YO GEORGIANS! :)
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After 2 years of trying I realize can't grow root vegetables 
Kale I can grow for 2 weeks before my chickens eat them all XD
Kale I can grow for 2 weeks before my chickens eat them all XD
nope sorry
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What kind of birds are they again?
brucifer
Songster
I'll be bringing good ol' apple-wood smoked Georgia pulled pork, slaw, and buns for everyone who attends, so if you can make an opening in your schedule...
I am a second grade teacher in Cobb county. I would like to purchase fertilized duck eggs to help teach life cycles to my second grade class. I am trying to find a company locally that I can purchase them from. Does anyone know of anyone or anywhere that sells fertilized duck eggs for purchase? I used chicken eggs last year, and this year would like to use duck eggs this year. Thank you.
today I opened my pallet coop and let the 9 chickens in there out to roam the yard a while. Nothing unusal there, I do occasionally let them out. The neighbors behind us across the road, have 4 dogs that are usually on a cable, so while I was out and doing some stuff outside, I noticed them running along my fence line, their focus clearly on the chickens roaming the yard. No one was at home, so there was no way to get them to gather the dogs back up again....
I yelled at the dogs once and they high tailed back across the road. Actually one of them stopped in the road and almost got hit by a car......I didn't pay any more attention to them, as they didn't seem to me to want to cross the road again.
I came back inside for a few minutes, and the lovely wife called out, "there's a chicken on the porch and a dog chasing it"...... so the dogs found the spot by the ditch they could get under. When I got outside, there were feathers everywhere, I could see a couple of chickens laying dead in the yard.....I had one of the pistols on my side, but I wasn't going to shoot toward the road. Two of the dogs ran back and crawled under, the last one turned toward me, bared it's teeth and growled, so I had no choice but to put it down.
now, having said that, I'd rather have whooped the owners butt instead of killing his dog for being a dog. These are the people we've helped with groceries, given food from the freezer, veggies from the garden, yes even eggs from the coop. yet they have collected 4 dogs to have to feed???? They're also the ones we had so much trouble with not staying out of our yard, which prompted the fence installation last summer....
I walked the yard, and found two of the 9 that weren't dead, but injured pretty badly. found 3 dead bodies, and no sign of any of the others other than the feathers everywhere. I called the county police, and by the time he got here, one of the neighbors was home, and already knew what happened because another neighbor who came out, told him. When the officer got there, the guy walked over to the fence. At this time, I thought I'd lost an AM/welsummer crossbreed, my last MFD Rooster, my RIR and Buff Orp that were the only two eggs that hatched from the egg swap at GAMs last year, and 4 purebred ameraucana pullets that were already being bred but not yet laying so they were close....so the guy starts in saying the dogs probably came around through the open gate (which I had to open for the police officers)....Officer Van Dyke then proceeded to tell the guy it wouldn't matter, even if there was no fence, I had the right to protect my yard and livestock from his dogs, and then turned and asked me if I wanted press charges and file a complaint to begin the process of him having to reimburse me for my chickens, (which he told the guy were worth anywhere from $20-$40 dollars each)...so the guy changed his tune. I told him no, I didn't expect them to be able to reimburse me, I didn't want them to have to pay a fine, that they can barely feed themselves, I just didn't want any trouble over killing his dog and I wanted the dead dog out of my yard....he was very agreeable, and took the dog with him as he left.
turns out Officer Van Dyke raises chickens, and rabbits. We talked quite a bit before he had to leave.
ok, a long post, but coming to an end.....sitting on the porch, and a blue ameraucana comes walking around the chicken coop......puzzled me to start with, then I realized I'd had one survive. I wasn't going to try to catch her, so I figured at dusk she'd be at the coop door wanting back in. I had the two injured cockerels back in the coop already.....so just before dark I go up there, and there are 5 chickens standing there, like 'why is the door shut'.... the RIR rooster, the buff orp and the other AM pullets! don't know where they were or how they got away, but I suspect they were up in the leyland cypress trees. The poor RIR rooster doesn't have any tail feathers left at all, but the rest of them looked fine. However, one of the 2 cockerels, the Welsummer/am mix was dead when I went back up there. Funny but those two don't have any real outward appearance of being injured other than a scrape and some missing feathers, it was almost as if they were just in shock from being traumatized.....
so no more letting any chickens out, fenced yard or not, until I get all the crawl through places fixed, oh, and reload
here's a pic of the RIR
I yelled at the dogs once and they high tailed back across the road. Actually one of them stopped in the road and almost got hit by a car......I didn't pay any more attention to them, as they didn't seem to me to want to cross the road again.
I came back inside for a few minutes, and the lovely wife called out, "there's a chicken on the porch and a dog chasing it"...... so the dogs found the spot by the ditch they could get under. When I got outside, there were feathers everywhere, I could see a couple of chickens laying dead in the yard.....I had one of the pistols on my side, but I wasn't going to shoot toward the road. Two of the dogs ran back and crawled under, the last one turned toward me, bared it's teeth and growled, so I had no choice but to put it down.
now, having said that, I'd rather have whooped the owners butt instead of killing his dog for being a dog. These are the people we've helped with groceries, given food from the freezer, veggies from the garden, yes even eggs from the coop. yet they have collected 4 dogs to have to feed???? They're also the ones we had so much trouble with not staying out of our yard, which prompted the fence installation last summer....
I walked the yard, and found two of the 9 that weren't dead, but injured pretty badly. found 3 dead bodies, and no sign of any of the others other than the feathers everywhere. I called the county police, and by the time he got here, one of the neighbors was home, and already knew what happened because another neighbor who came out, told him. When the officer got there, the guy walked over to the fence. At this time, I thought I'd lost an AM/welsummer crossbreed, my last MFD Rooster, my RIR and Buff Orp that were the only two eggs that hatched from the egg swap at GAMs last year, and 4 purebred ameraucana pullets that were already being bred but not yet laying so they were close....so the guy starts in saying the dogs probably came around through the open gate (which I had to open for the police officers)....Officer Van Dyke then proceeded to tell the guy it wouldn't matter, even if there was no fence, I had the right to protect my yard and livestock from his dogs, and then turned and asked me if I wanted press charges and file a complaint to begin the process of him having to reimburse me for my chickens, (which he told the guy were worth anywhere from $20-$40 dollars each)...so the guy changed his tune. I told him no, I didn't expect them to be able to reimburse me, I didn't want them to have to pay a fine, that they can barely feed themselves, I just didn't want any trouble over killing his dog and I wanted the dead dog out of my yard....he was very agreeable, and took the dog with him as he left.
turns out Officer Van Dyke raises chickens, and rabbits. We talked quite a bit before he had to leave.
ok, a long post, but coming to an end.....sitting on the porch, and a blue ameraucana comes walking around the chicken coop......puzzled me to start with, then I realized I'd had one survive. I wasn't going to try to catch her, so I figured at dusk she'd be at the coop door wanting back in. I had the two injured cockerels back in the coop already.....so just before dark I go up there, and there are 5 chickens standing there, like 'why is the door shut'.... the RIR rooster, the buff orp and the other AM pullets! don't know where they were or how they got away, but I suspect they were up in the leyland cypress trees. The poor RIR rooster doesn't have any tail feathers left at all, but the rest of them looked fine. However, one of the 2 cockerels, the Welsummer/am mix was dead when I went back up there. Funny but those two don't have any real outward appearance of being injured other than a scrape and some missing feathers, it was almost as if they were just in shock from being traumatized.....
so no more letting any chickens out, fenced yard or not, until I get all the crawl through places fixed, oh, and reload
here's a pic of the RIR
lilwildrabbit
Songster
I know the feeling there I had mine get attacked inside the run didn't catch the dogs and the animal controll here don't give a crap about chickens they said they looked but they didn't even drive around looking for them I'm glad you were lucky to have most survive it's hell to come out and find 3/4 of your flock dead in the run and the only way a dog g could get very n was someone letting them in through the door a dog couldn't open ittoday I opened my pallet coop and let the 9 chickens in there out to roam the yard a while. Nothing unusal there, I do occasionally let them out. The neighbors behind us across the road, have 4 dogs that are usually on a cable, so while I was out and doing some stuff outside, I noticed them running along my fence line, their focus clearly on the chickens roaming the yard. No one was at home, so there was no way to get them to gather the dogs back up again.... I yelled at the dogs once and they high tailed back across the road. Actually one of them stopped in the road and almost got hit by a car......I didn't pay any more attention to them, as they didn't seem to me to want to cross the road again. I came back inside for a few minutes, and the lovely wife called out, "there's a chicken on the porch and a dog chasing it"...... so the dogs found the spot by the ditch they could get under. When I got outside, there were feathers everywhere, I could see a couple of chickens laying dead in the yard.....I had one of the pistols on my side, but I wasn't going to shoot toward the road. Two of the dogs ran back and crawled under, the last one turned toward me, bared it's teeth and growled, so I had no choice but to put it down. now, having said that, I'd rather have whooped the owners butt instead of killing his dog for being a dog. These are the people we've helped with groceries, given food from the freezer, veggies from the garden, yes even eggs from the coop. yet they have collected 4 dogs to have to feed???? They're also the ones we had so much trouble with not staying out of our yard, which prompted the fence installation last summer.... I walked the yard, and found two of the 9 that weren't dead, but injured pretty badly. found 3 dead bodies, and no sign of any of the others other than the feathers everywhere. I called the county police, and by the time he got here, one of the neighbors was home, and already knew what happened because another neighbor who came out, told him. When the officer got there, the guy walked over to the fence. At this time, I thought I'd lost an AM/welsummer crossbreed, my last MFD Rooster, my RIR and Buff Orp that were the only two eggs that hatched from the egg swap at GAMs last year, and 4 purebred ameraucana pullets that were already being bred but not yet laying so they were close....so the guy starts in saying the dogs probably came around through the open gate (which I had to open for the police officers)....Officer Van Dyke then proceeded to tell the guy it wouldn't matter, even if there was no fence, I had the right to protect my yard and livestock from his dogs, and then turned and asked me if I wanted press charges and file a complaint to begin the process of him having to reimburse me for my chickens, (which he told the guy were worth anywhere from $20-$40 dollars each)...so the guy changed his tune. I told him no, I didn't expect them to be able to reimburse me, I didn't want them to have to pay a fine, that they can barely feed themselves, I just didn't want any trouble over killing his dog and I wanted the dead dog out of my yard....he was very agreeable, and took the dog with him as he left. turns out Officer Van Dyke raises chickens, and rabbits. We talked quite a bit before he had to leave. ok, a long post, but coming to an end.....sitting on the porch, and a blue ameraucana comes walking around the chicken coop......puzzled me to start with, then I realized I'd had one survive. I wasn't going to try to catch her, so I figured at dusk she'd be at the coop door wanting back in. I had the two injured cockerels back in the coop already.....so just before dark I go up there, and there are 5 chickens standing there, like 'why is the door shut'.... the RIR rooster, the buff orp and the other AM pullets! don't know where they were or how they got away, but I suspect they were up in the leyland cypress trees. The poor RIR rooster doesn't have any tail feathers left at all, but the rest of them looked fine. However, one of the 2 cockerels, the Welsummer/am mix was dead when I went back up there. Funny but those two don't have any real outward appearance of being injured other than a scrape and some missing feathers, it was almost as if they were just in shock from being traumatized..... so no more letting any chickens out, fenced yard or not, until I get all the crawl through places fixed, oh, and reloadhere's a pic of the RIR
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