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  • From: "Errol Castens" <castens AT peoplepc.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: chicken-thievin' canines
  • Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:32:32 -0500


(Liz Pike wrote: The neighbors whose dogs devoured most of our flock, sold
eggs for half of what I'd planned to. It was all I could do to smile, and
beg her dogs to come back a visitin' "got a nice sweet juicy bullet waitin
fer yer lil doggie, maam")

I sympathize, Liz. Because we'd lost so chickens many to coons before, I
built a predator-proof pen in which our hens could scratch around and in
which I could feed them grass, clover, etc. I finally worked up the nerve,
after having them confined for two years, to let them outside to graze (in
my own yard) for a couple of hours in the late afternoon -- only to have
packs of the neighbors' dogs decimate them. One neighbor thought it was
funny when her precious pooch brought her a still-live hen. We have no leash
law in the county, but it didn't take but a couple of "lost dog" posters
before people got much better at keeping their mutts at home.

Errol Castens
Oxford, Mississippi





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