The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[NagemTX]

There are days I play ring around the pen a few times. The other game is spraying the chicken out of the tree. The spraying game has gotten to where I pick up the sprayer and say get down and they come flying out of the tree.

 

[McChooky]

There are days I play ring around the pen a few times. The other game is spraying the chicken out of the tree. The spraying game has gotten to where I pick up the sprayer and say get down and they come flying out of the tree.

You go your bad self! The chicken whisperer!

 

[McChooky]

I tried that when I had goats. I got a mini donkey and apparently they also have to be raised around goats to protect them. That donkey hated the goats. She would round them up, run them into the pond and then not let them out.
So yeah that brilliant idea cost me more fencing, another shelter and a second donkey so the first one wouldn't be lonely.

I think he keeps the Billy goats and donkeys next to the woods. The females and babies are behind another fence

 

[KF0002]

My brother keeps donkeys in his goat and pony lots so the coyotes won't attack them. They hate a canine so he's never had a loss.

I tried to get a donkey once but the husband said no. Albeit was a mini donkey, but a donkey is a donkey, right? I have heard that donkeys and even alpacas can make good guardians for goats and sheep.

 

[KF0002]

Their holes can break a horse's legs for one thing.

Yes I was just thinking that gopher holes sound like a sprained ankle waiting to happen.

 

[KF0002]

Lol, I think everyone should of.
In other news I had to go to the big city (which is actually really a decent sized town on the outskirts of the city) but ya where you see the damnedest things.
A real live Tesla Truck pulling a beater trailer loaded with cr@p. Not like scrapper stuff but like landfill trash. Would that be some kind of oxymoron or just the regular type moron?
Wish I could have got a pic but I was driving and passed it going the other direction.

That's just a regular old moron I think.

 

[KF0002]

I don't have Gophers either. I assumed it was like those mole traps where when they hit the trigger spikes go jabbing into the ground and into the poor gophers.
I don't know much about gophers but I love the Go Go Gophers from my youth.

We don't have gophers either, to my knowledge. And the cat kills every mole it can find so I think we're good there. I didn't know a mole or gopher trap existed.

I feel like a "gopher" as a nurse most of the time. People think RN must stand for refreshments and narcotics. lol

 

[KF0002]

Got to pick up the boy but after I get back home I'll almost be ready to move a pack of cockerels to their new pen. Both pens are in the barn and the doors are about 12' apart. There's quite a few so thinking run some 48" plastic fence from one to the other making an aisle way.
Surely I'll just be able to herd them straight across without incident right?

That will be as easy as pulling chicken teeth. lol

 

[KF0002]

Well that went about as good as expected. I figured there would be pandemonium as chickens went over the fence in all directions.
Got it all set up both doors opened. Went in the pen and started pushing them that direction. They didn't do too bad and the majority of them went out the door and straight across the aisle. A few scragglers got confused and I had to straighten them out and get them on their way. About time I got the last ones out the door I saw many of them already going into the other pen. No flyers at all.
Guess they got a little nervous at the new pen and going through the door. They started to bottle neck. Probably a third of them were in but by the time probably the second third or more made it in the ones in the back panicked and turned around to run back to their original pen.
I was coming through the doorway so I met them in the aisle and tried to turn them. They dashed to one side to get by and I threw a leg out to block them. That sent them wide to the other side to squeeze through there. I tried to block them with that foot and was successful has about half turned and headed for the new pen.
In the process I may have lost my balance and I may have slightly stepped on one which may have sent me crashing into the corner of the pen. My head might have bounced off the corner as I crashed in the ground.
None got by so I quickly started grabbing them and tossing them down the aisle to the other doorway. Luckily most hit the ground and ran right in and the ones that turned back I quickly caught and repeated the process. Got them all in and the door shut. Got blood on my shirt so decided to go have the boy check my injuries. After a thorough examination and a round or two of do you want the bad news or the good news I believe I just slightly cut my ear in a few places and one small scratch on my jaw from the edge of the chicken wire on the pen.
I'll call that a success and sfter a quick break go evaluate the chickens.
I sure hope no one's guts are hanging out so I don't have to poke them back in and see a chicken back up.

I hope you have had your tetanus vaccine! Glad you got that done nearly unscathed.

And glad to hear no chickens were harmed. lol

 

[KF0002]

Mebbe I won't go into the chickening bizness after all. I'm right partial to my ears and chin.

I stay scratched up because of chickens or turkeys and/or wire. I advocate strongly for the tetanus vaccine. Chickening is not for the faint of heart. The only black eye I have ever had came from a chicken when I was a kid. A broody hen came out of a nest and flogged me in the face.

Chickens are wonderful and I love chickens. But they are also brutal and vicious at the same time. lol