My dogs are demons.

[Love Donkeys]

Sorry for your loss.
We never let our Samoyed to run loose, she was always on a run or a leash. No chicken, duck, turkey, rabbit or goose was safe when she was loose.

 

[Desertguardian]

Our single chick from the first clutch was doing great. Her name was Joy. Then our husky killed her. Our second clutch gave us 3 chicks. Stormy, Peekaboo, and the third has yet to be named. Our Malamute ate Peekaboo. I’d have rehomed them both by now if it weren’t for my wife’s intercession. So this happened. I’m not done yet, but this is what I got done today. It will require more posts and I need to move a couple as well. I really didn’t want to section off my backyard. But at this point I had no choice.

Your dogs are dogs and don’t blame them for their natural instinct. You’re right to section off the yard, people must do it because it is our responsibility to protect them from all predators. Remember to use something on top as well, because there are other predators aside from you dogs and some fly. Best wishes…

 

[Ruler of the Roost]

Ok, a couple of things.
-My wife owned the husky before we met. They’ve been through so much together I’d never ask her to rehome her. She’s almost six now and she was three when we were first introduced.
- when we bought the malamute he was far younger than he was purported to be and they told us he was pure bred husky. The lies did not stop there, but yawl are right that we were not prepared for his different behaviors, but that’s because we didn’t know what breed we were being sold. He’s now four months old.
- we raised seven birds indoors, before we had the malamute, and we had the husky engage with them face to face nearly daily in an attempt to familiarize her with the ‘friends, not food’ mentality. Any signs of aggression or hostility were tamped down. She responded well to this. When we got the malamute, we walked him around the adult chickens on a leash, trying to work on his impulse control around them. Both responded very well to this training.
- the first bird that the husky got, I had been free ranging the chickens daily and I left her unattended for less than ten minutes, as I had many times before without issue. We know how that went down. I from then on have only free ranged the birds two or three times a week and the dogs went out on leashes on those days. To this day I have not figured out how the husky got the second chick. The birds were away for the night and locked up, they hadn’t even been free ranged that day. I still have no idea how that happened.
- so the second fence went up in response. I am still making adjustments and changes to it to make it as safe for the birds and the dogs, while limiting the impact to the human lives that reside underneath our roof.
-I am also making changes to the coop to make them safer inside as well.

I admit that I was emotional and irrational. I don’t really hate my dogs, I did in the moment, but I do love them and I have forgiven them at this point. Sometimes I just need a minute to get back to center. Anyways, thanks for hearing me out.

 

[CCRRED]

Our single chick from the first clutch was doing great. Her name was Joy. Then our husky killed her. Our second clutch gave us 3 chicks. Stormy, Peekaboo, and the third has yet to be named. Our Malamute ate Peekaboo. I’d have rehomed them both by now if it weren’t for my wife’s intercession. So this happened. I’m not done yet, but this is what I got done today. It will require more posts and I need to move a couple as well. I really didn’t want to section off my backyard. But at this point I had no choice.

You will need some hardware cloth around the base of the fencing. That'll keep other critters out!

 

[Kenya Mwangi]

Our single chick from the first clutch was doing great. Her name was Joy. Then our husky killed her. Our second clutch gave us 3 chicks. Stormy, Peekaboo, and the third has yet to be named. Our Malamute ate Peekaboo. I’d have rehomed them both by now if it weren’t for my wife’s intercession. So this happened. I’m not done yet, but this is what I got done today. It will require more posts and I need to move a couple as well. I really didn’t want to section off my backyard. But at this point I had no choice.

Hello I hope your dogs do not breed puppies that hate chickens too.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hello I hope your dogs do not breed puppies that hate chickens too.

Who said anything about them breeding them?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Ok, a couple of things.
-My wife owned the husky before we met. They’ve been through so much together I’d never ask her to rehome her. She’s almost six now and she was three when we were first introduced.
- when we bought the malamute he was far younger than he was purported to be and they told us he was pure bred husky. The lies did not stop there, but yawl are right that we were not prepared for his different behaviors, but that’s because we didn’t know what breed we were being sold. He’s now four months old.
- we raised seven birds indoors, before we had the malamute, and we had the husky engage with them face to face nearly daily in an attempt to familiarize her with the ‘friends, not food’ mentality. Any signs of aggression or hostility were tamped down. She responded well to this. When we got the malamute, we walked him around the adult chickens on a leash, trying to work on his impulse control around them. Both responded very well to this training.
- the first bird that the husky got, I had been free ranging the chickens daily and I left her unattended for less than ten minutes, as I had many times before without issue. We know how that went down. I from then on have only free ranged the birds two or three times a week and the dogs went out on leashes on those days. To this day I have not figured out how the husky got the second chick. The birds were away for the night and locked up, they hadn’t even been free ranged that day. I still have no idea how that happened.
- so the second fence went up in response. I am still making adjustments and changes to it to make it as safe for the birds and the dogs, while limiting the impact to the human lives that reside underneath our roof.
-I am also making changes to the coop to make them safer inside as well.

I admit that I was emotional and irrational. I don’t really hate my dogs, I did in the moment, but I do love them and I have forgiven them at this point. Sometimes I just need a minute to get back to center. Anyways, thanks for hearing me out.

 

[Kenya Mwangi]

Who said anything about them breeding them?

Hello I said anything about breeding them when I said I hope the dogs don't breed and make puppies that hate chickens. I think this world needs more dogs that love to protect chickens, not eat them. So for that reason I hope they don't have puppies.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hello I said anything about breeding them when I said I hope the dogs don't breed and make puppies that hate chickens. I think this world needs more dogs that love to protect chickens, not eat them. So for that reason I hope they don't have puppies.

I agree but they never mentioned anything about breeding them so I’m just curious why you’d bring it up or how it’s relevant to the situation. The dogs are probably spayed and neutered anyways.

 

[McChooky]

Once a dog gets the taste of blood there is no way to retrain it. Put it down. Sorry, but he will kill again and maybe get into other's chickens.

Not true! They're are plenty of people here who will attest to the fact that young dogs in training are known to slip up and kill birds when young but make excellent guardian dogs as mature adults.I trained 2 adult hounds to protect my chickens so I had to protect them from my own dogs for 2 years.I've never lost a chicken when my dogs are outside