We pasture our chickens with a combination of a chicken tractor and electric mesh fencing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a good charge on the fence and, in combination with the dogs being friendly with the chickens and keeping predators down, we don’t turn the electric fence on. It’s just a big mesh pen.
However, in combination with the dogs’ fondness for chicken feed/poo, this can lead to some entertaining antics.
See below.
Ruby's life is extremely hard.
I helped her out as soon as I managed to a) stop laughing and b) take a picture.
Poor Ruby.
Update: Famous dog is famous.
Oh no. Poor Ruby, indeed. I love the look on her face – sort of “stop standing there and do something, idiot.”
This is screamingly funny. It’s that she doesn’t look distressed, but betrayed. Poor sensitive doggie!
The saddest dog I ever did see
Was stuck all in a fence
She had a searching, soulful look
But had not any sense
She only wanted chicken poop
Fresh steaming from the pen
And now she’s on the internets
Betrayed by her friend
Oh dogs, oh dogs, oh do not do
As that dog Ruby tried
For if that fence were lectrical
That dog Ruby had fried
Oh dogs, oh dogs, oh do not do
As that dog Ruby would
Don’t go a-eatin chicken poop
Like it was any good
Oh go on, go on, doggies dear
Don’t eat shit from the fowl
Or you will feel as Ruby feels
Too shame-faced for to howl.
OMG.
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OMG mondo roffles. Poor Ruby.
[...] Lauren’s dog is, in general, an amazing animal possessed of a tremendous amount of mothering instincts. Seriously. I’d sooner trust her with a newborn than an electric mesh fence. She has been a tremendous asset in identifying and locating escaped chicks this year. She’ll hear a distress peep long before we do and zero in on the poor little peeper in the way that only a critter with ears that big can do. Good girl. [...]