The pullets are "helping" !

[RhodeIslandRed5]

Oh yes, I'm sure he has fun throwing jokes out there. Oh well, I get him back by threatening his precious ice cream and recliner.

 

[Henriettamom919]

Oh yes, he does help with them, I think that's why he's sick of them. He's a little tired of picking up supplies for them(I cannot lift those bags of shavings too well) and fixing up stuff for them. He wired up my old greenhouse frame as a daytime stay-in for my girls. He's also had to fix it up where I can easily pull up and down the tarps on it to keep it dry when it rains. He also added wheels to the frame so I can semi-easily push/pull it to fresher grass. My mother and I aren't handymen, so who else can we ask to build things?
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No, my step-dad isn't so much an animal person, unless it's dogs. He is a cityish guy- no gardening experience, no experience with animal pests coming in his yard... Gardening is MY thing.

So hopefully your husbands animal compassion is no longer negative five, I hope? Surely he likes your chickens?

Oh sure, now it's kind of whatever I want/need is what we do but when we met I had like a dozen cats, dogs, hamsters and parakeets combined

I cried over every thing my dogs killed (O'possum, raccoon, rabbits,etc.) and while I've hardened considerably he's softened

 

[RhodeIslandRed5]

You have my mom's personality on animals! She would take in everything she found, she tells me. Last week I caught this huge armadillo in my trap. I'd been after him a long time 'cause he'd dig under the fence and tear up the yard. I wanted to have it shot, but my mother, of course, felt sorry for it and forced me to release it elsewhere. (Far enough away where he can't return)

And your husband sounds like my step-dad: not an animal person, but let's Mom and have our way......because he knows better than to fight two women....

You said you still have cats and dogs. Do they not bother your chickens, or are they indoor pets?(the cats and dogs, I mean; not the chickens )

 

[ValerieJ]

You said you still have cats and dogs. Do they not bother your chickens, or are they indoor pets?(the cats and dogs, I mean; not the chickens )

As for me, my cats and dog are not allowed in the chicken pen, ever. I love them all, but I don't trust a single one around my chickens!

 

[Henriettamom919]

You have my mom's personality on animals! She would take in everything she found, she tells me. Last week I caught this huge armadillo in my trap. I'd been after him a long time 'cause he'd dig under the fence and tear up the yard. I wanted to have it shot, but my mother, of course, felt sorry for it and forced me to release it elsewhere. (Far enough away where he can't return)

And your husband sounds like my step-dad: not an animal person, but let's Mom and have our way......because he knows better than to fight two women....

You said you still have cats and dogs. Do they not bother your chickens, or are they indoor pets?(the cats and dogs, I mean; not the chickens )

As for me, my cats and dog are not allowed in the chicken pen, ever. I love them all, but I don't trust a single one around my chickens!

I have two cats and our dog of 16 years (here comes the emotional family dog tribute...) Passed away a year ago this past May. The dog, Nemo, would've been great with chickens, littles and big girls! He once brought me a crow with an injured wing and laid it gently at my feet. He helped raise and herd a litter of ten baby rabbits and took naps with mama bun on the couch. He was a puppy when we got him (my son was 2 at the time which is who named him "Nemo" ) but he was mature when I had my daughter and the most patient and amazing doggy parent a human could hope for. At fourteen years old he just ALLOWED my parents German shepherd to maul him to near death. Obviously we put the Shepherd down because there was NO warning; just snapped. Nemo was a pitbull mix and shattered every stereotype and raised a lot of awareness for people everywhere he went.

I have two cats, one six year old male and one three year old prissy female. Both are great but the female (Meepers) is "flock guardian" ; earlier in spring we had quite the rat and mouse explosion and she'd sit right near the littles coop and take down any who ventured inside the run. Even now she keeps a watch on them from a distance and chases off robins and blujays that wander too close. The littles actually follow her when an aerial predator comes near and she sits at the perimeter of wherever they hide under, watching the sky