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Famous last words! You can but try and hope the chickens are smart enough to stay away if he is too interested when they freak for whatever reason (because chickens do that).. I've seen that yard before, don't remember which thread though.

Just throw the word "Ancona" in the off topic post But yes, there are threads for predators and well, just about anything related to chickens, including Anconas of course. And it sounds like your dog IS the biggest predator threat to the chickens you have and any Anconas you might get in the...

I look forward to the pictures If the "problem area" is only in the back, then I suspect you will be fine free ranging your chickens if you can keep them out of the back yard. Then, of course, there is the issue of predators. Any loose dogs running the streets? They can be a bigger threat...

I can only speak for MY chickens with regard to how far they will roam. My situation is: Closest house is across the road (30' from our house) and ~300' away. No houses can be seen north or south, though there is a perpendicular road ~100' south of the house. No houses can be seen to the west...

Yep, that is an Ancona. When you don't know your breeds (as I did not) what they look like as chicks and as adults can be startlingly different. With my now 3 Y/Os, other than the green legs on the EEs, I wouldn't have known which of the brown chipmunk chicks were the Partridge Chanteclers and...

Note that they get more and more white with each moult. This is a 3 Y/O hen that has already moulted this year: My two are good foragers but pale in comparison to my smaller BA. But then, so do most of the other birds. The only one that was close was the Partridge Chantecler that became...