Kaiser Fertilizer
In the Brooder
My chickens were recently attacked by my neighbor's dog, which is a problem in itself, I might post about another time. I was so upset because I thought I had lost a rooster and a hen, only seeing 5 of my hens out of the 7 chickens total. I saw the dog upon walking outside and the missing chickens, so it was pretty obvious something had happened. My family and I chased of the dog and searched for the missing chickens, and the missing hen just showed up, surprisingly safe. But just before I was about to give up, I heard the rooster under an old car in our driveway, crammed between the tire and the vehicle itself, barely able to get out. I checked him, and while he had practically lost his entire back tail feathers, and had a few cuts on his comb (no gashes, just tiny bloody red dots, possibly from the car) he was unharmed when I checked his whole body later on.
While I'm still trying to fix the dog problem overall, I want to know a specific question: did my rooster put up a good fight? I hadn't seen any marks on the dog in my single glance, and I assumed from the beginning that my rooster was the exclusive victim, but considering how my hens and my rooster all made it out alive with little to no damage (again, I checked all around their bodies, esspecailly the rooster) Is it possible he made a comeback?
Just for extra information, my rooster is a year and a couple months old Rhode Island Red (often aggressive). The dog is some sort of brown and white short haired dog (idk the breed) average size. My neighbors put the dog away for a couple days it seemed, presumably because my dad shouted towards it (as it ran towards their house). Although I didn't see any damage to the dog, I only saw it for a split second, from a couple yards away. This isn't the first time the dog attacked either, but the first time it seemed the rooster had no part in it (we lost one chicken that day).
So what do you think? Was my rooster simply a victim of an attack or did he actually fight off that dog?
While I'm still trying to fix the dog problem overall, I want to know a specific question: did my rooster put up a good fight? I hadn't seen any marks on the dog in my single glance, and I assumed from the beginning that my rooster was the exclusive victim, but considering how my hens and my rooster all made it out alive with little to no damage (again, I checked all around their bodies, esspecailly the rooster) Is it possible he made a comeback?
Just for extra information, my rooster is a year and a couple months old Rhode Island Red (often aggressive). The dog is some sort of brown and white short haired dog (idk the breed) average size. My neighbors put the dog away for a couple days it seemed, presumably because my dad shouted towards it (as it ran towards their house). Although I didn't see any damage to the dog, I only saw it for a split second, from a couple yards away. This isn't the first time the dog attacked either, but the first time it seemed the rooster had no part in it (we lost one chicken that day).
So what do you think? Was my rooster simply a victim of an attack or did he actually fight off that dog?