things are happening now .


There is no doubt that the crash is coming! We cannot borrow our way out of this nor can we simply continue to print money. We MUST at some point return to sound fiscal policies which will include tax increases and spending cuts or more likely, both!

This won't happen. The stock market is in flux. Trillions of dollars have been dumped into the world economy to try and stem the losses, yet they continue. Banks are failing, entire industries are threatened including GM and Chrysler and what's left of the any other American Manufacturing.

Food stamp use in the US is at record highs! Unemployment and underemployment continues to rise and retailers are bracing for the worst Christmas Shopping season in memory. Retailers earn up to 40% of their sales during the Christmas Shopping Season.

We are headed for a full-blown, world-wide depression like none we have ever seen followed by complete collapse of the international economic and monetary systems. Martial law and governmental collapse will soon follow.

Let's be realistic. What has improved this year? Nothing.
-We spent billions to bail out Bear-Sterns which failed.
-We spent billions to bail out Indy Mac which failed.
-We spent 700 billion to bail out Wall Street because of their greed. They
are still on the ropes.

The Federal Reserve is pumping billions in liquidity into the system each week. Still the LIBOR is in the toilet. Consumers and Corporations cannot get credit and cannot make purchases thus further exacerbating the problems.

Joe six pack can't get a loan for a new car because his credit is shot to Hell, so we aren't selling cars which means more lay offs creating more people with bad credit. It's a vicious cycle.

Now on top of this we elect a gullible, naive, left-wing president who thinks he's Santa Obama and will have a bag of goodies to reward all of the left wing wackos who got him elected. The problem is that the goodie bag is empty. The US is broke! Bankrupt! The vault is empty! Continuing to simply borrow and print money will turn the US into a clone of the Weimar Republic in Germany in the inter-war years creating hyperinflation where people needed wheelbarrows full of money to buy a loaf of bread!

Santa Obama plans on spending over a trillion dollars on infrastructure, education, you name it! Every left wing cause will be funded...or so he promised! Of course no one who voted for Santa Obama bothered to look closely and realize this is not possible on top of TAX CUTS for people who DON'T EVEN PAY TAXES!!!

Stock up! Inventory your supplies! Keep your powder dry and get ready! The crash is coming!!!

 

[the1much]

i have night vision camera's, heat and motion detectors, a mean roo

,, and a gun or 7

only 1 person has got to my chickens,,, but i convinced him to drop it and run,, very fast,, and in a zig-zag pattern

 

[Imp]

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Same issue here. I don't think a dog would mix well with the rest of the animals. I have an old doghouse in the backyard and just recently added "Beware of Dog" signs on both gates into the backyard which are padlocked. Also my neighbors have my back and know to call police if they see anyone around when I'm not home. Luckily most of my neighbors are great, and like my chickens. Haven't had any trouble yet.