Nice puppy pic, but the dog was fourteen months old, and it was stated it was killing chickens. That is what farm folks do to chicken killers and egg suckers.
That said the dog look like a wirehaired pointer, and that is the inbred instinct of a bird dog to go after birds. The dog did not get the training to be disciplined around the chickens, and that is the owner's fault. She should have given the dog to someone that could use it for the purpose it was bred to fill, bird hunting.
You know, this is exactly it. There are people of all sides voicing opinion in this who have ZERO knowledge of farm/ranch life. Not a fucking clue. It takes mega effort to raise hens to the laying stage. 6 months. Thats 6 months of feed, flock management, predator management. Then you have 6-12 months peak egg production. If a dog attacks and kills production birds, That farmer/rancher is out all of that investment, and potential return. A production hen can lay 300 eggs a year. One bird. That is 25 dozen eggs from one bird. How much are farm fresh free range eggs? One bird and the farmer is out at least a few hundred dollars. That sounds crazy, but I raise chickens as a hobby. Its a big deal to lose several. That is why all raccoons need to be eradicated from existence.
My chickens are laying a lot further than 6-12 months. Do you mean free grazers that die due to predators? An egg layer should get you at a minimum of 3 yrs. An average of 4, and close to 5yrs. If your only getting good egg production for 6-12 months. Something is wrong.
Not what I said at all. PEAK Egg production is from 6-12 months age. All layers lay for 5-6 years. You need to study up. Egg production for ALL hens, regardless of breed changes over time. PEAK production is in the first 12 months of production. Read before you comment
I don’t have to read, I know from experience. A chicken won’t lay more than 1 egg a day…that’s peak production. My current batch are going on 3 years and give as much now as they did at 6-8 months. I expect this to keep going till, as usual, 5 yrs…then it will taper off. That’s when I introduced them to the back 60. Be free little chicken! Let nature take its course. So if you have 25 chickens, you should be getting around 20-25 a day. That’s peak. If you have 10, you should be around 8-10 a day. I’m down to 6 currently and I get 5-6 a day. I don’t like introducing new chicks with older hens of I don’t have to. It gets brutal sometimes. But if I lose anymore, may have to. Of course these numbers are outside of molting and any situations where they get freaked out.
Nice puppy pic, but the dog was fourteen months old, and it was stated it was killing chickens. That is what farm folks do to chicken killers and egg suckers.
That said the dog look like a wirehaired pointer, and that is the inbred instinct of a bird dog to go after birds. The dog did not get the training to be disciplined around the chickens, and that is the owner's fault. She should have given the dog to someone that could use it for the purpose it was bred to fill, bird hunting.
You know, this is exactly it. There are people of all sides voicing opinion in this who have ZERO knowledge of farm/ranch life. Not a fucking clue. It takes mega effort to raise hens to the laying stage. 6 months. Thats 6 months of feed, flock management, predator management. Then you have 6-12 months peak egg production. If a dog attacks and kills production birds, That farmer/rancher is out all of that investment, and potential return. A production hen can lay 300 eggs a year. One bird. That is 25 dozen eggs from one bird. How much are farm fresh free range eggs? One bird and the farmer is out at least a few hundred dollars. That sounds crazy, but I raise chickens as a hobby. Its a big deal to lose several. That is why all raccoons need to be eradicated from existence.
My chickens are laying a lot further than 6-12 months. Do you mean free grazers that die due to predators? An egg layer should get you at a minimum of 3 yrs. An average of 4, and close to 5yrs. If your only getting good egg production for 6-12 months. Something is wrong.
Not what I said at all. PEAK Egg production is from 6-12 months age. All layers lay for 5-6 years. You need to study up. Egg production for ALL hens, regardless of breed changes over time. PEAK production is in the first 12 months of production. Read before you comment
I don’t have to read, I know from experience. A chicken won’t lay more than 1 egg a day…that’s peak production. My current batch are going on 3 years and give as much now as they did at 6-8 months. I expect this to keep going till, as usual, 5 yrs…then it will taper off. That’s when I introduced them to the back 60. Be free little chicken! Let nature take its course. So if you have 25 chickens, you should be getting around 20-25 a day. That’s peak. If you have 10, you should be around 8-10 a day. I’m down to 6 currently and I get 5-6 a day. I don’t like introducing new chicks with older hens of I don’t have to. It gets brutal sometimes. But if I lose anymore, may have to. Of course these numbers are outside of molting and any situations where they get freaked out.