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  • Diamond T Farm
    started a topic He is killing my corn

    He is killing my corn

    Back a couple of months ago I planted Silver Queen Corn in my garden. Its beautiful and slow growing. But now it is taller than me and getting corn on it. Deacon is killing it. I have no idea why. Well yes, I do, its fun and tall and fun fun fun to play in. The garden has been there for months now, he never touches anything in there. Now that the corn in producing he is steamrolling it. It was taking me a while to figure out which dog it was, I thought it was him cause the ripped off stalks were in his and Gunnys favorite spot to put things. But this morning he was so busted.

    I saw him in there with my beautiful corn plant in his mouth and I hollered "Deacon, get out of there" He came padding up to me and I told him to get his fanny in the house. He knew he is not supposed to be in the garden. He went in the house and knew I was unhappy with him. I fixed his breakfast and he was laying on the sofa. I walked over to him and patted him on the head and told him to go eat. So he did.

    Here I am paying all this money for a corn free kibble and he is eating my corn plants. Well hes not eating the plants or the corn. He is just breaking them off and dragging them across the yard. Or he is just steamrolling them and breaking them off at the ground. Every day I am loosing more corn. I planted 72 plants and now I only have about 30 left. I love silver queen corn. I was so proud of my plants. This is the same thing he is doing with my cow skull that I had in my flower bed. But since I have a ton of skulls, that is no big deal. He can have the skull.

    I know the most logical thing to do is to fence it off, but I am not sure if it is worth it now. He hasnt touched the rattlesnake beans, or the crook neck squash or the zucchini or the okrey or watermelon or pumpkins. But it is open season on my corn. But the problem is, I dont have a tiller. I have to use the John Deere Tractor with the big AP plow or the even bigger disk harrow. I planted a small garden with alot of plants. I was trying that out and it has been very successful. I am going to have to build a tempory fence I do believe. Something I can move out of the way when we have to keep it tilled this fall. I think tonight I am going to move my round pen panels into the yard to see if that deters him some.

    Ok, thanks to listening to me whine. Because that is what I have totally done. I know the answer to my problem. Mabye I just needed a listening ear. Next year, my garden will be Fort Knox.

    I guess it is true. Deacon is a corndog. And you know, this is the first thing I can complain about him. So I guess I really shouldnt complain.

  • Diamond T Farm
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    Yall are killing me. I need to change the little picture from a frowny face to a happy face. But that would seem odd to have him killing my corn with a big grin face.

    We have a HUGE yard. I think we have over an acre fenced. Why do they have to play in the garden and the flower beds? I do try to find the sturdiest plants I can find.

    Gosh, I cant imagine the bull mastiff. Those dogs are huge. And how do you teach them not to get in the redzone?

    Its funny, I lay my flower beds out so that the paths that the dogs take when they cut corners does not have flowers there. I even leave big open spaces so my arthritic old Rottie has his favorite spots to lay. He doesnt get on the flowers. But I make it as convient for him as I can.

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  • MyDaneBaby
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    Originally posted by Gibson'sMom View Post
    Your steamrolling comment reminds me of Gibson. We have a small flower garden in the backyard. I put a short garden fence around it because he won't jump over it. One day the fence had settled alittle by the privacy fence, so he was able to squeeze through. I caught him red handed(pawed) chewing on the plants. I yelled out the kitchen window to get out of there. SO he proceed to go into a puppy zoom & can't figure out how to get out. Back & forth, back & forth trampling everything! I had to run outside & pull the fence down, so he could get out without killing himself. I was laughing so hard I almost had an accident. :-) I didn't care that the garden was completly ruined, I was more worried he would break a leg trying to get out of the forbidden zone. :-)
    OMG that brought back a memory. I had put a doggie play yard in my backyard to grow a patch of grass back. Some how my sisters Bullmastiff jumped in there (darned thing wouldn't get into the car, so your guess is as good as mine). Anywhoo I saw him and he saw me and he started dragging ass (think bullmastiff / play yard) and tore up every drop of grass I got started.

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  • Gibson'sMom
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    Your steamrolling comment reminds me of Gibson. We have a small flower garden in the backyard. I put a short garden fence around it because he won't jump over it. One day the fence had settled alittle by the privacy fence, so he was able to squeeze through. I caught him red handed(pawed) chewing on the plants. I yelled out the kitchen window to get out of there. SO he proceed to go into a puppy zoom & can't figure out how to get out. Back & forth, back & forth trampling everything! I had to run outside & pull the fence down, so he could get out without killing himself. I was laughing so hard I almost had an accident. :-) I didn't care that the garden was completly ruined, I was more worried he would break a leg trying to get out of the forbidden zone. :-)

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  • MistyLyn
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    Originally posted by faust View Post
    Wish there was a non cheesy story behind the bunny ears. My BF may have given me an Easter basket this year and wore the bunny ears to deliver it.
    I wanna see THAT pic!!

    And OMG, the disco outfit.....just, omg.

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  • faust
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    Wish there was a non cheesy story behind the bunny ears. My BF may have given me an Easter basket this year and wore the bunny ears to deliver it.

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  • zipsmom
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    Originally posted by Diamond T Farm View Post
    I guess it is true. Deacon is a corndog.

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  • Diamond T Farm
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    LOL. I have a cattle dog named Gus.
    I can almost hear disco music in my head. Hilarious. I am so going to find SOMETHING to dress Deacon in.

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  • MyDaneBaby
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    If the bunny ears pic doesn't do it - how 'bout Gus sporting his disco dance ensemble. [IMG][/IMG]

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  • Diamond T Farm
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    Oh if only I had some bunny ears. You know Faust. I havent seen you mention anything about kids. Just why did you have bunny ears? Just kidding.

    I may have to check out the goodwill. See if I can find anything interesting for my payback.

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  • faust
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    You should! You saw how sad faced it made Faust. I of course have shown everyone I know that picture. I am such a horrible mother, but I vaguely remember my mother doing the same things to me

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  • MyDaneBaby
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    Maybe you could post a picture of Faust in his bunny ears and tell him he's next.

    That should do the trick :-).

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  • Diamond T Farm
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    No, we dont have any cats. Its Deacon, I busted him.

    I am going to put up a temp fence. If the panels dont work than this weekend, I will get the other stuff. But hubby is leaving to go on a scuba diving trip down to PC. (We think, cant get all the details on that figured out). So it may be me and my daughter doing it.

    Last year we did a garden in the pasture, the deer ate it. We got nothing. This year we did it inside the fenced yard. Never thought the dogs would eat it.

    It is funny and I can smile about it, I do like my dog better than corn. I just prefer that he left the corn alone.

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  • Paradis
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    We have tons of neighborhood cats that loved to use our veggie garden as a box (where is a puking face when you need it) We build fort knox around the garden. We used chicken wire and electrical pipe (hubby is an electrician, it is an abundance around my house) pounded the pipe into the ground and up and over it because the cats were just hopping the fence.

    If it is just Deacon and not kitties that are getting into your garden, I would just put in some steaks and wrap some chicken wire around them, it would be very easy to move come tilling time. Our solution to getting in and out was to just leave it open at one side and have hooks to attach the wire to so that we could get in and out with ease but still not have to worry about a gate.

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  • ouesi
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    This thread is just cracking me up - between envisioning Deacon "wallering" in the corn and stealing skulls and driftwood out of the garden I've almost spit my drink out twice!

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