Stray dogs

[Laura_BelgianBantams_63]

I'm so sorry about this...it is a heart-breaking tale. I have a dog called Maya - she is trained to not attack the chickens, but she looks at them strangley and threatens them by giving them a jump scare. I yell at her when she does...makes me feel terrible for you having chickens actually killed by stray dogs.

 

[jsr5]

You could get a length of the electric net fencing and a few posts you can move around to let the girls have little out of the run grazing time. Not as good as a full run but until the dogs are taken care of it would satisfy the safety aspect. probably not need the electrical just use the orange construction type stuff or whatever they have.

 

[Howard E]

To anyone wanting to give their birds yard time......less the worry about predators like the neighbor's dog.......the solution is....and always has been.......an electric fence designed and built for livestock containment and predator exclusion. No physical fence even comes close.

Dogs get the crap kicked out of them, leave and don't come back. Same fence then continues to work to keep birds in and other predators....like fox, coons, possums, skunks, coyotes, bobcats, etc. out.

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

I am sorry for your loss, and I understand your frustration.

I have not lost chickens to and predators where I currently live (knock on wood) but in a previous home, I lost quite a few to predators including dogs and coyotes. I was living with a relative at the other house, when the dog got the chickens the relative wouldn't shoot it, the dog was a bird dog.

That dog was not a stray. It was a neighbor's dog who escaped. Another dog bit one of the ducks at one point, but she survived that.

The relative did shoot a raccoon who got a duck and three or four chickens.

A neighbor's dog at my current house got into my yard. The chickens were all little at that time and were safely in the run, but the dog tore one of my PET rabbits out of the cage. The rabbit somehow survived. I wasn't really mad at the dog, just mad that it got into the yard.

 

[cmom]

So sorry for your loss. I don't have a problem with dogs but do have every other predator. I have electric wire around my coops and pens. My pens are covered with heavy duty netting and I have concrete under the gates all do to losses from predators in the past. Once a predator/dog touches the wire they don't come back to test it again. I have seen plenty of predators here but they know the electric wire is there.

This is the chick/grow-out coop. The coyote knows there is a hot wire there. I saw a fox roaming around this coop a couple of nights ago.

 

[Mom 2em All]

those of you with hot wire around a free-range area-dont the chickens get zapped, um, crispy fried?
What keeps them safe from the wire when they are out?

 

[AngieDawn]

I was just psycho granny from the Beverly hillbillies Runnin through the woods with a gun screaming and hollering after two dogs that came to kill my chickens.
killed one right in front of me- chickens screaming and trying to get away!
I didn’t know how many were killed! I tripped on a root and went splatting on the ground- got up and kept on going!
Right to the neighbors door huffin and puffin and beating on their door with my trusty rusty BB gun in hand
They directed me across the street but I came back tried to find chickens couldn’t find them- got angry again and marched my ass up the street and told that man, I was giving him fair warning that his dogs are chicken killers. Then I saw his dogs. Wasn’t them. And he said if his dogs come in my yard, shoot them. He’s a meth head.
Told my boyfriend and he said “ I don’t know what to say”.
because he’s told me endless times not to let my chickens out. But I just got home and I had just let them out and I was right there!
anyhow- I just wanted to vent. They’ve all come back except for the. Silkie they killed in front of me.
I’m so tired of stray dogs.

You need an air rifle with a scope.

 

[PatriciafromCO]

Am sorry for your loss and having to see it happening. We just got done with one group of loose dogs that started digging under our 6ft solid perimeter pasture fencing and going through cross fencing to make it up to our front property nothing like being woken up to a massive multiple dog fight in the dark. Those dogs moved on and last seen several miles from out place also causing havoc in other areas, and one confirmed dead on the road. Now we have another one pushing it's way under our main gate that we cant put on the ground due to not being able to get it open during the winter. The other interior gates are lower and the dogs can jump them to go after the dog. Two attempts from this new dog so far and it's been quiet for a couple of days am considering installing jump gates for the dogs so they not have to jump over the solid gates. My two mamma goats are so upset over it they want to stay with my one dog instead of sleeping in their own barn... It sucks to have to deal with it and the extra work it puts on us. We are the final defense because there will always be another one to try it. Having the dogs have been the best for being able to change as needed when a threat presents it's self. Hope you scared the pants off those dogs to think twice about returning.

 

[jsr5]

great news the dang dog that has killed over 40 of our girls and boys in two attacks was out again unfortunately we were out and about an hour from home. Good news my bored stiff nephew came and caught the dog crouched in the drive watching my girls. I'm sure he got here just in time a few minutes later I'd have lost some more babies.

 

[hobby chick]

OMG how brave are you! Taking on stray dogs and a meth head I'm so sorry for your lost baby.