Greetings from my mountain eyrie

[drumstick diva]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens, you are very welcome to the flock.

 

[stavo]

I live in a rural area but there aren’t a lot of fences. I have tolerated numerous dog attacks for nearly 12 months, the last was in August and her dogs tried to attack the hens through the mesh but thankfully couldn’t break in. She insists she can’t always control them and I reminded her that as a dog owner she has both responsibility and obligation to do exactly that. The shire council have now spoken with her and we’ve been incident free for almost 8 weeks now. But yes hubby is talking of fencing out a larger area under the trees for them to forage in safety

Someone who "can't always control" their dogs shouldn't own dogs. Sorry, but it's absurd that she wouldn't fully accept responsibility.

We have an invisible fence and the only time our border collie breached it was when she was running for her life from a protective deer.

 

[drumstick diva]

NSW = New South Wales I believe.

 

[Flaymm]

NSW = New South Wales I believe.

Yes, that border is about an hour south of me

 

[Ribh]

NSW = New South Wales I believe.

She's a Queenslander like me, Nancy! There's a sort of No Man's Land thing happening with the border town which can't seem to decide which side of the border it belongs on!

 

[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to BYC. I hope that you enjoy your time here.

This is a useful link to take a look at - “How to...” guides. You may wish to consider including your location under your avatar (using the guide in the link above). You can use this link to contact members in your area - Australia

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Howdy! Welcome to our FUNomenal community! Best wishes and have lots of fun!

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[Ted_Harrell]

Flaymm, I have been there recently. My neighbor is an idiot with three large Pit Bulls. One of these morons decided to used my two brown egg layers(Australorp & Red Sex Link) as a rag doll and break their necks. I wish in retrospect he had just eaten them but he left them just over on their lawn where I could see them. I am sorry for your loss. Welcome to BYC. Ask these folks anything...

 

[N F C]

Sorry for the losses, I hope you continue to be incident free now that the owner has been spoken to.

Thanks for joining us!