rachels.haven's Journal

[Mini Horses]

What you spray MAY be a bigger problem. Roundup ! I had a worker spray it near a fence line -- against all orders not to!!!!!!! -- two mares ready to foal within week, put heads thru wooden fence and ate. Dead foals aborted within 48 hrs. Be careful.

 

[farmerjan]

Yes, you have to make sure you keep any livestock from eating anything that has been sprayed. When we renovate any fields, it is a 2-4 year process and no animals are within any "reaching distance" of those fields during anytime of the renovations. Be careful of what you spray and how soon the animals have any access at all.

 

[rachels.haven]

Absolutely!
We don't have any animals bordering us, but we area also going to stay back from the property line.

 

[Ridgetop]

What is the name of the herbicide that Farmerjan sprays her pastures to get rid f the dangerous weeds? The stuff is ok for the cattle to eat after spraying?

 

[Mini Horses]

Maybe Grazon? There are others. There are herbicides that kill broadleaf, ignores grass. Roundup kills everything. They want to kill the fescue grass.

So these that kill broadleaf are ones that also make hay from there not good garden mulch as it leaches out. If you get clover an some weed, it's most likely untreated. . I havent used anything for such in almost 20 yrs. My goats love weeds!

 

[rachels.haven]

*goat owners planting weeds for goats*
I wish there was a pesticide that only killed non-broadleaf plants, specifically fescue, but if there is I don't know about it.

 

[rachels.haven]

I also need to take out some Johnson grass and daffodils. The brome I think I can lime and fertilize out...but I'm sure the goats would try that too.

 

[rachels.haven]

I was comparing Riker the puppy we have outside to our experience with Badger and it dawned on me that Badger was severely behind the curve in his ability to think things through and reason as a Pyr should and for a LGD he was very, very slow and definitely cognitively impaired. If I were more experienced I would have noticed something wrong right away and wouldn't have been surprised when he started deciding that random objects needed to be "killed" as threats and then moved into living things...
I also think his breeder KNEW she had canine epilepsy in her litter and in the parents and she knew that she was selling puppies that had it and could become dangerous and that was why she reacted the way she did. It wasn't a very good scam, but it was a bit of one and the main thing I did wrong was not have more experience to recognize things as they were happening in the first place.
I probably should have put him down much earlier.
Pyr puppies are uncomfortably stubborn, but extremely intelligent and I don't think Badger could hold onto a thought long enough for that.
Riker doesn't want to do things unless the world conforms to his perception of reality (he "gets" to anyway). He definitely remembers all the yesterday's. Badger did everything like it was always the first day of his life. Poor dog. He would never have been able to be an LGD and the desire to act on his own (scrambled) thoughts like PYRs do made him very dangerous.

 

[Baymule]

NOOOOOO not the daffodils! Dig them up and send them to MEEEE!!!!!!!

 

[Baymule]

I was comparing Riker the puppy we have outside to our experience with Badger and it dawned on me that Badger was severely behind the curve in his ability to think things through and reason as a Pyr should and for a LGD he was very, very slow and definitely cognitively impaired. If I were more experienced I would have noticed something wrong right away and wouldn't have been surprised when he started deciding that random objects needed to be "killed" as threats and then moved into living things...
I also think his breeder KNEW she had canine epilepsy in her litter and in the parents and she knew that she was selling puppies that had it and could become dangerous and that was why she reacted the way she did. It wasn't a very good scam, but it was a bit of one and the main thing I did wrong was not have more experience to recognize things as they were happening in the first place.
I probably should have put him down much earlier.
Pyr puppies are uncomfortably stubborn, but extremely intelligent and I don't think Badger could hold onto a thought long enough for that.
Riker doesn't want to do things unless the world conforms to his perception of reality (he "gets" to anyway). He definitely remembers all the yesterday's. Badger did everything like it was always the first day of his life. Poor dog. He would never have been able to be an LGD and the desire to act on his own (scrambled) thoughts like PYRs do made him very dangerous.

Now you have the hard won experience and are able to look at a dog a little differently. That woman should not be allowed to even have a dog, much less sell puppies to unsuspecting people. For you, it was a terrible experience but on the other side of that, it gave you valuable insight and powers of observation that otherwise you would not have. Even out of bad, can come good.