a sad 4th of july

[ChezPoulez]

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Proving my point in my post above, once dogs kill, they become driven to continue to kill for sport. Face it, why sit bored all day in a yard when fluffy, squawky playmates are just over 'there'. Your dog has proved that it is so determined that it dug out to get at the chickens. You will have to decide how to proceed for the safety of your chickens, but also knowing now you have a dog who will kill.

If you don't want to pen the chickens during the day, and since your dog has already proved it's willing to dig out, you have a few options:

1. get rid of either the dogs or chickens;
2. chain the dogs all day... and btw, that's a rotten option for the dog;
3. You can install an electric fence system. You install the wire on little insulators you nail to the fence near the bottom to keep the dog from getting close enough to dig. They're not hard to install or wire; or
4. Get an invisible wire fence system where the dog wears a collar and receives a shock if he crosses a boundary line.

As a dog owner, you have been put on notice that your dog kills. If it gets into a neighbor yard and does the same thing it's going to cost you some $$. If it were me, the electric fence would be my choice because I know it works, and works well 100% of the time. The dog is only going to get zapped a couple of times before it respects the new boundary line. If you run wire along the tops of the fences it will keep raccoons/cats/opossums from climbing over too. It can't kill them, it's like getting zapped with static electricity in the winter.

 

[nicokl502]

the electric fence system work great trust me you can go to walmart and buy one for 100 bucks it's the system where the dog wears a collar and you can put them in the ground or put them around a fence like i do and it works, and your dog gets to run around free and the chicken don't have to worry about being killed .but never take the collar off them for a min.. if they are like my dog he know it is off and then goes into the chickens but like chezpoulez once they kill they do get the taste for it i would get the electric fence now before they do or you will have to get rid of the dog or your chickens and who wants to have to do that !!!

 

[Tracydr]

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Proving my point in my post above, once dogs kill, they become driven to continue to kill for sport. Face it, why sit bored all day in a yard when fluffy, squawky playmates are just over 'there'. Your dog has proved that it is so determined that it dug out to get at the chickens. You will have to decide how to proceed for the safety of your chickens, but also knowing now you have a dog who will kill.

If you don't want to pen the chickens during the day, and since your dog has already proved it's willing to dig out, you have a few options:

1. get rid of either the dogs or chickens;
2. chain the dogs all day... and btw, that's a rotten option for the dog;
3. You can install an electric fence system. You install the wire on little insulators you nail to the fence near the bottom to keep the dog from getting close enough to dig. They're not hard to install or wire; or
4. Get an invisible wire fence system where the dog wears a collar and receives a shock if he crosses a boundary line.

As a dog owner, you have been put on notice that your dog kills. If it gets into a neighbor yard and does the same thing it's going to cost you some $$. If it were me, the electric fence would be my choice because I know it works, and works well 100% of the time. The dog is only going to get zapped a couple of times before it respects the new boundary line. If you run wire along the tops of the fences it will keep raccoons/cats/opossums from climbing over too. It can't kill them, it's like getting zapped with static electricity in the winter.

You might consider an invisible fence for the dogs, so they get corrected for crossing the boundary.
I'm very lucky, my Doberman wants to guard my chickens. My papillon is fascinated by them but is really too small to do much and very well behaved. She's smaller than the jumbo crosses and hasn't shown signs of wanting to hurt any of the smaller chicks at all. I'm very careful with small chicks, though.
I did lose some jumbo crosses a few weeks ago when a pit bull broke my backyard gate down. I think my Doberman may have solved that problem permanently as she put the dog on the ground an had her by the throat. Hopefully, the dog won't want to come for another visit any time soon. Gate has been reinforced, too.