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[JShubin]

Id be liable to talk to owner first, maybe even offer to train the dog. Or ask if you could adopt her because you like her so much..

If that doesnt work you could try bb gun or other non-letal methods to deter from entering yard. maybe throw rocks or yell like I do with coyotes

 

[centrarchid]

Id be liable to talk to owner first, maybe even offer to train the dog. Or ask if you could adopt her because you like her so much..

If that doesnt work you could try bb gun or other non-letal methods to deter from entering yard. maybe throw rocks or yell like I do with coyotes

Already done first. Owner payed $100 for first losses in one instance, denial thereafter.
Training would be risky as would require more interaction. We are already on the verge of dog adopting us. I do not like her as much as my wife does. BB gun and rock throwing technically not legal but, all ready tried that anyway so be quite. She is used to such treatment. Shubin, I just want to steal something.

 

[roosterhavoc]

You guys are nuts. Anything kills my chickens I kill it. It's simple really. There's a few guys around here with numerous dogs. Other than the occasional dog that's been dumped (never caused a problem) I've never had a dog cause any issues. My own or anyone else's. Foxes are a different story.
By the way shubin I don't think you'd be my first choice as a dog trainer haha

 

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[Ravynscroft]

Wow! Those little ducklings got huge fast, Havoc!

Btw, personally I agree on how to deal with dogs that kill chickens... unfortunately, I have had to enforce that with neighbors dogs... twice...

 

[flypen]

Same here havoc, except I have had the neighbor's hog dogs kill a couple off the tie cord yard and he did pay. I don't care if it crawls, walks, or flies it's days are numbered if it kills any of mine.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Geee, looks like I'm missing all the fun! I only use a laptop - would die if I had to use a phone to look at anything. I use Firefox with Ghostery. Pretty much blocks all the "stuff", so no ads.

 

[sdm111]

Dogs are dogs and are always gonna be dogs however much the owners want to be in denial. I've had dog problems once after I went to the owners home and explained that if they came into my yard again they weren't making it out no more problems with those. Occasional stray but none made it through the elec fence

 

[sdm111]

Completely legal to kill dogs harassing livestock here

 

[centrarchid]

I have a reality that is still sinking in. Area here is classified as farm land yet no one makes their living by farming. All the farming is closer to a hobby even when they are working a couple hundred acres, sometimes more. I can account for a least 50 dogs within a 1 mile radius of my home. Regardless of breed, none seem to have a purpose beyond being a pet. Of those dogs, the ones most likely to cause trouble are those that are penned up most of the time since when they get out they go on a spree. No one seems to hunt despite everyone and their brother having a freaking arsenal in their cabinet.


We used to do probably 90% of our game breeding on walks that would not work without free-ranging dogs in the area. The remaining 10% of breeding was done in facilities provided by cockyard complete with a flypen setup that would cost between $50,000 and $75,000 to build from scratch. My current setup is scratched together with less than $10,000 and it requires a skill set that takes a good while to master. All of my birds are bred in a cockyard setting. Culling on the natural selection side an some even on the artificial side is largely uncoupled from physicality selected by the walk system. My chickens for the most part will allow themselves to be run down by almost any predator even when trees, powerlines, and a few buildings could provide refuge if the birds simply flew. My birds, and most likely yours as well, can fly 100 yards to alight easily on something 50 feet up, yet here they won’t.


It is legal to kill dogs going after your stock here. I have done it twice in the last 5 years so not all that soft. My dogs have killed another two dogs on my behalf and nearly did the same to a dog that is larger than my largest. Most wildlife we simply repel, with exception of opossums and snakes. Owls are a problem, or like currently not. Hawks are really cool but seldom a significant issue as I lost as many birds to a watering trough as to Coopers Hawks last fall. Now the hawks are just cool.


I have to relearn this game almost from scratch. I cannot afford a kennel of 10 to 20 hounds used for raccoon or fox. Day jobs make so no one is here during the middle of the day during the work week. My dogs, and to a lesser extent, the dogs of my immediate neighbors allow me to keep chickens in rickety and mobile pens with at least some free-range rearing of immature birds. It is not perfect, and by even my own measure somewhat perverse. Some of you are much more intensive. Based on photographs your setups have more pen coverage than grass. At this time, I am not good enough to go at it with so much control.


The death loss related to predators and disease here still needs adjusting. It will happen, but simply killing does not work when chicken killer abundance is so high and they are so mobile. Dogs coupled with fencing are my best repellents.