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Thank you. I did manage to find a feed store that still had chicks a couple of weeks after it happened, and the breeder I got the ameraucana rooster from still had chicks, so I did get 10 chicks not long after the others were killed. They’re 20 weeks old now. I ended up with 3 boys though, so I...

The wife came over the next day and asked if we wanted to order new chicks. We told her we needed to decide what we wanted to do, but that this cost a lot more than just a few chicks. We gave her a settlement offer, never heard back. Gave her a new offer, never heard back. That’s when we decided...

The double was factored in, so it ended up being $20 per bird, besides the one I had actually paid more for. I had done all the math on how many eggs we were losing out on and how much that cost, and I had it all in front of me, but I didn’t have much chance to explain it because the judge said...

The dog owners paid on the spot. It was only a little over $400 with the cost of chickens and court fees so they gave us a check at the courthouse.

Thank you. I’m glad I won, and hopefully the dog owners will keep them in line going forward, but I’m disappointed in the ruling as well.

Hi all, I thought I would post an update now that this is finally over with. I ended up taking this case to small claims and my court date was today. I won the case, but I ended up with a judge that clearly doesn’t know much about chickens and severely undervalued them. I tried to explain how I...

I hope so, but we’re prepared to go if we need to.

I like the idea, and I would do it in a heartbeat if we could afford it, but unfortunately we’re pretty tight on money, and most of our property except where the buildings sit is on a mountain side, so it would be difficult and too expensive to fence in the whole area with anything other than...

We called the sheriff’s department the morning after, they finally sent someone to take our statements today and they’re going to cite the owners, then once that’s done we can either have them reimburse us out of court or we can take them to small claims.

I have some pics from Monday when it still looked pretty bad, but it’s looking better now. She’s got a big gash around her tail and most of the feathers were torn out, that’s the worst. She also has a couple of small, shallow wounds on either side of her chest which are healing well already and...

I do like that I can see what’s going on there and from what I can tell it’s working. The others aren’t picking on her so far, and it would take a week for blu kote to get here. I may get some for the future but I think for now I’m going to continue with Vetericyn.

I mean more that I’ve been trying to get the clots of blood and feathers away from the wound, she doesn’t sit still for very long. Otherwise besides spraying I haven’t touched the wound itself since I initially disinfected it. She’s out walking around with the others today and I’ve hardly seen...

Vetericyn is what I’ve been using. I’ll look into Blu-Kote and see if I can get some quickly on amazon. I’ve been cleaning her wounds daily, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to bandage it but it’s in a difficult spot.

Idk how I forgot but I have been offering her grower feed alongside layer feed the last couple of days. When she was staying in the coop all day I put a dish of both in with her. I can’t really go out and buy anything else atm, the nearest feed store is like 75 miles. We don’t have tractor...

I have grower feed that I believe has a higher protein content than the layer feed, I just switched the pullets off of it but I can leave some out for a little longer if it helps.

The injured hen is doing a lot better today. She still has a lot of healing to do, but she had more energy today and was out with the others most of the day and is eating and drinking normally again. I can tell she’s not a fan of having her wounds sprayed so she gets extra mealworms for being...

We’re still in the process of building our case, but I’ve been researching Oregon laws on the matter and because they dogs killed chickens they will either have to rehome the dogs to somewhere were they will not be a threat to livestock or the dogs will be killed. Either way I’d be satisfied.

I’ll try. Depending on how this case develops I may not be able to provide too many details until it’s settled. I can tell you that while contacting the breeder I got the ameraucana rooster from, she mentioned she has ameraucana chicks for sale so I’ll be picking up 4 next week.

We did file a report the morning after the incident. We offered the dog owners a way to settle out of court, but they refused and now they’re going to learn how much our chickens are worth. We’ve been in contact with the sheriff’s department and we have all the evidence we need to prove it was...

They’ll understand if we shoot the dogs. They said they would do the same thing to defend their property, and we informed them of the law. We’re giving them until tomorrow to decide if they agree to our terms, in which case they will be signing a contract, or if they would like to go to court...