Rural Gardening: What does everyone do with all their roos?, 1 by Photographer

Photographer wrote:
LoraK, I too had okay luck separating the roos into a small flock of 8. They did not fight and sorta claimed and wandered about in separate areas of the yard. My problem was the yard was not fully fenced off and 4 of the roos & 1 guinea hen got eaten by neighbor dogs who mistakenly wandered in. I took it personal from that point and loaded my shotgun. Since then there are 3 fewer dogs and 1 less coyote in our immediate neighborhood and I have not lost any more of my now 30 big hens & roos or guineas (the coyote got 2 adult Game Fowl that run loose 90% of the daytime on my best friend and next door neighbors pasture property bordering our shared driveway). They sleep in my cedar trees on our side of the driveway. I claim 50% of the Game Fowl and so does my neighbor... we share 58 Game Fowl. I could have built one lousy gate and likely prevented the loss of the poultry. All I had was a 4X8ft plywood board leaned up against the rose arbor entrance. It didn't work simply because it blew down. After stringing 1500 ft of welded wire ..... I'm a bit out of gas. A gate is my next outside chore on my "to do list" after rebuilding a 250 sq ft outdoor cottage/bunkhouse this summer. Now my 18 yr old college freshman son has a separate "almost home" but he's still just 80 ft from our main house. He's also 50 ft closer to the new chicken coop. In May we kicked 50 chickens out of the messy dilapidated former horse stall/carriage house building. We gutted it and refinished it in the same rustic fashion. I recently added a 100 sq ft covered porch with a skirting. Its now an outdoor cottage ..... sounds kinda classy .... but it really isn't .... just a quiet separate BR.

This message was edited Oct 6, 2007 5:55 AM