Another dog attack. Dead chickies.

[goatkeepers]

Oh Vamp, seems like when it rains, it pours, huh?

I'm keeping you in my thoughts! You'll make the best decision, I am sure. How did she get loose of her chain? Are the chickens free ranging?
My dog would do the same, 100%. He goes after our cats in the driveway when I let him out (on a leash).

 

[farmgirlie1031]

I'm sorry. I lost a hen and a roo and my horse jumped the fence yesterday! She had never ever done that before. Now I am worried she will get out and get ran over. I really hope she stays in and it was just a freak incident.

 

[horsejody]

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Sorry for your losses. That's too bad. My Lhasa Apso likes the chickens. He never did until they were hatched and brooded in the house. The dog became quite ill with epilepsy at the time, and seemed to relax watching the chicks. Lhasa Apsos are actually guard dogs. Thay can be trained like the big guardian dogs to be good with chickens. It takes a lot of effort though. Even though my Lhasa is good with the birds, I wouldn't ever trust him, or any other dog, totally unsupervised.

 

[chikenlady]

My dog (black lab mix) is VERY attacted to my chickens. She is not allowed anywhere near them unless they are in their run! So sorry for all your issues, Vamp. You have had your share of woes. Good times should be around the corner!

 

[LynneP]

Dogs and cats are predators. I don't trust any of my colony of ferals and you know you can't trust that dog. You really need separation, immediately. I hope you are in a position to immediately create biosecurity or sadly, you will lose your flock.

 

[farmgirlie1031]

Well, it happened to me. One of our dogs busted loose and killed a duck and injured another so bad it had to be euthanized I am so MAD at the dog right now. It was an accident though and I shouldn't have let the ducks out of their pen to play in the yard. They would still be alive had I not thought they might like to play in the yard for awhile

 

[SpottedCrow]

Sorry about the birds, Vamp...

 

[dacjohns]

 

[FlockEweFarm]

I am stuck with having to deal with my ex-husbands, "Good for nothing, poops in front of doors,gates, and what haves you, shreds anything she gets ahold of, including clothes, shoes, books, cats, chickens";German Shorthair Pointer. Even after I put up all kinds of fencing, including electric, poultry and field fencing, she still stalked my birds and would hit the fences hard enough that she could grab a wing or an appendage of any unwary bird, so after dealing with it to the point that I was ready to snap and shoot the dog, and I could no longer use the bb gun because my neighbor claimed that it was breaking laws of ballistics and doing all kids of amazing things with distance and trajectory, I came up with belling the dog.
I bought a bell like people put on their goats or sheep, and I put it on her, attached by about 6 inches of light chain. It jingles like crazy and she cant sneak up on anything, and it has the added benifit of driving the jackass neighbor up the wall.
I later added a 6ft length of chain for her to drag, to slow her down, because she was overheating herself, and just acting psychotic in her attempts to get them, but a bell should be enough for a little yap dog.
Good luck, and I hope something works for you.

 

[dacjohns]

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What kind of neighbor do you have or did misunderstand something. Laws of ballistics are like laws of physics. Can't be broken that I know of.


Side note, were you a wildland or stuctural firefighter?