Obligatory Introductions

[BlueBaby]

Hello, and welcome! Glad that you joined! Good luck with your flock, and in keeping your neighbors dog away from them!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[fldiver97]

Welcome Nice to have you here!

 

[slordaz]

Hello and welcome to BYC, where we all help where we can and enable each other lol

 

[drumstick diva]

Wonder if the dogs barking, makes them too stressed to act like chickens.

 

[OlSaltyRed]

Welcome to BYC! This is certainly the place to get your chicken questions answered. Hopefully the neighbor’s dog has been banned from any more visits.

I'd like to ban the neighbors!

 

[OlSaltyRed]

Wonder if the dogs barking, makes them too stressed to act like chickens.

Well it's possible but the real problems with the dog didn't start until recently so I would've thought they were crowing long before this. The neighbors dog has killed at least two chickens from my flock and injured two or three. All the injured have healed and seem to be doing quite well, sans a few peach fuzz feathers and such. This of course has led to war with the neighbors since they have three dogs they don't tie out but it's our chickens fault the dogs run around the neighborhood. We used to let our ladies free range most of the day but now they are limited to their enclosure. I think that stresses them out more than the barking dogs, however I do notice they get agitated when they hear dogs around.

 

[DiYMama540]

Welcome to BYC!! Happy to have you! Beautiful flock you have! And yes, watching the birds is very therapeutic...until you waste days upon end doing nothing else....guilty!!

 

[NHMountainMan]

Well it's possible but the real problems with the dog didn't start until recently so I would've thought they were crowing long before this. The neighbors dog has killed at least two chickens from my flock and injured two or three. All the injured have healed and seem to be doing quite well, sans a few peach fuzz feathers and such. This of course has led to war with the neighbors since they have three dogs they don't tie out but it's our chickens fault the dogs run around the neighborhood. We used to let our ladies free range most of the day but now they are limited to their enclosure. I think that stresses them out more than the barking dogs, however I do notice they get agitated when they hear dogs around.

You'll probably get advice to shoot the dogs since shooting the neighbors is very very wrong. I'd recommend electric netting. Bait the fence with bacon. The dogs will either lick it or touch with their nose. It'll only happen once. I'm new to chickens, but have kept honeybees for years - my dogs learned with one shock. And the black bears that were drawn to the hives and bacon learned quickly not to bother what's inside the net.
Good luck and welcome.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!