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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Holy cow- that is one big and beautiful boy!

Thanks!

 

[Chickielady]

Heather show them the photos of Clarence. HE is the biggest boy. I need to trim and saddle the girls soon. But they mosy about and are so very quiet, huge birds !!
I also LOVE that monster Light Brahma you had.

 

[Rainwolf]

ok folks I'm going to submit my order with patriot farms tomorrow...
any more orders? auburn/pacific or northgate area drop sites..

* I got a little behind with yesterday's busy but catching up soon I hope!

 

[Chickielady]

OK I am off to take care of biz, and will try to log on later, amazing the computer seems lightening fast now, but can lock up at a moment's notice...

 

[Illia]

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Okay, I admit I may be the dough head here never actually having been to Forks although it's on my list of places I'd like to see some day.
In my head, I imagine it as somewhat "rural". Whatever that means to an individual is probably subjective.

Well, I guess I view rural as agricultural, but Forks is basically a logging town. It is tiny, spread down HWY 101, and has many roads that go off it and out into the woods towards other homes. I myself live about 13 miles west of Forks, deep in the woods. There is nothing agricultural or "rural" here except the harvesting of timber.

There are chicken owners here and there, but usually just people with a random sex link or two, or people with mutt bantams.

I did do two people some good favors though.

One lady got a rumpless, tufted Araucana cock from me, so next year she's going to have some tufted, rumpless, and green egg laying birds. . . Another lady got my 'ol Easter Egger cock last year, so she'll have some green egg layers, that is of course if her hens go broody or if she decides to buy an incubator. Seriously, she has black sex links and barred rocks. . . . $100 says she'll never see any offspring out of the EE. The thing that bothers me is that before the Easter Egger, I gave away a poor quality blue Ameraucana to her. . . She LOST him less than 12 hours later!!!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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In Washington is it legal to shoot dogs messing with your livestock?

Okay, I accidentally hit a button so I appologize if I double post this.....

We had a pack inialate an entire flock (including a 50-60 lb pet turkey). We where told by the Sherrif's office and the Department of Game and Wildlife to Shoot, Shovel, and Shut-up. This is referred here as the three S's. The next night we shot and killed 5 husky cross dogs. We later learned they had been tormenting the area and had hurt other pets and livestock. They had held their ground (uncornered) and groweled at my DH.

You have a right to protect your livestock. We had a pack of heelers (hate heelers) enter our pasture field - while my eldest son and my mother where changing sprinklers. They attacked (didn't hurt - but not for lack of trying) the two. My mother hit one with the "plug" that goes on the end of the pipes. My eldest quietly backed away and went and got dad......When dad got there the dogs had gone back to their property. Upon seeing my DH, they came back to our field. DH shot and killed one. The neighbor started screaming how we had shot her puppy. Called the police. The dog owner yelled at one of neighbors to "Lock up your cows"...."that crazy guy will shoot them".....The cow owner was our neighbor Paul...he yelled back at the dog owner: I hope he shoots and kills everyone of your darn dogs. Well, the police came. There were reports done....in the long and short of it....the dog owner got a big fat ticket for having a vicious dog. She later moved out (thank God).

We have probably shot nearly 10 (maybe more) dogs protecting livestock and pets while living here....we try to not kill...in fact if it is something minor I use my BB gun. I even shot one neighbor's dog with the pellet gun to get her off the street so she would not get hit by a car. People are idiots....and it is a shame....I don't want to shoot their dogs....but I will go to jail if I shoot all the idiot dog owners.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Not saying that anyone is going to enforce it.

Something tells me this qualifies in the Three S category.....just don't get caught or talk about it. They are probably protected somehow.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Heather, that is a gorgeous bird.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

what beautiful white birds you two have, Heather and CL. With all the mud out there how do they stay so clean? Your Roo, CL, looks very long legged and tall. Heather...your boy is all fluffy.

 

[Ogress]

Our irresponsible dog owner neighbor problems continue as well. Many of our neighbors just let their dogs run loose. A couple weeks ago I wrote that my DH got sick of the dogs tearing apart the garbage bags on trash day, so he dumped all our garbage out onto their driveway so the dogs would not get hurt crossing the street to get to our house. Well, last week when the cans were out, their next-door neighbors (another irrisponsible dog owner) swerved into our driveway and crashed into the garbage can, knocking it into the rock ditch (they had to go around the recycle bin which was in front of it on the street side). I intentionally left the can nearly emty, anticipating revenge. The only thing in it was 2 loads of tripple-bagged dirty kitty litter to weigh the can down. I had the big bag of garbage in my car to drop into the can on my way to work. The kitty litter stayed in the can, but the can has a big dent in it and a bunch of paint from their bumper! This neighbor has an annoying Jack Russel that used to run up and down the street everyday and into peoples yards barking its head off. They have been rather nasty ever since the new neighbor across from them complained to the HOA about their Jack Russel. She thinks it was me that complained because I'm always chasing that barking piece of c--- out of my yard. She accidentally ran over it the other month, now it hobbles around, and can't make it up the hill easily enough to bother coming up here anymore. I don't care if the dogs are out running around if the owners are also outside and the dogs are under voice control, but if they want their dogs to have access to the outdorrs when they are not with them, they need either to put them in a fenced area or install an invisible fence aound their property (I have done both for my dogs.)

I'm going to purchase 165' of electric mesh fence so I let my hens roam our front (unfenced) pasture while I am home. What size charger would people recommend to deter large dogs?