Dogs are killing my ducks and chickens. How do I safely repel them? Ultra sonic?

[Lor]

I’m sure it’ll help. I don’t want to deal with the cost of electricity or dogs invading my personal property by installing something electric.

They have solar electric fences, if that's helpful.

 

[jakej1978]

David made a good point which I can’t deny. I thought about dogs, though breed does some into play, but who is to say they won’t wander off and kill someone else’s animals?

A talk with the neighbor doesn’t cost or change my setup. There’s also upkeep and the chance they go outside my property. Same with a dog.

And yes once has to check their local codes and laws. For me, it’s personal preference, I chose to notify the neighbor. It definitely changed things and the whole neighborhood knew my ducks more than once were killed my dogs. I didn’t call the police or animal control, I could have. But I didn’t do that route.

 

[Lor]

David made a good point which I can’t deny. I thought about dogs, though breed does some into play, but who is to say they won’t wander off and kill someone else’s animals?

A talk with the neighbor doesn’t cost or change my setup. There’s also upkeep and the chance they go outside my property. Same with a dog.

And yes once has to check their local codes and laws. For me, it’s personal preference, I chose to notify the neighbor. It definitely changed things and the whole neighborhood knew my ducks more than once were killed my dogs. I didn’t call the police or animal control, I could have. But I didn’t do that route.

I think talking with the neighbor is a good thing.

 

[centrarchid]

At some point if you are to stay in the chickens and ducks, then you will probably adopt more preemptive measures. If you did not already have, then you will eventually get dogs coming from neighbors that are not so close physically or about their concerns for your lifestyle,

 

[lifein1840]

My yard is fenced but the drive way has a 12 foot gap and I can’t install a gate.

A dog has 3x wipes out 30 ducks. I talked to the owner but it continues to happen.

It usually happens at night and it’s not always the same dog.

I don’t want to be mean to the dog, just keep them out.

Any ideas?

Get game cameras and know which dog(s) are doing the damage. In some states, you can charge the owner the value, sometimes more than base value, of livestock killed by a neighbor's dog and that may give the neighbor incentive to lock up their dogs or put up fences. You shouldn't have to put up with that! Your animals shouldn't have to put up with it!!!

 

[jakej1978]

I do have cameras. Was considering posting a sign so that others are aware.

My property, my space, also my problem to a degree.

 

[McChooky]

I have considered an electronic gate, but we’re kindly weirdly situated where there’s a lot of land, family dwellings and vehicles, so each vehicle would need a gate sensor or code. May be some day, but can’t justify the cost right now.

Though a cattle grate would be fairly simple, I think the wife would hate it. Plus the young ducks would fly over it (at their own unknown risk to
Dog attack.) They like to go out there and explore, especially when it rains. The more mature ducks stay inside the yard as I have always chased them back in when they wander out.

I don’t usually clip their wings because they don’t have any defensive mechanisms.

Kind of a crapshot, but lots of ideas I hadnt thought of!

There are such a thing as a drive over gate.It springs back up after you've crossed it.

 

[jakej1978]

There are such a thing as a drive over gate.It springs back up after you've crossed it.

Indeed, but what happens when you reverse over them? Some of them will cause a Costco run for new tires!

 

[AGeese]

A neighbor who didn’t own the dog, but rather lived in the home where the dogs lived gave me $45. That meant a lot, even if it was $10.

For 30 Ducks I am going to say $450 carcass market value excluding the fair value on the average number of eggs sold or consumed over the course of future laying expectancy of each bird, plus any lost pay from time off work dealing with this, lastly clean up, material and disposal fees.

 

[jakej1978]

For 30 Ducks I am going to say $450 carcass market value excluding the fair value on the average number of eggs sold or consumed over the course of future laying expectancy of each bird, plus any lost pay from time off work dealing with this, lastly clean up, material and disposal fees.

Yeah. Can you add love, emotional distress? It does add up. Be it $45 or $450, a renter in the house offered me what he could and apologized and said he’d talk to his roommate, the dog owner. I did appreciate that. Which also calmed me down.

I came home and the yard was quiet. Nothing. Something was wrong and it didn’t take long. Then I saw (it was two dogs) coming back for more. One duck was hiding under a car and I picked her up and put her in the baby chicken cage but she didn’t make it. She was in very bad shape and bleeding everywhere.