Siegfried and Roy?
Burt and Ernie?
You are a good man for taking them in.
But you should read up on Littermate Syndrome and take steps to minimize it.
You are a good man for taking them in.
But you should read up on Littermate Syndrome and take steps to minimize it.
You're acting harshly on these puppies, you expected them to live out their lives without destroying anything? Sure it sucks losing a chicken, but for many pet owners they end up losing a lot of household items to their pets. Suck it up and count it as lost, unless you'd seriously take a chicken as a pet over a dog....
Keep items and chickens up where animals can't get to them, a little thinking isn't hard.
Keeping them is a death sentence:
BS. those dogs will grow up with chickens, and be the first line of defense against coyotes and raptors.
Incorrect. You're ignorant in a lot of subjects.
To expect a puppy to never kill a chicken is a bit arrogant and is absolutely nothing like comparing men and women separation. Dogs, like little kids can be taught but it's your own fault if you just toss out puppies with other small animals and think nothing bad will ever happen. My grandpa never let puppies run loose withou supervision on his farm. After a while they learned not to mess with other farm animals.That is like saying men and women should be separated on the job. Or mulsims and chirtistians be separated on the job.
Everything on this farm has a roll. Chickens lay eggs, dogs are supposed to protect the chickens. Something does not do its job, it is out of here. The exception is retirement. If a dog, cat, chicken,,, whatever gets too old to preform its duty it may live here.
The chickens free range and they are going to stay that way.
My wife and I are going to fence in around 1/2 an acre for a new chicken yard. But the chickens will be let out to free range.
Well it looks like I was 100% right in those posts earlier in the thread I got a hard time for. Dump those inherently violent, aggressive dogs before they give you another decade+ of trouble. There's a reason the people who dumped them on the side of the road did so. Just make sure you neuter them first so they can never propagate those genes.
This morning the puppies killed one of my 6 week old australorp chicks.
Lets just say I am a little pissed off. I posted on facebook if anyone wants the puppies and will be asking friends and family members if they want them.
My wife and I raised that chick from the time it was around 2 - 3 days old. Fed it, took care of it, and those damn puppies killed it. Those chicks are like my pets. They deserve just as much care as those puppies do.
That chick could have produced around 600 eggs, maybe more, over the course of its life. And now its dead. Are those puppies going to compensate my wife and I for our financial losses? Hell no.
The chick was buried under a freshly planted satsuma tree. Maybe its death will no be in vain.
That is like saying men and women should be separated on the job. Or mulsims and chirtistians be separated on the job.
Everything on this farm has a roll. Chickens lay eggs, dogs are supposed to protect the chickens. Something does not do its job, it is out of here. The exception is retirement. If a dog, cat, chicken,,, whatever gets too old to preform its duty it may live here.
The chickens free range and they are going to stay that way.
My wife and I are going to fence in around 1/2 an acre for a new chicken yard. But the chickens will be let out to free range.
Are you well stocked up on condoms?
Please don't reproduce.
Also it's role, not roll.
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched, bro.
My mom said yes, I don't think to rest of the dogs found homes. My mom ended up calling animal control.