Yesterday, while some of our chickens were free ranging on our lawn(including a hen and her 3 chicks), our neighbor's young brindle-colored boxer-like dog came running onto our lawn after the hen and chicks! And this is Setherina's(the Buff Orp hen) first time being a mother hen, but she knew exactly what to do; she made a loud alarm and the chicks went scrambling under a nearby bush to hide. Setherina puffed up and tried to attack the dog, making loud cackling noises, which made our 2 roosters start their loud alarm calls. At the time, I was in the house, unaware of what was going on outside; but when I heard the rooster's alarm calls, and the loud noises Setherina was making, I immediately went out to see what was wrong. Setherina had retreated to the bush with her chicks to hide. The boxer was standing in our driveway. Since the boxer isn't aggressive and is afraid of strangers(and he only tried to get the hen and chicks because he wanted to play with them and he was curious), when he saw us he ran off down the road and back to his owner's house. Setherina and her chicks cautiusly came out from hiding, and luckily, all 3 chicks were unharmed. Setherina was fine, too.
We called my dad(who was at the store) and when he got home, he called the police because it's against the law to let your dogs run around on other people's property. The same dog had chased some of our Red Star hens and RIR rooster a few weeks ago, and he has intruded on our property many times before. But we haven;t said anything because we didn't want to cause a problem. My dad has also told our neighbors to keep their dogs on their own property because we have chickens free ranging, but that didn't work.
So now we are getting the police involved; it was too close when the boxer tried to get Setherina and her chicks.
Hopefully we don't see the boxer running around again.
Thanks for reading!
(P.S. These neighbors don't really like our roosters crowing very much, so that may be why they let the dogs out to run around all the time. My dad even heard one of the guys who live there(who is actually a little mental, in a serious way) urging the dogs to get the chickens when he let them out. And one reason why our roosters crow is because the same guy makes crowing noises at them, which they think is another rooster!
We called my dad(who was at the store) and when he got home, he called the police because it's against the law to let your dogs run around on other people's property. The same dog had chased some of our Red Star hens and RIR rooster a few weeks ago, and he has intruded on our property many times before. But we haven;t said anything because we didn't want to cause a problem. My dad has also told our neighbors to keep their dogs on their own property because we have chickens free ranging, but that didn't work.
So now we are getting the police involved; it was too close when the boxer tried to get Setherina and her chicks.
Hopefully we don't see the boxer running around again.
Thanks for reading!
(P.S. These neighbors don't really like our roosters crowing very much, so that may be why they let the dogs out to run around all the time. My dad even heard one of the guys who live there(who is actually a little mental, in a serious way) urging the dogs to get the chickens when he let them out. And one reason why our roosters crow is because the same guy makes crowing noises at them, which they think is another rooster!
