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Beware dogs and chicken layers mealOur chickens are fenced in a largish area with a flexible mesh fence. Yesterday afternoon, I discovered one of the dogs (a black lab who eats everything) in the fenced area.
He had polished off half of an Omlet "peanut" feeder of layers pellets.
He was bloated and unhappy.
So far he has been sick three times, and had extremely pungent copious diarrhoea five times.
Thank goodness we have tiled floors and no carpets.
I have no idea what is in layers pellets, but it disagrees badly with labradors.
We are starving him until this afternoon and then he'll be on boiled rice and yogurt for 24 hours to attempt to soothe and recolonise his gut.
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alison
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He must have had a lot. Our dog eats them all the time without ill effect!
How is he now?
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mochyn
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Our large cockerel loves pig pellets...
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judith
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| mochyn wrote: | | Our large cockerel loves pig pellets... |
Have you got a proper-sized one now then? 
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The holding is now very noisy: 3 cockerels: 1 large, 1 bantam and 1 silkie. Add to that the 6 ducks, 8 hens, bees, 2 pigs and it makes the inner city look quiet  And then there're the wild birds, foxes, badgers, RAF jets, neighbour's tractor...
Anyone got any ear plugs?
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judith
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At least you haven't got an OH generating noise and dust in the room beside your office. I am actually wearing ear plugs as I type!
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mochyn
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Don't you wish he was still working away?
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judith
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End of August - won't come a moment too soon!
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in my previous life i had a labrador that ate everythign in sight
once she got into the shed and decided to eat a bag of sugar beat nuts that of course swelled up in her stomach
her stomach got huge and she spent all one afternoon chucking up but she was fine afterwards
i think it was just the amount of stuff she had eaten as opposed to what she had eaten
didn't stop her from trying to do it again
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Our pet ram realised he could just squeeze into a poultry run and used to finish off any layers pellets if he could. When we had chicks in an ark using the run, one of our Wiltshire Horns would jump the electric fence and get into the run for the chick crumbs if the door was open. Our ducks will eat catfood and pignuts given the chance , it's what I suppose you could call a mixed farm!
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"Mixed farm": now, there's a phrase I can relate to. In our case, mixed smallholding: one of the cats definitely thinks she's human: loves Bombay mix, curry, that sort of thing, also the wild-birds' peanuts, cake, just about anything she can get her paws on. Except beer: she's frightened of beer. Goes up to a glass, sniffs it, reverses quickly.
The pigs, of course, being pigs, eat anything.
CHickens seem to eat most things too, but the ducks are more limited by the beak-shape thing.
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I think it may have been a combination of things, he's sampled the chicken food before and just got a mild dose of gyppy tummy, but this was not in the same league at all. I think he just at so much he almost exploded when it swelled up! He was okay 24 hours later and the floor was so clean from it's multiple washings we could have eaten off it.
We'll be a t the vets on friday with the other dog so we'll ask then.
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