bulldog just killed my chickens

[SilkieBantams]

Chickens that you've grown to love are not replaceable I would have that dog shot down no matter the cost of the damage it's done

 

[mrpekinduck]

Shoot it!

 

[southerndesert]

Sorry for the loss and my opinion may be a tad different, but logical to me because we keep our chickens as livestock and not pets though we do name many and think the world of them.

There is a time to kill the dog and a time to try to deal with a mistake a neighbor made and is trying to make good.

Right now I would accept the replacement birds and make it very clear next time will be the last....

The replacements would be same age that were killed by their stinking dog they were not responsible enough to keep at home.

Dog comes back it is then time to shoot it and the neighbor is much more likely to understand why as will be authorities if he makes a report.

Just how we decided handle it with a neighbor dog and it has not been back, but the ones I have had to dispatch were strays.

 

[cgmccary]

Very sorry for your loss. If you read on here regularly, it soon is apparent that the #1 predator of chickens is peoples' dogs.

 

[Mommy 2 Wee Ones]

I am so sorry.

 

[floridachickhatcher]

yeah this isnt the first time we have had this happen last winter 2 dogs attacked these chickens parents we lost a laying RIR hen and he killed 5 of the 7 BR 6mo roosters we had just turned loose cause they werent letting the others eat the food and we had let the one small BR rooster stay in since he wasnt eatting enough and only one of the BR roos we had turned out lived he had ran in the woods and came back the next morning i told mom he is a smart chicken for doing that its what saved him and then he blinded one of the RIR rooster we had loose i found him hidding underneath the porch

our neighbor and his son came over to help look for the chickens i thought to look under the porch and found a dead BR and then i saw the RIR roo i yelled out " Mom i found one of the rhodes hes still alive " but when our neighbor grabbed the rir he was scared he had both his eyes shut and you could see where the dog had his neck and head in his mouth he opened his eyes after a week and started eatting and drinking water and then i found out that the laying hen we found dead we thought that was the other RIR roo loose but then next morning i see him in the pen with Bull thats our head rooster i ran inside the house telling mom that wasnt the other rooster cause hes out in the pen with bull i see him that was a RIR hen he killed

and the woman only wanted to pay $5 a chicken.....and one of the dogs that attcked the chickens was part wolf

southerndesert

we have 195 chickens now we have 50 of the adults and 145 of the baby chickens it was 150 but since that bulldog came and we sell there eggs to a co-op who wants 80dz a week now with that young hen dead thats 7 eggs a week gone and $20 total gone for those 4 roosters one of the BR roosters he killed was the biggest one and he was going to get sold to a guy who has bought our baby hens before and he wants a organic rooster

 

[darkmatter]

That was one of the reasons I got a trailcam to see what's been coming around when I'm not out.

 

[Snowygirl]

i'm really sorry...i've never had problems with dogs, but i have a big dog who's pretty much their personal body guard. if you have a big dog you could keep it near your chickens. it could work...

 

[Capvin]

Normally I would be very hesitant about shooting a neighbors dog since it is generally not the dog's fault but the owner. However, if my neighbor or anyone else took the same attitude as your neighbor did I would have no hesitation to shoot the dog on the spot and would.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

A neighbors dogs killed 9 of my chickens. Some were rare, some not. One was a frizzle Jaerhon. Try to find one of those.
I charged her $20 a piece.