my dogs would've been loose and in someone else's yard!!! This isn't really about a predator or a pest, though he was making a pest of himself.
My son comes in and tells me that one of our dinners (roosters) is in the pen with our dogs. Our dogs are always penned up. Always!! I told him that I'd come and see if I could get it or if it could get itself out. Our dogs are a bird trained labrador and a blue heeler/border collie cross.
My husband went out the door first because I had to get my shoes on and I see him carrying this chicken by it's feet and it looks horrible. I thought that it had to be dead for sure. DH carries it off somewhere, I thought to dispose of it, and I asked him what did he do with the dead body. He said it wasn't dead so he just threw it in our first chicken pen.
I told him you can't do that they'll just kill it if it was hurt bad enough.
So I go into my pen and pick up this beraggled rooster, guess what? It is NOT one of mine!!! I now have a mostly featherless and definitely bruised up rooster that isn't mine in with MY chickens. I hope like heck it doesn't have any diseases.
Now we have the trespassing rooster in a cage with food and water. It did not seem to have any bleeding wounds, just bruises and scrapes. Plus it is nearly naked. I'll take pics tomorrow. I have no idea whose rooster it is or why it chose to go into my dogs pen. Heck, so far none of my chickens have been that stupid. Was it trying to commit suicide or what? JK So the poor hurt rooster has definitely made a pest of hisself! I guess I'll try and find his owner tomorrow. I feel horrible that it got hurt, however it was trespassing in my dogs pen. I hope it makes it and I soooo hope that it did not belong to a child. If it belongs to a kiddo, I might just have to offer them a dinner (rooster) with a stern warning about taking care of their rooster.
My son comes in and tells me that one of our dinners (roosters) is in the pen with our dogs. Our dogs are always penned up. Always!! I told him that I'd come and see if I could get it or if it could get itself out. Our dogs are a bird trained labrador and a blue heeler/border collie cross.
My husband went out the door first because I had to get my shoes on and I see him carrying this chicken by it's feet and it looks horrible. I thought that it had to be dead for sure. DH carries it off somewhere, I thought to dispose of it, and I asked him what did he do with the dead body. He said it wasn't dead so he just threw it in our first chicken pen.
So I go into my pen and pick up this beraggled rooster, guess what? It is NOT one of mine!!! I now have a mostly featherless and definitely bruised up rooster that isn't mine in with MY chickens. I hope like heck it doesn't have any diseases.
Now we have the trespassing rooster in a cage with food and water. It did not seem to have any bleeding wounds, just bruises and scrapes. Plus it is nearly naked. I'll take pics tomorrow. I have no idea whose rooster it is or why it chose to go into my dogs pen. Heck, so far none of my chickens have been that stupid. Was it trying to commit suicide or what? JK So the poor hurt rooster has definitely made a pest of hisself! I guess I'll try and find his owner tomorrow. I feel horrible that it got hurt, however it was trespassing in my dogs pen. I hope it makes it and I soooo hope that it did not belong to a child. If it belongs to a kiddo, I might just have to offer them a dinner (rooster) with a stern warning about taking care of their rooster.
