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

[holm25]

Hopefully those dogs stay away!!

 

[speckledhen]

It's cool that you can see what's going on around your property. Makes me want to get a game camera.

We're remodeling our chicken house. Much more fun than doing anything to our own house, haha!

I want several actual security cameras in strategic places, too. Will be doing that as soon as I can get up the $$ for it. I posted that on a yard sale site for the local area. The first response was:

Quote: Um, no. NO. Not grabbing a strange dog, especially one running with other dogs. Not my responsibility to keep track of someone's dog for them and risk being bitten. Second, I plain don't care if they're "hunting dogs". I make no exception. I have NO HUNTING and NO TRESPASSING and PRIVATE PROPERTY signs around the property for a reason. No one, nor their dogs, have permission to cross over my land for any purpose, especially hunting. We already came within 20' of being shot by a stupid neighbor while standing near the pear trees in our own yard.

When I was taking photos of the Brahmas, snapped one of Apollo, Athena and Zara.




....aaaand, it's on the bed! FINALLY! And it's still fall, too, haha.

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, Hector was carrying on about nothing when we were about to lock up the barn so DH went into his pen to calm him down. Hector jumped onto the floor, then when I patted the top of the nests, he jumped up there, whereupon, DH picked him up and I checked his backside. He does seem to actually have a rump/tailbone and I think there are tail feathers coming in, albeit VERY slowly. Didn't want to keep holding him too long since he was getting antsy. So, we all wait with bated breath to see what he, hopefully, will be showing us soon.


As my son called it when visiting from S. Korea about a year and a half ago, Chicken Music, featuring Hector and Apollo. No video, just early morning audio coming off the baby monitor in the coop.

 

[1muttsfan]

Eine kliene Nachtmusik

 

[speckledhen]

Eine kliene Nachtmusik

Ah, a little night music! Well, it was early morning, but dark anyway. Not exactly melodic.


I've started on my next project, a "wubbie" quilt. Remember Mr. Mom? That's the first time I heard that term. It's going to be a snuggly lap quilt in earth tones. This 24" square will be the star, no pun intended, of the quilt, placed off-center (I think, but may change my mind).

 

[speckledhen]

What is wrong with people? This lady apparently believes I can read a tag on a collar of a dog who was here three days ago that I didn't see with my own eyes, only on game cam. So typical, this response, though.@Cetawin check out this woman's response. She's not playing with a full deck, methinks.

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Here was my actual post. I thought it was pretty controlled, actually:


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What part does she not get? Um, this is trying to find the owners. I don't have the dogs, didn't even catch them with my own eyes. And what's up with bringing trespassing humans into the picture? They can read the signs. Dogs cannot. I have ZERO tolerance for roaming dogs, but I didn't shoot the pretty little blue tick beagle who squeezed through the larger openings in the livestock fencing a few years ago. It's like folks think you're just blasting away at anything that crosses the property. How about some logic? Sheesh.

 

[GingersHuman]

It's because people have no logic these days, nor common sense. I thought your original dog post was very calm and to the point (if you let your dogs roam they may not come back, but if they got out somehow, they were here) sounds pretty reasonable to me. Unfortunately I have to deal with my grandparent's dog, who has injured my cats before, and would kill my chickens. That's what happens when you don't train your dog. We got our dog as an adult from the shelter, and after training, he will calmly lay in the chicken pen with the chickens pecking and laying around him. Rant over, sorry!

 

[speckledhen]

It's because people have no logic these days, nor common sense. I thought your original dog post was very calm and to the point (if you let your dogs roam they may not come back, but if they got out somehow, they were here) sounds pretty reasonable to me. Unfortunately I have to deal with my grandparent's dog, who has injured my cats before, and would kill my chickens. That's what happens when you don't train your dog. We got our dog as an adult from the shelter, and after training, he will calmly lay in the chicken pen with the chickens pecking and laying around him. Rant over, sorry!

Thank you for that. I thought it was fairly straightforward. She did make me think. Do I have an actual responsibility to catch dogs and/ or notify the owners about the dogs being loose on my property? There's nothing written in the law that says I do. There is, however, a written ordinance, both for this county and our state, that says I have the right to shoot dogs harassing/killing livestock and/or poultry (GA separates livestock from poultry in the wording). So, the entire responsibility is on the dog owners to contain the dogs on their own property. I am so tired of saying that.

She really wanted me to go up to these huge, strange dogs and grab a collar? Then what? Providing I am not bitten in the process, I should then put them inside my fence where I don't want them to be to keep them here while I located the owners? Yup, no logic there. The most I'd do is call Animal Control to get them, but they won't come unless I have the dog or a dog is injured and stationary so they can get it. But, I don't even have a responsibility to do that much. And how can I do any of that when the game camera caught them here THREE DAYS AGO? Good grief. Folks are lucky I even posted anything. I just figured even if the owner didn't belong to the yard sale group, someone in there may know the dogs and owner and notify him/her.

 

[speckledhen]

Son of a gun, they were just here again! Grrrrrrrr. Betting someone is just letting them run and they may just lose them. They are most definitely in danger on my property. A real shame because I love dogs.


Game cam caught them on my property again. They are very interested in something on it, maybe my cat, maybe deer. This was AFTER I came face to face with he black one across the power line easement that borders one side of my land and chased him and his brindle friend away. Decided to check the game camera and found they'd been here before we went outside. If they come upon my cat out there or see chickens in a group free ranging, they could scale the fence with not much trouble, as big as they are.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

You might need to run a strand of electric fence, nothing more satisfying than watching them get zapped, they will probably never return. That would make me very nervous having those dogs coming around.