After care for chickens after dog pack attack

[zmender]

The surviving Easter egger pecking at some melon rinds just now. Her bald spot underneath left wing is visible in the video.

 

[zmender]

This is her dramatic flight away from danger caught by security camera. At this point chicken and dogs have escaped the run, and the chicken is visible flying away from danger

 

[coach723]

If the bald spot is just that, plucked feathers with no wounds, then the feathers will eventually grow back. You just need to give them some time to get over the trauma of the attack, they will eventually return to normal behavior.

 

[zmender]

This morning some hesitancy for the easter egger (Butters) to come out, but by 11AM all 4 birds are scratching away in the run. Butters seemed more "spaced out" or "less excited" than usual? Perhaps I'm just projecting.

All 4 hens laid this morning - 4 fresh eggs.

 

[coach723]

Laying is a good sign!

 

[Tally Ho]

Hello everyone - being lurking here for a few months. This spring we accepted 6 rehomed hens from a friend - 3 leghorns, 2 easter eggers, and 1 brahams. Laying 4~6 eggs daily pretty consistently. They are housed in a solid coop attached to an outdoor run protected by electric fence.

Yesterday evening right before sunset, a pack of neighbor's dogs (3 medium/large sized) jumped over the fence into the run. Within a few minutes they killed one of the easter egger. The Brahams was coughing up blood and died on the way to vet. 1 of the easter egger flew out of run under the patio. Dogs plucked off half of her feathers but the hen is alife. She hide underneath patio for a few hours, but was circling the run a few hours later. We let her back into the run / coop. 3 of the leg horns were very shaken up but escaped back to coop unhurt.

We called police + opened case. Now we have a flock of very scared chickens who are not coming out of the coop, and I don't want to directly reach into coop fearing causing additional stress. Couple questions for everyone -

1) For the easter egger who returned to coop after dogs plucked her feather (extremely skittish / scared), do we try to catch her in the coop + bring her to vet? Or just leave her alone and observe?
2) What's best emotional care for the survivors?
3) Any special food / diets for next few days? Their poop seemed very watery this morning.
4) Surprisingly still got 2 eggs already this morning - this is a very, very vocal flock usually but unusually quiet this morning. Hearing the egg songs again gave me some degree of comfort.
5) We think dogs were under care of one of the county's dog walkers, but not sure where else to go. What are usual ways we can take to hold these people accountable?

scary !