2 more dead babies😭😭

[Howard E]

My electric fence stopped the pit that charged me. Was quite the attitude adjustment. Kinda funny actually.

It has stopped every other dog I've had come around too. Result is always the same. They let out a yelp, head for the horizon and never come back.

BTW, for those who would shoot near, but not at, a dog.......do you think a dog knows what a gun is? You do, but do they? Unless you actually hit one, so they can associate the noise with what comes next, a simple loud noise isn't going to scare anything. At least not on a long term basis.

 

[cmom]

So sorry for your loss. Have you spoken to your neighbor? One BYC member had an issue with a neighbors dog. She talked to the owner who denied it was his dog. The next time it came on her property she shot it with a paint gun. Hopefully you can resolve this. I agree with @Howard E. I have electric wires and nothing has breached them. If you touch my wires you will hurt for a couple of days. Good luck...

 

[cmom]

I can tell you from experience, that an electric fence isn't going to stop a determined husky or pit bull. Maybe other breeds, but not those two.

Not necessarily true. I have heard many critters in the past connect with my electric wires and they don't test them again including I think they were Rottweiler's.

 

[Mogul Moonshine]

I can tell you from experience, that an electric fence isn't going to stop a determined husky or pit bull. Maybe other breeds, but not those two.

every dog is different my pit loves all animals from cats and chicks to bunnies.

 

[Painted Calls]

Not necessarily true. I have heard many critters in the past connect with my electric wires and they don't test them again including I think they were Rottweiler's.

Rotts don't have the prey drive a Husky has or the pain tolerance a pit bull has.

I have owned both and know just from my own experience, that if they want to kill something, a zap or 50 isn't going to stop them.

The electric netting may be different though. As long as it's hot-hot.

 

[Painted Calls]

every dog is different my pit loves all animals from cats and chicks to bunnies.

Most of mine did too. The dog that killed OP's ducks clearly doesn't.

 

[Howard E]

It helps to understand the way most dogs encounter an electric fence. When they first take notice of the chickens, they don't come charging in from the distance. Most of the time they come sneaking in to get close before they charge. If your fence is at the perimeter of your established yard area, most of the time dogs are still sneaking.....stealthy or at least still kinda slow......so will try to crawl under or through a wire fence. Watched one black lab simply hop over it.....but my top wire is only 20 inches or so off the ground.

After seeing that, if I knew a dog was around (or all the time if you want), I started baiting the wire. Initially just a piece of raw bacon, draped over the wire and held in place with a clothes pin. That got the lab and a LGD that had taken an interest in the birds too. Both dogs, zapped once, never saw them again.

Since then, I have rigged up a tin can hanging from hot wire using conductive material like wire......can now being as hot as the wire is and can holds the bait....so can be anything. Bacon, meat fat or scraps.....raw or cooked.....meat or chicken bones, etc. Strong fishy baits like cheap sardines in oil gets them all. They sniff or lick the can and it's all over. Just remember to punch a drain hole or two in the bottom.

Primary benefit of hot fence is to keep predators out. Secondary benefit is to keep chickens in. Most of our heavy layer breeds, once trained to a hot fence will not cross it. So chickens stay in and predators stay out. That is what I'm using and have not lost a bird yet when they are inside the fence during the day and inside a safe chicken house at night.