fluffy news
- From: JA_MORAN <john@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:49:07 -0700
at my parent's place, near Phoenix, they have a 8ft by 10 ft dog kennel enclosure that has been converted into a bird pen
there is a tolouse goose a sebastopol goose two plymouth rock hens and six rhode islend red hens.
Inside the pen there is a laying hutch with an upper and lower level. The geese made a nest on the lower level and chickens on the upper level.
the Tolouse goose was on the next laying an egg and one of the rhode island red hens had an issue with the goose, the chicken climbed on the goose and was visciously attacking the bigger goose. the goose was being still. When the goose is not on the nest or eating, she frequently stays in the middle of her kiddie pool pond. Even when the goose is eating, that one chicken will go after her.
I finally seperated the geese from the chickens, I put some 3 foot wire up in a corner of the back yard enclosing an area of weeds and tall grass. WE had also recently planted some grape vines in this area and put wood chips around the base of the grapes. Miss fluffy, the sebastopol goose decided to make her nest in the wood shavings.
I thought it was unusual for a chicken to be attacking a goose but then, on my 20 acre farm in southeastern Arizona, I've seen a guinea go after a much larger turkey
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