Help!! my Hens keep attacking my dogs! how do I stop this??

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Are they only doing it around the garden where the bird seed is? Even if they are not doing other places, since it seems to have started since you have been feeding the wild birds, you might want to stop that and see if it helps. (You probably don't want to encourage wild birds where the chickens are anyhow, since they can carry diseases and pests the chickens can get.) Do you free feed your hens / do they have food available all the time? If they do it when you are there, I'd consider spraying them with the garden hose when they go after the dogs, most chickens don't like that. (assuming the weather is warm enough).
 
Maybe the hens got word of all the new members who reported their dogs/cats, massacred their flocks. Hens feel it's their turn to push back. Let the dogs be locked up and have a turn free ranging only when the chickens have finished doing it. Yes, I'm being sarcastic. But just how manytimes, have hens have ever killed a dog/cat?

How do you stop it? You keep your chickens and dogs apart- you can't will them to be friends. Things have changed
 
They will moult every year, spring usually depending on where you live, in the midwest chickens are moulting right now. They moult to loose thier winter plumage and get kinda rough looking, but not to worry because when they are done they grow back brand new beautiful feathers and look gorgeous! Depending on where you live there is a good chance they are getting ready to moult and this is what is causing them to get cranky with your dogs.
 
most of the time its where the grass seed is, so on the lawn. However sometimes its as soon as I open the back door to let the dogs out. the Hens tend to come running as soon as they hear the door open and sometimes the intimidate and peck the dogs as they come out. The dogs walk out with their heads down and try to creep past them. I'm going to try only putting the wild bird feed at the feeding station and bird table. that way the chickens wont have access to it. the reason i out some down on the lawn for the pigeons because their are so many birds sometimes there isn't the space for them to eat at the feeding station. I will see if it makes a difference otherwise I may have to try the water in the spray bottle idea :)
 
you may be right considering the time of you and the fact that they have never molted before. thanks :)
 
It's just a shame because they use to be fine and get on well... I like letting all my animals have free run of the garden. I only put he hens in their run when the weather is bad really and I like to let the dogs come and go as they please. I will try some of the suggestions I have been given on her, if all else fails then I will put the hens in the run when the dogs are outside.
 
I had the same experience with my chickens attacking my rabbits. Before we had the rabbits, the chickens would love to go in the area where the cage is now. The chickens probably think that that specific area is their territory.
 
Not dog related and the chickens weren't being aggressive but just had to share. Happened two years ago. Before and after this the hens pretty much just ignored the cats.

:D

Five chickens in the yard scratching for goodies. My wife and I puttering around in the flower beds and garden. Our two cats outside with us. Older one sprawled out in a sunny patch of the driveway. Younger one notices the hens and starts her stalk. She’s in a bed of irises butt just a wiggling as she crouches; debating on whether to charge one of the nearby hens. One of the other hens notices the cat in the irises. The hen starts closing in on the cat. Other hens notice and join her. Now picture the scene in Jurassic Park where the pack of velociraptors have one of the people surrounded and are closing in. The cat belatedly realizes she has gone from stalker to stalked. She is looking first one way then another as she tries to find an opening to make her escape. She no longer stalks the hens and is content to just watch them from a distance.
 

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