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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
- From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 10:47:01 -0400
I have found all my guard dogs as strays. the first one took about 2 years to whip into shape and he became an incredible guard dog for the chickens, he has even run off hawks. He also used deposit a dead coon in the yard right next to the brooding tractor every spring about 2 days after the first peeps arrive. Granted that dog did kill several chickens in the beginning (and did quit a bit of damage to the market garden including eating 25' of broccoli) the first year we had him but with patience we got it through his head that his job is to protect the chickens and not kill them and once he understood he took his job very seriously. he has trained two out of three other foundlings (the 3rd dog was old when he came here, hates the original dog and will not listen to much of anything he says. Fortunately he has no teeth and cannot get through a fence, so is not much of a threat to the birds). The dogs also keep bunnies, voles and deer from decimating the market garden-we let them run free 24/7. We have trained all of them to stay out of the garden beds, for the most part. They do get in them but do far less damage than the deer and other critters. We could not farm successfully without the dogs
Lucy Goodman Boulder Belt Eco-Farm Eaton, OH |
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[Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
david van veen, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
DreamThymeFarm, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
Thomas Patrick Hurtgen, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
Owsley lucy, 06/09/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons, Rozanna Lewane, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
Owsley lucy, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
Thomas Patrick Hurtgen, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
Beth Spaugh, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
Margaret L. Wilson, 06/10/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons, Margaret L. Wilson, 06/10/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
Margaret L. Wilson, 06/10/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons, Robin Follette, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
sunnfarm, 06/09/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons, John Pike, 06/09/2009
- [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons, Mike Rock, 06/09/2009
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Re: [Market-farming] Pasture chicken run and racoons,
DreamThymeFarm, 06/09/2009
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