babsbag
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I hit the electric fence today, I wonder what case of extreme stubbornness that was for? 
The Education of Ben
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Beekissed
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I'm sure God knows! 
Took the top off a large cat carrier and used it to form a tunnel on the back pop door and also narrowed the opening to the pop door itself, to see if this thwarts the pup. He's no longer wearing his neck hardware, so he just may squirm into this tunnel but he will have big trouble making the turn into the coop itself and squeezing into the smaller hole of the door.
If this doesn't work I can extend the tunnel.
Ben "helped" me a little on the project...mostly just getting in my lap for pets.
Took the top off a large cat carrier and used it to form a tunnel on the back pop door and also narrowed the opening to the pop door itself, to see if this thwarts the pup. He's no longer wearing his neck hardware, so he just may squirm into this tunnel but he will have big trouble making the turn into the coop itself and squeezing into the smaller hole of the door.
If this doesn't work I can extend the tunnel.
Ben "helped" me a little on the project...mostly just getting in my lap for pets.
BlessedWithGoats
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Hope this works for you!! Best wishes!
babsbag
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Ben is just a gorgeous boy. Hope this works so he can leave the necklace off and you can have some eggs. No one is laying at my house except one little rogue bantie that leaves me one in the hay trailer most every day.
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Beekissed
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I sure hope it works too...I hated having him wear so many things on his neck. I had really even wanted to put off having him use the electric collar until later also but he's the adventurous type and would have wandered off without it.
All it will take is one chicken to figure it out and she will show the others. I already lured one into the tunnel and outside and she just figured out how to get back in as well, so it will be interesting to see if I have chickens out at daybreak or not tomorrow.
I put a big watermelon and a huge soggy pumpkin in the coop this evening to keep them busy and hydrated until they all figure it out.
All it will take is one chicken to figure it out and she will show the others. I already lured one into the tunnel and outside and she just figured out how to get back in as well, so it will be interesting to see if I have chickens out at daybreak or not tomorrow.
I put a big watermelon and a huge soggy pumpkin in the coop this evening to keep them busy and hydrated until they all figure it out.
Baymule
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Chickens aren"t as dumb as people think they are. I am sure they will quickly catch on to Momma's Latest Madness!
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Beekissed
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The chickens did fine with the new contraption on the door....and so did Ben. Didn't phase him a bit. Neither did wearing a coop blocker on his collar AND using the tunnel...he still stole my eggs today.
I'm thinking I'll have to invest in a fence charger and hot wire that pop door.
I'm thinking I'll have to invest in a fence charger and hot wire that pop door.
Southern by choice
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Ok so I know I shouldn't laugh... but I just have to.
Ok that's done.
Sorry... but I love the baby stage with these dogs... good or bad.
I am not laughing at the fact I just got all new collars at $12 a pop and the daggone toli head slips right out... their neck is bigger than their head so one of the red collars was laying in the field. I guess that was what they were playing with this morning.
Yes... it is the Toli in them. Not a single pyr has ever done such a thing.
Ok that's done.
Sorry... but I love the baby stage with these dogs... good or bad.
I am not laughing at the fact I just got all new collars at $12 a pop and the daggone toli head slips right out... their neck is bigger than their head so one of the red collars was laying in the field. I guess that was what they were playing with this morning.
Yes... it is the Toli in them. Not a single pyr has ever done such a thing.
