The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[holm25]

What a good boy he is! I cant wait to see him grow! That is if u keep him!

 

[speckledhen]

Last night was not good sleep. Finn was at the window constantly. About 2:30 a.m., I heard what sounded like a big shotgun blast. Then, spaced out, what sounded like smaller gunfire. Thought maybe someone was shooting coyotes or other predators. Then, sirens, coming very close and they stopped. I said to DH, wonder if we're having a neighbor feud? Then, I heard the crackling. Fire. We got up and went out onto the deck and through the trees, across the road at the bottom of our mountain, saw a big fire raging. Could not tell if it was a mobile home, shed or brush fire but I think the first shotgun blast I heard was really something exploding. It sounded like when Tom put the wrong trash bag in our burn pit that contained empty spray foam cans in it, BOOM! Sounded like black powder gun blasts. And then the ambulance came and went right by the fire location and had to turn around, maybe missed the driveway, so I guess it was up off the road some, making it harder to guess what exactly was burning. Hope no one was hurt, but it made me remember the fire we had here a few years ago, very glad it was in the daytime, not in the middle of the night when we were sleeping.

 

[1muttsfan]

Hope everyone is OK

My rooster problem has been solved - they disappeared night before last, probable dinner for something

 

[speckledhen]

Hope everyone is OK

My rooster problem has been solved - they disappeared night before last, probable dinner for something

Sad. No rooster ought to have to fend for himself that way. It's a coward's way out of their rooster problem, to just dump them in unfamiliar territory that way.

 

[holm25]

Cyn thats scary!! Hope everyone is OK!


1MF I'm sorry to hear that. Its sad. People treat roosters like they r worthless and have no purpose... Its just too bad...

 

[1muttsfan]

They would not let me near them, wouldn't even come for food, but did not mind the dogs at all - figured it wouldn't take long.

 

[speckledhen]

Cyn thats scary!! Hope everyone is OK!


1MF I'm sorry to hear that. Its sad. People treat roosters like they r worthless and have no purpose... Its just too bad...

They would not let me near them, wouldn't even come for food, but did not mind the dogs at all - figured it wouldn't take long.

Better to have a quick death with the axe for dinner than to be frightened and torn apart by predators. I was lambasted here once when someone was angry that one of her roosters hurt another and she said she was going to take him up on some hill and just turn the offender loose in the woods. I expressed my opinion about that and you should have seen the anger and backpedaling.

 

[Peanutsmomma]

They would not let me near them, wouldn't even come for food, but did not mind the dogs at all - figured it wouldn't take long.

That breaks my heart.

It never ceases to amaze the amount of disrespect and unkindness that people can show to their animals. Poor roosters.

Last night was not good sleep. Finn was at the window constantly. About 2:30 a.m., I heard what sounded like a big shotgun blast. Then, spaced out, what sounded like smaller gunfire. Thought maybe someone was shooting coyotes or other predators. Then, sirens, coming very close and they stopped. I said to DH, wonder if we're having a neighbor feud? Then, I heard the crackling. Fire. We got up and went out onto the deck and through the trees, across the road at the bottom of our mountain, saw a big fire raging. Could not tell if it was a mobile home, shed or brush fire but I think the first shotgun blast I heard was really something exploding. It sounded like when Tom put the wrong trash bag in our burn pit that contained empty spray foam cans in it, BOOM! Sounded like black powder gun blasts. And then the ambulance came and went right by the fire location and had to turn around, maybe missed the driveway, so I guess it was up off the road some, making it harder to guess what exactly was burning. Hope no one was hurt, but it made me remember the fire we had here a few years ago, very glad it was in the daytime, not in the middle of the night when we were sleeping.

Holy Cow! What a night! It is crazy how my mind always goes to this, "Do you think it was a meth lab blowing up?" Our neighborhood is just a run of the mill average neighborhood with lots of retired people and one day last summer I was out in the yard and heard an explosion a few streets over. A few minutes later all of the police and firetrucks came flying into the neighborhood. As it turns out this guy had a meth lab set up in his elderly grandmother's storage building behind her house. He was supposed to be living there with her taking care of her but I guess he wanted to make some extra cash. Not only did he blow up the her shed but he caught the house behind her on fire because of the way the wind was blowing. Crazy stuff! Because his grandmother was house bound she had no idea all that was going on in her backyard.

 

[1muttsfan]

people

 

[speckledhen]

That breaks my heart.

It never ceases to amaze the amount of disrespect and unkindness that people can show to their animals. Poor roosters.



Holy Cow! What a night! It is crazy how my mind always goes to this, "Do you think it was a meth lab blowing up?" Our neighborhood is just a run of the mill average neighborhood with lots of retired people and one day last summer I was out in the yard and heard an explosion a few streets over. A few minutes later all of the police and firetrucks came flying into the neighborhood. As it turns out this guy had a meth lab set up in his elderly grandmother's storage building behind her house. He was supposed to be living there with her taking care of her but I guess he wanted to make some extra cash. Not only did he blow up the her shed but he caught the house behind her on fire because of the way the wind was blowing. Crazy stuff! Because his grandmother was house bound she had no idea all that was going on in her backyard.

I did immediately think about that. It came from the area of a house where a grumpy old man lives that once tried to actually punch out my husband over a pile of old pine tree saplings on the side of the power line easement road, long story, but I couldn't tell from the angle if it was his house or further down a bit. Meth is common around rural areas, drugs and theft and/or assault related to drugs are the most common crimes here, seems to me. I guess eventually we'll find out. We haven't gone off the property to investigate yet.