The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

With ice cream.

 

[pennyJo1960]

pie can always help

 

[microchick]

I hate those.....they always feel like heart streas tests. Blah!

So glad it had a happy ending.

This came after my favorite BO hen managed to slip between my legs and stage an escape....right smack dab into our hound mix boy who immediately thought OH BOY! DINNER! and grabbed himself a mouth full of feathers before I could descend upon him like all the furies of Hell combined into one 5'2" 130 pound red head. She wasn't hurt, thank God, just shaken up. Silly girl, but all sorts of very bad images kept dashing through my mind as I looked for that one missing youngster.

Yeah, almost makes me ask the doc for some nitro tabs....just incase.

As for Buck, he can't understand why he has been banned from anywhere near the coop. The remodeled shed that became my coop has an entranceway to it that stores our Diesel tank for the tractors fuel. That exterior wall is gone and an inner wall was built that became the coop. I just told DH that I thought it was time to screen in the outer wall and build a couple of wire doors. That dog knows that is the only part of my set up that isn't hot wired, mainly because it is solid metal sided walls on concrete. An extension of the hot wire should cure that little over sight.

 

[CapricornFarm]

This came after my favorite BO hen managed to slip between my legs and stage an escape....right smack dab into our hound mix boy who immediately thought OH BOY! DINNER! and grabbed himself a mouth full of feathers before I could descend upon him like all the furies of Hell combined into one 5'2" 130 pound red head. She wasn't hurt, thank God, just shaken up. Silly girl, but all sorts of very bad images kept dashing through my mind as I looked for that one missing youngster.

Yeah, almost makes me ask the doc for some nitro tabs....just incase.

As for Buck, he can't understand why he has been banned from anywhere near the coop. The remodeled shed that became my coop has an entranceway to it that stores our Diesel tank for the tractors fuel. That exterior wall is gone and an inner wall was built that became the coop. I just told DH that I thought it was time to screen in the outer wall and build a couple of wire doors. That dog knows that is the only part of my set up that isn't hot wired, mainly because it is solid metal sided walls on concrete. An extension of the hot wire should cure that little over sight.

I had a guinea keet escape the brooder and fly right past my Shepherds nose! Thought that bird was doomed, but i managed to catch it. Thanks goodness the guinea tractor is almost finished!

 

[microchick]

Yeah, I thought poor Aggie was a goner also. Luckily her feathers gave and I was able to chase Buck back to the house.

Since she is getting close to molt and is looking pretty raggedy anyway, no harm done. She is one of my girls though with ocular
Marek's so I'm not too happy about the stress she went through but she is a pretty tough little girl.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Moose took after a barred that had escaped he is the lab 85 lbs she was too fast I screamed he ran to me now he stays way away from birds

 

[getaclue]

I am soooooo glad I insisted on raising the coop area with sand, then fill dirt on that, BEFORE we built the coop. Saturday, and Sunday, our part of Florida got hit with a tropical storm. It dumped a LOT of water, in a short period of time, so there was quite a bit of flooding throughout the county.

This is what my back yard should look like:

This is what it looked like on Sunday, after all the rain:

The hose leading out from the house, is for draining the pool down. To give you a good idea on how much water we got in such a short period, if it rains hard for 6 hours, I normally drain the pool down once, maybe twice. I drained it down over 5 times during that short period of time. To the right of the burn pile, is a good sized pipe, which goes down to the creek. By the next morning, I had no standing water in my back yard.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Got boat?

 

[CapricornFarm]

Moose took after a barred that had escaped he is the lab 85 lbs she was too fast I screamed he ran to me now he stays way away from birds

I let the shepherd sniff them when i got them, so maybe she figures they are mine? She loves chasing wild birds. Hoping she won't pester chickens when i finally get some.

 

[perchie.girl]

I am soooooo glad I insisted on raising the coop area with sand, then fill dirt on that, BEFORE we built the coop. Saturday, and Sunday, our part of Florida got hit with a tropical storm. It dumped a LOT of water, in a short period of time, so there was quite a bit of flooding throughout the county.

This is what my back yard should look like:
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This is what it looked like on Sunday, after all the rain:
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The hose leading out from the house, is for draining the pool down. To give you a good idea on how much water we got in such a short period, if it rains hard for 6 hours, I normally drain the pool down once, maybe twice. I drained it down over 5 times during that short period of time. To the right of the burn pile, is a good sized pipe, which goes down to the creek. By the next morning, I had no standing water in my back yard.

Wow.....