Hey, Joe! Where You Going With That Gun In Your Hand?
While I was out of town, dogs broke into our chicken yard, killing 6 out of 16 of our chickens. Sunday morning, one of those dogs was back, and before it could get in, the Pirate chased it up the driveway. Yesterday, we went down to shut up the chickens for the night, only to find out that the dog/dogs had chewed THROUGH the chicken wire, gotten in and killed at least four of our chickens. Our rooster is nowhere to be found.
One of the five remaining has puncture wounds, but she's likely to recover. Considering how steeply egg production fell off the last time this happened, I don't expect any eggs at all for quite a while.
In the meantime, I'm about to do something I never thought I'd do. I'm about to go over the hill and buy a BB gun. For the time being, we'll be putting the five remaining hens into the smaller yard, which is a little more heavily fortified (two layers of poultry netting, one a much heavier-duty than the other, and bricks around the entire thing). They'll be in that yard until we entirely tear down and re-do the other yard to make it completely dog-proof.
I spent a lot of last night crying. Today, I plan to shoot any dog I see on my property. My two girls hate dogs. I never thought it would come to this.
One of the five remaining has puncture wounds, but she's likely to recover. Considering how steeply egg production fell off the last time this happened, I don't expect any eggs at all for quite a while.
In the meantime, I'm about to do something I never thought I'd do. I'm about to go over the hill and buy a BB gun. For the time being, we'll be putting the five remaining hens into the smaller yard, which is a little more heavily fortified (two layers of poultry netting, one a much heavier-duty than the other, and bricks around the entire thing). They'll be in that yard until we entirely tear down and re-do the other yard to make it completely dog-proof.
I spent a lot of last night crying. Today, I plan to shoot any dog I see on my property. My two girls hate dogs. I never thought it would come to this.
posted by Aoibheall | 7:14 AM
2 Comments:
That's horrible! I am so sorry you and the Co-Prosperity Sphere are having to deal with this. Whoever owns those dogs should be ashamed. :(
I'm so sorry to hear about the chickens. This is awful.
As always, please don't hesitate to call on Mike or I if you need help. And when you get ready to do the tear down and rebuild of the coop I'd be more than happy to come up and heft, hold, hammer, dig, you name it. Mike will probably volunteer, as well.
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