Not funny, I have 1 all the time........and long guns in the house...maybe that is why no one ever sucks off me anymore. ?
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Probably not. I don't have sufficient means to prevent my son from playing with guns so I don't have any.
I prefer my .40. Enough to make most of the crazies stay down if it's needed (hopefully never is), but small enough to fit in my small hands well. The dogs go off when someone comes in the gate and just the fact that the german shepherd sounds aggressive is usually enough to keep suspicious people who park on the road out front from staying. We used to have a lot of trouble with that at night. Athena hears them, I can still see them even though they think they parked where no one can. I started going out and spotlighting them. Some times of that and there haven't been any more issues so it must have been the same people. My neighbor across the road had to escort some people off his place one night and the cops came and got them. That was the year before we moved here. It's been nice he says since we moved in and the house next to him sold that same year (owned by same people). I'm pretty sure they are the ones that robbed us. Now there is a k-9 cop living just down the road.
I always have the dogs with me. Both are pretty big stalkers and keep an eye on me since the buck tried to take me out.
Flockraiser for everyone. All Flock is only 18%. Sometimes if I can get a really good deal on the All Flock I'll get that mix half with Game Bird feed. I've been having issues so everyone that can eat it is getting a little bit of Calf Mana lately. They love the stuff so it's instead of scratch. I've tried lots of different foods and use what makes my flock healthiest and lay best. My egg customers don't care about organic. I'll never use the Scratch and Peck again though. Horrible issues with it and it's low protien. They did not want to eat the dust that is the protein and vitamins. I tried several ways to get them to do it. 4 months of that stuff and the egg production went down to 0. I just quit it and gave them some of my scratch mix (there is 14 different things in it) until I got back to the store, which apparently is better stuff because they started laying again after a few days. They were on Payback All Purpose (19%) for a while after that and came fully back to production. The Flockraiser just has done the best for my birds. Oystershell on the side.
I've really thought about fermenting feed. Bumps that nutrition. They do get Kefir occasionally. It's hilarious when they see that stuff. I didn't know chickens could actually lick bowls clean by scraping their beaks sideways .
I've been sick (still am). Not much reading or posting for me.
Lost one ameraucana chick to neurological issues. The other nine are doing great with mama.
The little fluffy yellow cheeks on the wheatens are so cute.
Lost one ameraucana chick to neurological issues. The other nine are doing great with mama.
The little fluffy yellow cheeks on the wheatens are so cute.
ChickieLady...no, I'm not sure I know that song. Who sings it? What is the title of the song? My husband and I really like bluegrass. He plays the mandolin & banjo.
Sounds like several of you need to move to a better neighborhood. Our neighbor got broken into about a month ago...it was in broad daylight, too. Since then, we make sure our doors are all locked up tight even though we live in a semi-rural area. I used to sleep with my loaded shotgun under my bed at nights, but now that we live so close to our daughter & their kids, I've got it locked up in the gun case. I just won't take a chance with a loaded gun and 4 grandsons ages 8, 9, 10, & 11. There is too great a chance of mishap. I still feel safer knowing they are in the house. Then we have two dogs who make a racket if they hear a noise.
Sounds like several of you need to move to a better neighborhood. Our neighbor got broken into about a month ago...it was in broad daylight, too. Since then, we make sure our doors are all locked up tight even though we live in a semi-rural area. I used to sleep with my loaded shotgun under my bed at nights, but now that we live so close to our daughter & their kids, I've got it locked up in the gun case. I just won't take a chance with a loaded gun and 4 grandsons ages 8, 9, 10, & 11. There is too great a chance of mishap. I still feel safer knowing they are in the house. Then we have two dogs who make a racket if they hear a noise.
Oh I TOTALLY want to move to a better neighborhood. But right now this is where I need to be. I live in Tacoma near the Emerald Queen Casino. I hate it here, mostly because I hate being in the city. Over the past few years I've lived between Graham, Buckley and Eatonville. I moved here because I needed a jump start, and I have it. In a few years we'll be working on buying our first house. By few years I mean sometime between now and when I die
It's not to bad here now. I've talked to a LOT of the neighbors and the story is the same from all of them. The people who lived here before us were tweakers. The gun by the back door is for coyotes.
We're out in the country. The nearest house is the one across the road catty corner. I think it's about 1000 feet. As much as my husband doesn't care for the wetland aspect, that huge pond on the neighbors property means no houses close to our side property line ever. The one behind is a quarter mile or so away. We go back quite a ways, and their house isn't anywhere near that property line. Other side is a railroad track that very rarely has a train. I can count on one hand the trains in the last two years, and they are always the cool old ones on the tours.
We lived in the apartment from HELL for a year back in Norfolk Virginia. Only place we could get cheap enough on short notice. Most the people around were tweakers and prostitutes. They busted three of the houses right behind our place several times, and a few of the apartments. Shootings every night. That actually is not an exaggeration. We slept on the floor on the mattress. It was a brick building so that was safest. Gun by our heads loaded and ready. We were left alone for the most part because the neighbors were all terrified of the schipperke dogs we had. Would move way out of the way when I was walking them. I still can't figure that one out fully since they are only about 18 pounds. Might be the black and spitz shape.
dumpling is getting big, is so laid back my other half has been holding and handling him and has gained more confidence and is starting to handle the chicks more now...
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Yes, I agree with everyone else so far - some sort of protection is needed. We moved here from a crappy border town in AZ and had so many problems in our first apartment, it was ridiculous. Between reporting neighbors for animal abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, and having my car broken into twice we were very much over it. When we moved out of there to a house in the same town, we got a doberman, hubby got a rifle, and I got a 9mm lol. Where we live now, even though we have a lot of neighbors, just FEELS so much safer (and is, looking at crime reports and talking to neighbors). We still have all the goodies, but keep everything except for hubby's .40 in the safe and let the dobie do the scaring for us. Whenever we take him for a walk, or take him outside, people cross the street and do everything they can to avoid him. Poor guy, he's the biggest smush known to man, only barks at the door because he's excited and wants to play with anyone coming in hahaha
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