My neighbor's dog just killed six of our chickens. Four were chicks just last year and their eggs have just sized up in the last couple of months. One was an older hen and the other, the roo. My neighbor is quite remorseful and I am wondering what compensation should be asked? I don't want to "soak" him but geez...you raise them under heat lamps for about 5 weeks, you wait about 6 months to get an egg, you wait for the eggs to get bigger to sell them, you clean the coop, you run the electric cord out to add light and keep water from freezing, I feed organic....These hens were on a roll laying beautiful eggs that I sell. What is fair? I guess nothing is fair for the poor chickens.
Been there, done that.
Neighbors dog killed 6 of my chickens.
He was also remorseful, but I was like, ok. I should’ve been outside watching them, and took the fall.
2 weeks later, that same dog came back and took a chunk off my other hens back, and so I put my foot down, he was going to pay the vet bill, which he did.
Had to keep that girl in a dog crate in my bathroom in the tub for 4 weeks until she healed (it was summer and the flies were bad).
All of my neighbors know everyone else’s business, of course.....yet,they don’t learn anything from it. So now I’m having to deal with ANOTHER neighbors boxer puppy running amuck, chasing my chickens.
Unfortunately, it’s come to the point where, even tho it’s not the pups fault that he has shitty owners, but I sit outside wi5 my loaded 380. In nc, if an animal chases your poultry, you have the legal right to shoot.
They can learn one way or the other. And I’m sick of negligent dog owners.
