frustratedearthmother
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OUCH! I looked like that allll over today, lol! And, smelled like piggy mud - ugh.... I like your pens - are they all getting hoop tops?
FergusonK's journal - Goodbye Java Jewel.
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Ferguson K
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They are all getting hoop tops.
I will be wrapping the pens with hardware cloth on the top and chicken wire around the pallets.
@Bruce the way I see it, if a predator gets through the dogs it deserves the bird it claimed.
The Ayam Cemani will be going in coop Knox though. Don’t want to even RISK it with them. To rare. To expensive.
Created Cream Legbar, Lakenvelder, Kraienkoppe, and SSH are in pretty tight pens. They’re rare too. The Java’s are secured behind chainlink, critically endangered species deserve all the chances they can get st survival.
My Java’s:
I will be wrapping the pens with hardware cloth on the top and chicken wire around the pallets.
@Bruce the way I see it, if a predator gets through the dogs it deserves the bird it claimed.
The Ayam Cemani will be going in coop Knox though. Don’t want to even RISK it with them. To rare. To expensive.
Created Cream Legbar, Lakenvelder, Kraienkoppe, and SSH are in pretty tight pens. They’re rare too. The Java’s are secured behind chainlink, critically endangered species deserve all the chances they can get st survival.
My Java’s:
Baymule
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Your website looks good. The white lettering is a little hard for me to read. I'm old, LOL I like black print.....BIG and easy to read. 
the font size is good. On the Australorps, you have Austria as country of origin. I thought it was Australia?
I wish you the best with your poultry. Poultry is your first love and it is nice to see you get back to the birds you love so much.
the font size is good. On the Australorps, you have Austria as country of origin. I thought it was Australia? I wish you the best with your poultry. Poultry is your first love and it is nice to see you get back to the birds you love so much.
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Ferguson K
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@Baymule hey we met because of Poultry!
Your girls aren’t with me anymore. Lost the last one of them over the summer. Not sure where she went.
You’re also right. Aussies are Australian.
Your girls aren’t with me anymore. Lost the last one of them over the summer. Not sure where she went.
You’re also right. Aussies are Australian.
Pastor Dave
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Blame it on the predictatext. Austria, Australia. Might even try to text Atrium. Who knows?
misfitmorgan
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Hmm it looked ok on my phone but i dunno exactly what your wanting
It looks fine on my phone but i dunno what your wanting it to look like per say. Everything seems in place and easily readable on the mobile.
The coops look like they are coming along great!! I always thought about doing pallet stuff but DH is pretty against it.....he works at a pallet shop.
It looks fine on my phone but i dunno what your wanting it to look like per say. Everything seems in place and easily readable on the mobile.
The coops look like they are coming along great!! I always thought about doing pallet stuff but DH is pretty against it.....he works at a pallet shop.
Bruce
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Ah yes, I forgot you have multiple dogs. The "active" protection against ground predators that get through the fence (if they are so stupid as to do so).
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Ferguson K
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Funny story on the predator thing, and I have several.
A few weeks back I was feeding in the dark and on the phone with @samssimonsays . There was this ungodly screaming sound (from the chickens) and I hurriedly hung up on her to go find out what it was.
I had 5 dogs in tow who were immediately off to the sound of the screams.
Before I could cross the yard they had reached the scene of the crime. A raccoon had pulled the wire back and was pulling a chicken out. Chicken was dead (head ripped off). Sully grabbed it and crunched it like a bad of potatoe chips before it had time to react to the rapidly approaching dogs. They then took turns shredding the poor thing. All that was left was some fur and teeth when Connie and Maddie were done with it.
Good dogs.
Called Sam back and promptly sent her a picture of the raccoons remains.
Finished feeding and went inside.
There has only been one time when I was out in the dark feeding that I did not feel comfortable, and that was because the dogs were off barking at something in the property behind the house. I heard the dogs get into a fight with whatever it was and heard lots of ripping and roaring with what was followed by what I would call a banshee cry. I do believe the dogs got into it with a cat, and I’m not talking to house cat or a bobcat. The two dogs that were with me that we’re not LGD’s ran back for the house and whined, wanting back inside. I took that as my cue to go inside and grab the gun but by the time I came back out with the spotlight the three heroes we’re back on the front porch satisfied that they had gotten rid of the predator.
I didn’t feel comfortable outside for days after that. Always felt watched and the dogs stayed on high alert.
Eventually whatever it was moved on and all was calm in the world again.
But yes. I have a lot of dogs. I don’t even want to count them.
A few weeks back I was feeding in the dark and on the phone with @samssimonsays . There was this ungodly screaming sound (from the chickens) and I hurriedly hung up on her to go find out what it was.
I had 5 dogs in tow who were immediately off to the sound of the screams.
Before I could cross the yard they had reached the scene of the crime. A raccoon had pulled the wire back and was pulling a chicken out. Chicken was dead (head ripped off). Sully grabbed it and crunched it like a bad of potatoe chips before it had time to react to the rapidly approaching dogs. They then took turns shredding the poor thing. All that was left was some fur and teeth when Connie and Maddie were done with it.
Good dogs.
Called Sam back and promptly sent her a picture of the raccoons remains.
Finished feeding and went inside.
There has only been one time when I was out in the dark feeding that I did not feel comfortable, and that was because the dogs were off barking at something in the property behind the house. I heard the dogs get into a fight with whatever it was and heard lots of ripping and roaring with what was followed by what I would call a banshee cry. I do believe the dogs got into it with a cat, and I’m not talking to house cat or a bobcat. The two dogs that were with me that we’re not LGD’s ran back for the house and whined, wanting back inside. I took that as my cue to go inside and grab the gun but by the time I came back out with the spotlight the three heroes we’re back on the front porch satisfied that they had gotten rid of the predator.
I didn’t feel comfortable outside for days after that. Always felt watched and the dogs stayed on high alert.
Eventually whatever it was moved on and all was calm in the world again.
But yes. I have a lot of dogs. I don’t even want to count them.
Bruce
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Nor think about what it costs to feed them 
So how come they let the coon get to the chickens?
So how come they let the coon get to the chickens?
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Ferguson K
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They were all with me in the back pasture.
