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ducpainter

#300
September 21, 2013, 02:46:52 AM
Quote from: Dirty Duc on September 20, 2013, 08:55:34 PM
We decided to do guineas since they apparently scare away snakes and coyotes... 18 came in the mail.  The psycho dog opened the coop and killed 14.  1 hid on the porch.  1 showed up this morning.  We found a dead one this evening.  The last unaccounted one probably got eaten or died somewhere else.
That sucks
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Speedbag

#301
September 21, 2013, 05:28:32 PM
 :(
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Dirty Duc

#302
September 21, 2013, 06:44:39 PM
It's not really that surprising... we just thought we had a little more time to train her not to eat them.

We trained her to leave the fish in the pond alone, so the birds should be possible too.

Ducatamount

#303
September 22, 2013, 04:03:03 AM
Maybe you could circle the coop with the electric shock collar wire.
half fast

Skybarney

#304
September 22, 2013, 04:03:07 PM
Quote from: Ducatamount on September 22, 2013, 04:03:03 AM
Maybe you could circle the coop with the electric shock collar wire.

That would not even slow my pup down.  Most dogs that are prey driven will bolt right past a shock collar fence.  Heck mine treed two bear cubs and ran Momma Bear for 30 minutes before coming home exhausted.......

Sucks about your hens, I wish I had some advice for keeping the dog out.....
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Dirty Duc

#305
September 22, 2013, 06:14:17 PM
Yeah, we tried the shock collar thing to keep her in the yard.  We electrified the fence.  Now we only let her out when someone is around to let her back in.

She's actually really trainable, a family member let her out and didn't supervise her.  It's the way of these things, really.

duc_fan

#306
September 23, 2013, 11:05:21 AM
Quote from: Skybarney on September 22, 2013, 04:03:07 PM
That would not even slow my pup down.  Most dogs that are prey driven will bolt right past a shock collar fence.  Heck mine treed two bear cubs and ran Momma Bear for 30 minutes before coming home exhausted.......

Sucks about your hens, I wish I had some advice for keeping the dog out.....

:o  What kind of dog was that to run Momma after treeing her cubs without getting itself killed?  Mucking about when momma bear has cubs nearby is usually a good way to wind up dead.
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Skybarney

#307
September 23, 2013, 05:26:43 PM
^^ He is 80% timber Wolf and 20% Malamute.  I stood under the tree with the cubs and screamed out "You hurt my dog I will eat your babies",  I am sure that's why Momma let him live.  ;D

He is a very large dog and went over a five foot fence to go after the bear.  In all honesty I thought he was gonna be a goner.  Momma bear circled back after ditching him, grabbed the cubs and split.  I was happy to no longer be standing under the tree...... ;)
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cokey

#308
September 24, 2013, 10:39:50 AM
Pic of dog, maybe in the do thread..
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ungeheuer

#309
October 01, 2013, 05:33:15 AM
G'Day yuppies.

I really ought to get our chook shed fit for feathered inhabitation once again  :-\
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Dirty Duc

#310
October 23, 2013, 11:55:41 PM
The dog of doom has successfully not killed free range survivor guineas (while supervised)... and we are pretty sure why the little ones cause such stress.  They sound like a pack of rats on steroids in a wooden house.  Of course the part terrier had to kill them.

We'll train the puppies yet.

And we are not yuppies... yuppies have real internet.

ducpainter

#312
November 20, 2013, 06:28:40 AM
Got our first egg today.
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


LMT

#313
November 20, 2013, 06:33:23 AM

ducpainter

#314
November 20, 2013, 06:41:13 AM
We're so proud... :P

On another note...after we 'thinned the flock' of the surplus males we opened the door to the coop so they could venture outside.

It took a solid 3 weeks before they'd venture out. Yesterday they were in the dooryard of the old house.

They are back inside every evening at dusk...just like they're supposed to. [thumbsup]
"Once you accept that a child on the autistic spectrum experiences the world in
a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
 perspective
    is even more amazing than yours."
    To realize the value of nine  months:
    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
"Don't piss off old people The older we get, the less 'Life in Prison' is a deterrent.”


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