BlueMoonFarms
True BYH Addict
My mara wont stop eating the eggs and the dang grain! I have made the entrance smaller, and smaller, and smaller, and then so small that the ducks can JUST make there way into the pen, and mara, like a flipping snake, pushes, pulls, scratches and forces herself into the pen to steal all the eggs and suck up the grain.
I have caught her twice and thrown her out, so now she wont go in it as far as I can see, but yet eggs are still vanishing...
My blasted brand new hens have been laying there eggs for a month now, and yet i find no eggs but yolk on the dog!
Grr...
And to top it off when we feed the sheep and they spill there bucket over a scuffel or something Mara will shoot over, lay on the grain and growl until they leave her alone to lick up the grain. She licks the ground until the grass vanishes
Of course we yell and shoo her away when ever we think shes about to run up and steal it, and then when the sheep loose interest thats when we let her do what she pleases.
She is also anything but starving, she and her sister eats six cups of food a day, plus half a can of wet food and any left overs we have. (currently pumpkin stew) They also get raw bones every few weeks when they clean out the one they had previously.
Shes also a
Klepto! Anything not nailed into the ground, and even that she has stolen it, she will steal and eat....For example, in the past two months she has stolen:
A head of cabbage, a box of nails, four of my phones *yes i'm serious...* a mail box post and all, multiple garden tools, the goats leashes, the chickens water dish, a garden bag full of tomatoes, my sheep stick, the post to the fence, the hay net full of hay, my feed cups *which she purposefully leaps up into to bump it so I spill the grain* the hose, a bag of freshly dug up potatoes, my hoof knife *I put it down for a second to get a better grip on my bucks hoof and went back to it, it was gone...Though immediately I retrieved it* a hammer, and a saw...
Most of these things we were able to retrieve back the second she swiped them...However the head of cabbage, box of nails, and the saw has yet to be found...
Is there anything I can do to keep her from stealing eggs, obsessing over the grain, and stealing things?
Now, to be very fair on Mara, these are really minute amusing things that she is doing, and although they are beginning to become annoying it could be so so much worse and I am so fully aware of that. this is just a rant, since today she stole my fence cutters right from behind me, and then she tried to lift the bucket of zip ties, ugh...
Kleptomaniac...
I have caught her twice and thrown her out, so now she wont go in it as far as I can see, but yet eggs are still vanishing...
My blasted brand new hens have been laying there eggs for a month now, and yet i find no eggs but yolk on the dog!
Grr...
And to top it off when we feed the sheep and they spill there bucket over a scuffel or something Mara will shoot over, lay on the grain and growl until they leave her alone to lick up the grain. She licks the ground until the grass vanishes
Of course we yell and shoo her away when ever we think shes about to run up and steal it, and then when the sheep loose interest thats when we let her do what she pleases.
She is also anything but starving, she and her sister eats six cups of food a day, plus half a can of wet food and any left overs we have. (currently pumpkin stew) They also get raw bones every few weeks when they clean out the one they had previously.
Shes also a
Klepto! Anything not nailed into the ground, and even that she has stolen it, she will steal and eat....For example, in the past two months she has stolen:A head of cabbage, a box of nails, four of my phones *yes i'm serious...* a mail box post and all, multiple garden tools, the goats leashes, the chickens water dish, a garden bag full of tomatoes, my sheep stick, the post to the fence, the hay net full of hay, my feed cups *which she purposefully leaps up into to bump it so I spill the grain* the hose, a bag of freshly dug up potatoes, my hoof knife *I put it down for a second to get a better grip on my bucks hoof and went back to it, it was gone...Though immediately I retrieved it* a hammer, and a saw...
Most of these things we were able to retrieve back the second she swiped them...However the head of cabbage, box of nails, and the saw has yet to be found...
Is there anything I can do to keep her from stealing eggs, obsessing over the grain, and
stealing things?Now, to be very fair on Mara, these are really minute amusing things that she is doing, and although they are beginning to become annoying it could be so so much worse and I am so fully aware of that. this is just a rant, since today she stole my fence cutters right from behind me, and then she tried to lift the bucket of zip ties, ugh...
Kleptomaniac...
They'd even go to the neighbors and steal their things! We'd get shoes, jackets, gloves and anything that wasn't nailed down. Not so much posts or tools that were laying around, nut people things. Clothes were their speicality! 
hopefully that will do the trick.
