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[Rare Feathers Farm]

darn dogs....I threw some leftovers into one of the runs last night and Cash tore a hole in the Sussex run to eat the scraps....of course, he didn't bother any of the chickens....but they are all loose--so I have to juggle herding chickens and the baby....ughhh....I think I need to invest in electric wire around my runs.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Or feed the dog so he doesn't have to steal from the chooks !

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

It gets worse....Cash tore a HUGE hole in the Sumatra pen too--so one hen and the rooster were both out, wandering the yard. Then he ripped from the Sumatra into the Creve pen--so one Sumatra hen was in there with the Creves, beating the crap out of everyone and getting bred by the rooster.

Clara, the Light Sussex was out too. I did not see the Sumatra rooster breeding her but I have to assume it happened.

So now I have no purebred eggs from the Sussex or Sumatra pen for the next month at least.

I owe someone Sumatra eggs from 9/5 that I haven't shipped yet because they are all molting and I haven't gotten an egg from them in over a month.

So I might have to refund her money.

This is the second time he's done this--and DH wants to shoot him with a pellet gun...but it's always at night and we never catch him doing it.

I fed out the scraps about 5pm and then we (dogs included) went on a 2 mile walk to give the chickens time to eat. We fed the dogs as soon as we got back home and Cash finished his dinner....honestly, I don't think he got anything because the chickens cleaned it up pretty good--but he must have smelled it.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I did a really ghetto patch job on them--and ended up moving a water platform over the top of the one of the holes for now--I have a spare roll of wire but no time at the moment to measure, cut and fix it...Audrey is wide awake in her swing but at least not screaming at the moment.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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Don't ya have elec fence somewhere for other critters like horses that you could just tap into.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Don't ya have elec fence somewhere for other critters like horses that you could just tap into.

Yeah...but I'd have to run it quite a ways...and figure out how to drive around/over/under it....but at this point it would be worth it to see him bite down on a hot wire!

You can see in these pics how far away the fence is (you can see the horse shelter in the background):

My coop does not have electricity in it but at the pole next to the round pen so I run an extension cord from there and into the coop.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

WOW I it's amazing that ya got snow already !!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Cool!

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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LOL No....that's an old pic!

It's supposed to be close to 80 here today....and then cool off and rain for 4-5 days.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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I forgot how destructive young dogs can be; let this be a lesson to me et'c and so on.

Julia, I'm saving up for a solar fence-charger, myself.