The Quack Shack

[Muscovy Wunda]

The coyote story continued today:
I was embarrassing hot outside today, but i really felt i had to do something outside. For my satisfaction and with the intention to show presence.
So i started to remove the shrubs around the pond, at the edge of the heavy overgrown part of the property. Three autumn olive's in, the duck alarm went off, i turned around and looked into the eyes of five skinny coyotes. I had just cut through the main shoot of a huge shrub, so i was sitting on the ground, literally eye to eye with the coyotes. The pond to the right hand, the next thorny autumn-olive in my back, Coyotes on two sides and worried about the ducks down at the house.
Usually my old bones have problems to get me back on my feet when i'm sitting on the floor, but this time somehow i jumped up...
Electric chainsaw in my left hand, machete swinging in my right i looked at them and said: »Bring it on!« - pulling the trigger of the chainsaw and made a step forward.
Apparently Coyotes are unable to smell "dirty" underwear, they got scared, turned around and fled the scene. Fortunately not into the direction of the house and the ducks.

Nothing happened to any duck today! - And they all got rewarded with peas and meal-worms. Without their alarm, this could have ended very different.

"Florida man fights off army of coyotes with chainsaw and machete"
(I know you aren't in Florida, but thats how the press will write it over here)

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Should see me hauling 25kg bags of feed. My poor back!

My back is still doing fine, but my knees…
And here the BOSS and cat-food comes in 30lbs bags.
Pellets and scratch is 40lbs.
I have recently changed to dump everything into trash-cans (new ones, of course!) and then hauling buckets to the duck house.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Thank you very much for that video-link.
I always wanted to have geese, so for now some goslings may arrive here next spring. Dunno what breed yet, still love the cotton-patch geese, but they might be too quiet and less aggressive.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

"Florida man fights off army of coyotes with chainsaw and machete"
(I know you aren't in Florida, but thats how the press will write it over here)

Well, five 'yotes i would not consider an army, but had they be more determined or desperate i might had to write this from a hospital bed…
My assumption is that the wild-life is getting more and more desperate here due to the drought. Its almost as bad as in Califoprnia, but nature here is not used to this. Even the well nourished tulip tree in the drain-field is showing signs of stress and has started to shed leaves. The second bloom of the autumn olives, usually in July/August was a no-show and there are no signs of any buds on these shrubs. The deer come here in broad day to drink from the duck's water bowls and won't leave when i step off the patio.

 

[igorsMistress]

Well, five 'yotes i would not consider an army, but had they be more determined or desperate i might had to write this from a hospital bed…
My assumption is that the wild-life is getting more and more desperate here due to the drought. Its almost as bad as in Califoprnia, but nature here is not used to this. Even the well nourished tulip tree in the drain-field is showing signs of stress and has started to shed leaves. The second bloom of the autumn olives, usually in July/August was a no-show and there are no signs of any buds on these shrubs. The deer come here in broad day to drink from the duck's water bowls and won't leave when i step off the patio.

This is so sad. I’m in AZ and there are organizations here that take water to the wildlife in areas where drought is a major problem. Wild horses have moved into the high country driving off the elk. It’s a mess all over.

 

[Canadian Wind]

My back is still doing fine, but my knees…
And here the BOSS and cat-food comes in 30lbs bags.
Pellets and scratch is 40lbs.
I have recently changed to dump everything into trash-cans (new ones, of course!) and then hauling buckets to the duck house.

Knees, back, hands, feet. Arthritis is taking over as well as old military injuries flaring up. I need to figure something out for the feed, right now the bags stay in the car until used.

Thank you very much for that video-link.
I always wanted to have geese, so for now some goslings may arrive here next spring. Dunno what breed yet, still love the cotton-patch geese, but they might be too quiet and less aggressive.

I got Pilgrim almost as an impulse. I'd been thinking Chinese but these were at a poultry sale I was vending at so got those, since I knew that they were 'colour coded' and could get a male and female. I wouldn't call them Guardian Geese though, they're not very aggressive, nor very loud, comparatively. Just do your research (as I'm sure you will!).

 

[Luv Ducks]

Thank you @Canadian Wind and @Miss Lydia . That's the old king of the castle on the photo as he already reached a respectable age. They are both Hovawarts, it's a German breed of very good homestead guard dogs that are not aggressive and are great with family. And they are treated and loved as family members.

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What Beautiful Dogs!!! So sorry for your loss.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Thank you very much for that video-link.
I always wanted to have geese, so for now some goslings may arrive here next spring. Dunno what breed yet, still love the cotton-patch geese, but they might be too quiet and less aggressive.

is the video about “guard “ geese? not working for me
so I don’t know what it’s saying, but if it says geese are good guards, they’re not guards they are alarms systems. They are as vulnerable to predators as any other poultry pretty much and they don’t fight a predator to save a duck or chicken they fight only for themselves and their own family, and they generally lose

 

[Luv Ducks]

That's fine, i have 40acres of land, and i could have the trees timbered. As long as they don't eat ducks.

So happy to hear that the ducks warned you. Sounds like maybe you should carry something that has bullets in it with you when you are outside from now on unless you are a poor aim.

 

[Supercow]

Knees, back, hands, feet. Arthritis is taking over

We feel the number as well.. It's like they say - getting old is no fun but it's better than the alternative.