Random about Backyard Animals
Jun. 6th, 2010 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crazychicknladyApparently the geese have learned to come to the call, "Here, chick, chick, chick."
Ezra (the horse) won't come to any call besides the sound of his food bucket being shaken.
H noticed a spider the other night that turned out to be a black widow. My mighty husband slayed it by spraying it with WD40, them smacking it with a shovel while it was curled up twitching on the ground. No sarcasm here, he is my hero - black widows really creep me out.
The stupid wild birds around here are lousy at building nests - I keep finding dead baby birds on the ground. Ones way to small to be intentionally trying to leave the nest.
The geese are big enough to be bullying most of the chickens (grrr...stupid geese), but two of the older hens can still put them in their place.
The neighbors have a new dog (hopefully temporary, since they are watching her for a friend, but it has been two weeks and I'm wondering if temporary is going to transform into permanent) that can not seem to get it past her itty bitty brain that she does not need to bark at me every time I go into my back yard.
Hazel and Pete are now able to peacefully coexist with the geese. Thus I can let the geese out of the chicken/horse/goose yard to forage in the main yard and leave them out for a few hours without our dogs harassing (or doing worse to) them.
Ezra (the horse) won't come to any call besides the sound of his food bucket being shaken.
H noticed a spider the other night that turned out to be a black widow. My mighty husband slayed it by spraying it with WD40, them smacking it with a shovel while it was curled up twitching on the ground. No sarcasm here, he is my hero - black widows really creep me out.
The stupid wild birds around here are lousy at building nests - I keep finding dead baby birds on the ground. Ones way to small to be intentionally trying to leave the nest.
The geese are big enough to be bullying most of the chickens (grrr...stupid geese), but two of the older hens can still put them in their place.
The neighbors have a new dog (hopefully temporary, since they are watching her for a friend, but it has been two weeks and I'm wondering if temporary is going to transform into permanent) that can not seem to get it past her itty bitty brain that she does not need to bark at me every time I go into my back yard.
Hazel and Pete are now able to peacefully coexist with the geese. Thus I can let the geese out of the chicken/horse/goose yard to forage in the main yard and leave them out for a few hours without our dogs harassing (or doing worse to) them.
