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The rain just makes him wet: I'm getting scars from having to disentangle him from the blackberries he's supposed to be eating up.

You need GOATS not sheep.
Sheep get stuck & will stay there until they die.
Goats are what ya need.

I disagree! She needs my sisters horse Lacy! She's a much better goat than any goat Ive had! lol She eats EVERYTHING! Black berries, ferns, tiny locust trees, my FRUIT trees!!!
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Except that horses are serious money-suckers and wreck land like you can't believe.
 
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You need GOATS not sheep.
Sheep get stuck & will stay there until they die.
Goats are what ya need.

I disagree! She needs my sisters horse Lacy! She's a much better goat than any goat Ive had! lol She eats EVERYTHING! Black berries, ferns, tiny locust trees, my FRUIT trees!!!
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If I wanted that level of service, I'd just close the driveway gate, open the pasture gate, and let the bull, fifteen cows, and thirteen calves out.

Two eggs zipped, three more pipped, and the first load of other people's clothing in the washer preparatory to getting the hall bathroom less horrendous (last use as isolation room for the kittens when they were tiny, OH ICK!!!!!
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I disagree! She needs my sisters horse Lacy! She's a much better goat than any goat Ive had! lol She eats EVERYTHING! Black berries, ferns, tiny locust trees, my FRUIT trees!!!
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If I wanted that level of service, I'd just close the driveway gate, open the pasture gate, and let the bull, fifteen cows, and thirteen calves out.

Two eggs zipped, three more pipped, and the first load of other people's clothing in the washer preparatory to getting the hall bathroom less horrendous (last use as isolation room for the kittens when they were tiny, OH ICK!!!!!
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Im getting to the point where I no longer enjoy haveing the horses around. To much stress and absolutely no gain. Im not riding, as a matter of fact, NOBODY is riding... Im starting to not see the point of having them at all. Been concidering selling my 3 year old filly... But who on earth is gonna want to take in a green 3 year old? Lacy, Teagan, and Red are not my horses, they are just here. And I look back, and I really cant remember how I wound up with the horses here in the first place..
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I keep going back and forth on wether or not I want to keep my little Prada, she's such a love and oh so easy to train, but I really am not that big into riding, and have no trainer to teach her to drive... I dont know... Maby its just the horemones that are makeing me second guess everything...
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Its so frustrating at times, but then there are times where I couldnt emagine the horses not being here... Im just so back and forth about it all the time, it drives me nutts.
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And once again, for people keeping records, the first egg to hatch is a very eye-linered chipmunk striped chick from one of Christina's eggs.

I sense a pattern...
 
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GSPs are OK with lower temps than their coat might indicate as long as they have somewhere out of the rain and up a little off the ground; certainly October in Western Washington is fine, as long as she is fed enough. Not that she should be suddenly an outside-sleeping dog, but three or four hours on a dry afternoon will make her less troublesome in the house, too.

I should introduce Abby, who lives next door and prefers to sleep in a dog house on the porch there unless it drops below 20F.

ABOUT BARKING: in my experience, the best way to train a dog out of barking for attention is to praise them when they stop and ignore them when they're doing that horrible high pitched "you WILL pay attention to me" pointless bark. It also works for puppies crying, but I'd recommend getting a lot of sleep the week before you get the pup. All sorts of animal training works best with positive feedback, in my experience.

exactly -- I learned, several dogs back -- LOL -- to ignore attention-getting barking (but DH yells at her, which is counterproductive, I tell him she thinks he is barking back at her)

however, nonstop barking might well annoy the neighbors ... and Roxy can and will keep it up for hours at a time, punctuated by very loud whining
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(she has learned, though, that barking after we have closed the bedroom door on her for the night, doesn't buy her anything, and that's diminished to about 5 minutes of complaint)

Roxy has been used to being indoors almost all the time, she doesn't like getting her feet wet or cold (potty trips outside have been very very short if she has any say in it); so she hasn't yet grown a winter coat ... you can see pink skin right through her white coat .... the weather changed dramatically in a very short period, and I notice the cats haven't gotten their winter undercoats yet either, though they are out almost all day and half the night
 
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GSPs are OK with lower temps than their coat might indicate as long as they have somewhere out of the rain and up a little off the ground; certainly October in Western Washington is fine, as long as she is fed enough. Not that she should be suddenly an outside-sleeping dog, but three or four hours on a dry afternoon will make her less troublesome in the house, too.

I should introduce Abby, who lives next door and prefers to sleep in a dog house on the porch there unless it drops below 20F.

ABOUT BARKING: in my experience, the best way to train a dog out of barking for attention is to praise them when they stop and ignore them when they're doing that horrible high pitched "you WILL pay attention to me" pointless bark. It also works for puppies crying, but I'd recommend getting a lot of sleep the week before you get the pup. All sorts of animal training works best with positive feedback, in my experience.

exactly -- I learned, several dogs back -- LOL -- to ignore attention-getting barking (but DH yells at her, which is counterproductive, I tell him she thinks he is barking back at her)

however, nonstop barking might well annoy the neighbors ... and Roxy can and will keep it up for hours at a time, punctuated by very loud whining
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(she has learned, though, that barking after we have closed the bedroom door on her for the night, doesn't buy her anything, and that's diminished to about 5 minutes of complaint)

Roxy has been used to being indoors almost all the time, she doesn't like getting her feet wet or cold (potty trips outside have been very very short if she has any say in it); so she hasn't yet grown a winter coat ... you can see pink skin right through her white coat .... the weather changed dramatically in a very short period, and I notice the cats haven't gotten their winter undercoats yet either, though they are out almost all day and half the night

Yeah, but if she's not outside some she'll never get a winter coat.

Dogs are trainable; husbands not so much.
 
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yay yay, go chickies
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too bad Christina has apparently quit laying -- none from her in four days now; same for Deirdre and Anitra; just one egg yesterday (from Phoebe)

Becky and Ginger have been regular up til yesterday, I dunno
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haven't been out yet this morning to check, was bad enough opening the coop door and refilling the feeder ... darned Roopert wanted to KILL me ... even pinning down his neck with Y shaped branch, didn't seem to faze him ... if the girls are molting and not laying, he either goes into isolation or goes ... elsewhere ...

too bad because he IS gorgeous

I'll try raising the preferred nest box a little bit off the coop floor, with some mylar-and-bubblepack insulation underneath, and adding more nesting material, see if it's just a little bit too chill in there for their fowly tastes ...

may have to figure out how to warm the coop up a bit too, at nights; maybe the weather will stay just at light-frost overnights until Julia is done with the radiant heater; I do have a spare oil filled heater, would have to figure out how to keep it free of poo though -- Roopert has a tendency to dig through what falls to the sandy floor, and he kicks it HIGH
 
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