Re: won a battle, losing the war

montana wildhack <montana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> spoke these words of
wisdom in 2008073015405575249-montana@wildhackcominvalid:">news:2008073015405575249-montana@wildhackcominvalid:

On 2008-07-30 15:38:16 -0400, diddy <none> said:

it's just not practical to roof 3
acres (size of the chicken lot)

I didn't write clearly. This is what I meant. Birds fly. Foxes dig under
stuff.




We know how they left this morning. But I still think their initial entry
was under the foundation of a storage shed with a raised floor of 3 inches.
The ducks went under there at night, because they didn't like going to the
chicken house.

We thought they were safe there, until we woke up in the morning with a
field littered with dead bodies of ducks.

They had gone to bed when I locked the chickens away. They would not have
voluntarily come out until daylight. If they were out, they would have run
under the shed to safety. So the initial attack, I'm positive, came from
them accessing the other side of the foundation of the shed.

The ducks are no longer sleeping under the shed.
I have to capture them about 7 pm with a fish net, and lock them in a
Scotts Dog kennel (which happens to be in a 30 x 40 chain link enclosed
area) at night. A mink or weasel could still access them and kill them.
They are not totally out of risk. A mink or weasel could easily slip
through the 1 1/2 mesh wire. If this ever happens, I will have no ducks, as
they cannot escape.
I have to capture ducks early, because if I wait until they put themselves
away, i could not get them out, without pulling the barn off the foundation
with a tractor.
There is reasonable risk, and the rest is handled by nightly vigils and
daytime sentry.

I see no reason to get another dog to protect anything. i already HAVE two
dogs. They live with me. They herd the ducks every night to help me catch
them to put them in safety.

pfoley is simply an idiot and hit the idiot bin for 100 days. I hope she
gets her dog trained and some sense in that 100 days. And i hope her food
supply doesn't collapse. I sense her perspective of solving issues is to
throw money at it. If a food collapse occurs, money won't do her any good,
and her bleeding heart might have to go out and kill something to protect
what she has, or to eat what she doesn't.Anyway, I've had enough of her
nonsense when she's obviously out of touch with reality.


And raccons are infamous for chicken murdering, but (knock on wood) we've
never had a problem with them. Good luck getting them out of your attic
.

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