Free-range worries post dog attack

[Tala]

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I promise you I could keep any dog in or out of my fence with a few electric wires. Run a hot wire fence offset from your chainlink.

They make special insulators that stand off of chainlink fence about 8" you will need that at the top to precent clime-over. What's even better is that a dog on the metal fence will be VERY well grounded when it hits the hot wire and he will probably NEVER want to try that again.
At the bottom of your fence you can set stakes in the ground or run more chainlink offsets. Try to keep the wire 6 to 8" away from the ground or fence, but you still want it to be RIGHT where the dog's nose will be.

Ground your electric fence set up with good deep ground rods.

Also, do NOT get a "pet contaiment" type fence charger. You want a real one, if you need help tell the guy at the feedstore that you're trying to keep goats in! LOL
Seriously, you want enough juice to make a bull think twice.

 

[JROOSTER]

For Betty!!

For your neighbors aim!!

 

[rachelbinnc]

Wow, I am so excited by the possibility of an electric fence, especially since I have been worried not just about the chickens but about my cats and my little dog. I can't believe it is actually affordable. Thank you for giving me back my optimism. I'll do a little research and i will undoubtedly have more questions for you experts. Thank you, thank you!

 

[rachelbinnc]

Forgot to give you an update on Batty:

I took her in to the vet again on Tuesday and she had an infection in the wound. The cleaned it out and removed all of the dead tissue and it looked AWFUL! The vet offered a new antibiotic and this topical herbal treatment called Golden Yellow. She thought Batty had a 50/50 chance. I've been flushing her wound daily and tube feeding her for extra nutrients. And she is improving! The wound doesn't smell bad anymore (unless I stick my face very, very close and try really hard), she's fighting me a lot more with the tube feedings, and yesterday when I took her outside for her few minutes in the sun, she laboriously limped all the way to the coop and stared at me like she was saying, "AHEM! Open the door, dummy!" I supervised a littly time with her sisters but took her back in the house when she looked like she was actually going to try to get up on the roost. The wound is still huge, but the Golden Yellow had dramatic results in drying it up. I highly recommend it for wet, seeping wounds.

 

[jjthink]

Sending lots of good wishes for Batty - I fervently hope she'll be alright. I am sooooo sorry about the birds who didn't come through. It's heartbreaking and a horrific way to go. I hope you - or someone - can round up the dog(s) very soon. Jody knows of what she speaks, having endured a horror movie of her own with Rhodesian Ridgebacks on the loose. I received multiple fractures forma husky that was attacking my birds last May - I would do it again to save my babies but it has been difficult (Jody, I have to find that old thread and update it as soon as I can - I just found out the charge for "dog cusing injury" was dismissed in mun court - impossible - can not imagine how that could have happened - but true).
JJ

 

[horsejody]

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You need to become the squeaky wheel and demand answers about that charge being dropped.

 

[jjthink]

Yes, indeedy. My former lawyer hasn't done squat since last May so I just got another one that I think will be more on the ball. I've never sued anyone before but apparently it is becoming necessary in order to get medical taken care of - though I need to see what the lawyer thinks the impact of the dismissal will be. The ACO and the police - who came and got the dog - both heard me say that I think my hand was broken and they knew I went to the ER afterward and that multiple fractures were indeed there. For all I know maybe the dog owners claimed their dog wasn't responsible.
JJ

 

[Horsegeek101]

I keep meaning to post my favorite healing salve on here, on many wound threads. I maybe need to post a new topic somewhere where more people could see it.

Anyway, I bought this 1st, for my horse, who after enduring a major colic surgery suffered some nonhealing wounds to his hips. He had just been down in the mud so long when I found him, and then on his back for surgery, so the wound festered, and his body seemed to do more to heal the surgery site, and of course what was underneath all the organ snipping and stitching. Anyway, the scald wound on the hips wouldn't heal. I cannot tell you how many things I tried on him. I have had this horse for 26 years now, colic happened 2 years ago. I spent a fortune, and almost a year before I somehow stumbled on this tiny website, very small budget type thing, and advertising an herbal salve.

In a week, the open raw places had become healthy scabs. Maybe about a month later, healthy skin. The hair never came back.

It's called DY's Liquid Bandage.
Ingredients: Olive oil, beeswax, pasculite clay, goldenseal, bee pollen, yarroway, chlorophyll, oregon grape, cramp bark, shavegrass, myrrh, aloe vera oil, cod liver oil, tea tree oil, propolis, calendula, honey.

It's manufactured by Advanced Biological concepts, www.a-b-c-plus.com and I now buy it at KV Vet Supply, I'm on my second bottle 16 oz size.

It doesn't take much, easy to apply, I usually use it every other day to every 3 or 4 depending on what I am doing. I recently healed a hen that had a deep laceration over her thigh that was maybe a 4inch hole, you could see her poor little leg attached to her body under it, so all the way through to the skin. In about a month, she has all her feathers over the site coming in, or in, you'd never know she was hurt at all.

I put it on everything, even myself, and also, I should mention, bugs HATE it. I would think it would work well on just about any skin ailment, or wound. It's truly a miracle you just have to try to believe. I think it's like 32$, but my first bottle lasted 2 years, and I treated a horse with it first. I think chickens must be little healing machines too though, so that helps. I may copy this and post it somewhere else if it would be more helpful?

I wish the best for your little hen, and sympathize with the dog situation, I have one too. I can testify to the electric thing though, my coonhound is a chicken eater, and I keep him in check with electric. Woven wire too, but electric around the bottom.

 

[Mrs. Green Thumbs]

I'll have to take pictures of out "tractor" We are in a predicament where our yard, while large in total is not only not just ours (a communal garden) but also open to the ally behind my house so we HAVE to have a large pen and a tractor. I took my PVC pipe hoop house I use in the winter for year round gardening in my raised veggie bed and I am currently planning on covering it with chicken wire to let my girls out to graze not only in our smallish back yard... but also my front yard. No more dandy lions

less mowing

and greener grass

well personally Id rather make 4 more raised veggie beds and do away with the grass completely but at least I won't need to use chem's to make it green.

 

[sarahsark]

I'm sorry about your chickens.

I hope Batty make a full recovery.