Can I get some help from someone with careless neighbours who own dogs.

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

My neighbours dogs have been getting out repeatedly and I’m done, yesterday they were tormenting my poor chickens and making them go nuts. Ive posted about this before but now I’m mad and want more help. What can I do without them knowing I called animal control or knowing I killed the dogs. She also started complaining when I told her to keep her dogs in about the roosters crowing when her dogs wake us up at midnight barking at frogs and things they find in the yard. I just am worried about my flock’s safety so what can I do.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Id keep the flock in a run with doubled or tripled hardware cloth.

If you call it in to the sheriff's it can be anonymous. Atleast here. They will just say there is a report of a dog being a nuisance.

I hope others can pitch in

 

[Jamesthesilkie]

I sprayed my neighbor's dogs with a hose about 5 times and they stopped coming into my backyard. It depends on how strong their prey drive is though

 

[TexasBlues]

Are they physically in your yard chasing chickens?

 

[tlcmurphy]

Do not kill the dogs, it’s not their fault! Would you want them them killing your rooster?

 

[SourRoses]

There is a sprinkler jet unit you can buy that is motion activated, meant to spray at deer and rabbits to keep them out of gardens.
Alternatively, some hot wire installed low to the ground.

 

[member 544621]

legally you can protect your livestock from the dogs (in most places)....
BUT.... Find a way to make it uncomfortable for the neighbor's dogs to cross your property line... AKA electric fence.

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Are they physically in your yard chasing chickens?

no but yes, my chickens are in a chicken wire run and the dogs are barking and trying to bust through it every chance they get.

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Do not kill the dogs, it’s not their fault! Would you want them them killing your rooster?

They aren’t just barking I have no problem with that, it’s them trying to get to my birds and hurt them that I care about

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

I sprayed my neighbor's dogs with a hose about 5 times and they stopped coming into my backyard. It depends on how strong their prey drive is though

They are corgi/king claviers spaniel, and kill things like rabbits and squirrels constantly