On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:41:41 -0600, hal wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:26:14 -0700 (PDT), graverobber_69@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>On Jun 28, 10:44 am, h...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>> A dachshund. Always hated those little sh**s. This dingbat was
>>> walking her dog and let him run off leash sniffing around my chicken
>>> pen. The thing found a loose spot under the wire and went in and
>>> followed them right into the coop. Mauled two of them. A young
>>> rooster got chewed up behind one wing. His back looks kinda bloody.
A
>>> young hen was laying on her side, looking alert but unable to walk.
>>> These are Rhode Island reds, about 5-6 weeks old. Do I need to kill
>>> the injured ones or can I give them awhile to see if they recover?
>>>
>>> Hal
>>
>>Yeah, Hal, I know what you mean. A lot of those small dogs were bred to
>>be (the general term for them) "ratters". But that in no means
>>justifies what the dog did your chickens. I hope you prevailed on your
>>neighbour to pay for the dead fowl and/or called animal control to have
>>that killer dog put out of its misery before it causes even more to many
>>of God's most noble creatures, the chicken.
>
> nah, it wasn't the dog's fault. It was just doing what dogs do. It was
> my fault really. I did not have my pen all secured yet. The chickens
> are a new project for me, and I am still fini****ng up the coop and pen
> and did not have the bottom of the fence secured all the way around and
> it went under the chicken wire. I was a bit upset with the dingbat
> neighbor but she felt so bad and apologized so many times that I
> couldn't really blame her.
>
> the rooster survived. He seems to be doing fine. I have 3 and I can't
> even tell which one was chewed up. The hen was not able to walk after
> about 3 days I put her down as she didn't seem to be recovering. So now
> I'm down to 20 hens and 3 roosters. Contemplating taking 2 of the
> roosters for dinner sometime soon.
>
>
> Hal
WOW, I have always tried to keep an 8:1 ratio of hens to roosters.
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