the neighbors dog killed one of my hens!

[dainerra]

in all the years i have ben living here (31 years) first of all i have never had a dog in my yard that should not be there and second of all i am yet to see a dog that can jump a 8 foot fence (and thats the minimum hight some are higher)

8 foot privacy fence

8 foot chainlink

12 foot chainlink

6 foot, straight over the top!

In obedience work for Schutzhund, the wall is 6feet. That is considered the minimum that the dogs have to be able to clear. My dogs can do 5 feet from a sit, with plenty of room to spare.

 

[zazouse]

My Aussie can climb out of the kennel and it has 6 foot high panels

 

[StealthMouse]

Exactly. Dogs don't just jump, they climb. Many dogs can scale an 8 ft fence without much trouble by jumping as high as they can and climbing the rest of the way.

 

[Buxton Ducks]

My neighbors rottweiler will run the 1/2 mile through the woods, flatten my perimeter fence, then walk around the outside of the duck pen and eat as much poop as he can. Then he runs back home and throws up duck poop all over my neighbors floor! Gross! I am constantly fixing my fence, but he is but sweet dog who has no interest in my birds. Luckily in Maine we really don't have a feral or stray dog issue. Everybody around me has dogs, including me and I have invited them all over to meet my flock at different times to do a proper intro and make sure they don't want to eat them.

 

[CAjerseychick]

My neighbors rottweiler will run the 1/2 mile through the woods, flatten my perimeter fence, then walk around the outside of the duck pen and eat as much poop as he can. Then he runs back home and throws up duck poop all over my neighbors floor! Gross! I am constantly fixing my fence, but he is but sweet dog who has no interest in my birds. Luckily in Maine we really don't have a feral or stray dog issue. Everybody around me has dogs, including me and I have invited them all over to meet my flock at different times to do a proper intro and make sure they don't want to eat them.

I have tried everything with my giant schnauzer and she still waits outside of the chicken run for any escapees to try and eat one (she has killed 4-- they were our fault-- didnt realize they would squeeze right thru Ag wire as chicks, family left door to run open and they came out and she got them, overturned cardboard tractor, etc...) on the other hand my Berner pup would never touch one... It really depends on the dog....

 

[Buxton Ducks]

Remote training collers (shock collars) also help too!

 

[CAjerseychick]

Remote training collers (shock collars) also help too!

Boot camp, a year on a shock collar, 4 rounds of obedience classes... been there done that... short of keeping her on a chain (which is not why we moved to the country).... Its just reinforcing the chicken fence for me (she does not test the chicken fence but anything outside of it is fair game)....

 

[leadwolf1]

Some dogs, no matter what you do, will never be good chicken dogs..it's just that dang prey drive that they can't control.

Boot camp, a year on a shock collar, 4 rounds of obedience classes... been there done that... short of keeping her on a chain (which is not why we moved to the country).... Its just reinforcing the chicken fence for me (she does not test the chicken fence but anything outside of it is fair game)....

 

[brahmakid11]

Well I have a 120 pound AKC registered black Labrador retriever and I let my hamster climb all over him. He wouldn't hurt a fly.

 

[ChickenJerk]

OHIO

955.28 Dog may be killed for certain acts - owner liable for damages.

(A) Subject to divisions (A)(2) and (3) of section 955.261 of the Revised Code, a dog that is chasing or approaching in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack, that attempts to bite or otherwise endanger, or that kills or injures a person or a dog that chases, threatens, harasses, injures, or kills livestock, poultry, other domestic animal, or other animal, that is the property of another person, except a cat or another dog, can be killed at the time of that chasing, threatening, harassment, approaching, attempt, killing, or injury. If, in attempting to kill such a dog, a person wounds it, the person is not liable to prosecution under the penal laws that punish cruelty to animals. Nothing in this section precludes a law enforcement officer from killing a dog that attacks a police dog as defined in section 2921.321 of the Revised Code.
(B) The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog is liable in damages for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that is caused by the dog, unless the injury, death, or loss was caused to the person or property of an individual who, at the time, was committing or attempting to commit criminal trespass or another criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor on the property of the owner, keeper, or harborer, or was committing or attempting to commit a criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor against any person, or was teasing, tormenting, or abusing the dog on the owner’s, keeper’s, or harborer’s property. Additionally, the owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog is liable in damages for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that is caused by the dog if the injury, death, or loss was caused to the person or property of an individual who, at the time of the injury, death, or loss, was on the property of the owner, keeper, or harborer solely for the purpose of engaging in door-to-door sales or other solicitations regardless of whether the individual was in compliance with any requirement to obtain a permit or license to engage in door-to-door sales or other solicitations established by the political subdivision in which the property of the owner, keeper, or harborer is located, provided that the person was not committing a criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor or was not teasing, tormenting, or abusing the dog.
Effective Date: 07-10-1987; 2008 HB71 09-30-2008


YOU MIGHT CASUALLY TELL YOUR NEIGHBORS THAT IF YOUR CHICKENS WANDER ONTO THEIR PROPERTY AND START KILLING THEIR DOGS THAT THEY ARE WELCOME TO SHOOT THE CHICKENS AND YOU WILL REIMBURSE THEM FOR THE DEAD DOGS.