Rural Gardening: We had a massacre yesterday, 1 by kenboy

kenboy wrote:
I live in the sticks and the number one predator is dogs dropped off by city people. I guess I could build a place where stray dog could not get in but it would like a concentration camp. Feed bill for my four large dogs runs about $60. a month and what I make off one or two litters a year, more than covers that. If all I had were a few chickens, I would not need the dogs but they do second as pets. Maggi likes having them around when I am working out of town and at those times they seem to know she is uncomfortable and they stay close to the house. I came home once and found 12 dead peafowl, all killed by the most beautiful Malamute cross ( or something like it ) . Not all of my peafowl are high $ but I some that run $1,200 a pair. I figured I lost about $3,500 in one dog attack. The worse part is loosing some hybrids that I have worked on that bloodline for 12 years. Most people in the country have dogs. If you also have birds, might as well make that dog Great Pyrenees.


Java Green peacock Pavo muticus muticus;