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brucifer said:
I'm sorry for your loss, and I feel bad for that poor RIR. It looks like he barely escaped with his life. As the old saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished." I don't blame you one bit for pulling the trigger on that dog.

Although my property backs up against woods that are filled with predators, my biggest concern has always been dog packs. Fortunately I have never had to take a shot at a dog, but I wouldn't think twice about it if I found a dog on my property attacking my chickens.

After this episode, I hope your neighbors do you a big favor and move.
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I was going to have to rehome a few extra roosters. I hatched all of these so all I really had in them was the feed for the last 6 months. Well, except for the MFD, I got that one from carcar. I wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger on a pack of wild dogs. I know there are small kids that live at that house and these were pets to them, I hate I had to kill one of them, but wouldn't hesitate to do it again. As for them moving, if you could see the place, you'd know it wouldn't matter, this is all thats ever going to live in a place like that.

lilwildrabbit said:
You know I have the same problem with a neibour next door he calk d AC on me and my birds in his flowerbeds well long story short his dang flowerbeds are on my property but I still had to put mine up and he still hasn't moved his flower bed I'm hoping to get a fence put up soon and when I do it will go right through the middle of his flowerbeds and then I'll make sure the chickens are there to scratch around on our side of the fence!!
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sounds like you have the same kinds of neighbors as I have.
 
Papa, I'm so sorry about you having to kill that dog. Knowing you, it probably is really hurting your conscience. I know it would me. We all love our pets. And, I'm sorry you lost birds. But, we do things we have to do to protect what is ours. I hope it doesn't make living with your neighbors miserable. Best thoughts going out to you!
 
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today I opened my pallet coop and let the 9 chickens in there out to roam the yard a while. Nothing unusal there, I do occasionally let them out. The neighbors behind us across the road, have 4 dogs that are usually on a cable, so while I was out and doing some stuff outside, I noticed them running along my fence line, their focus clearly on the chickens roaming the yard. No one was at home, so there was no way to get them to gather the dogs back up again.... I yelled at the dogs once and they high tailed back across the road. Actually one of them stopped in the road and almost got hit by a car......I didn't pay any more attention to them, as they didn't seem to me to want to cross the road again. I came back inside for a few minutes, and the lovely wife called out, "there's a chicken on the porch and a dog chasing it"...... so the dogs found the spot by the ditch they could get under. When I got outside, there were feathers everywhere, I could see a couple of chickens laying dead in the yard.....I had one of the pistols on my side, but I wasn't going to shoot toward the road. Two of the dogs ran back and crawled under, the last one turned toward me, bared it's teeth and growled, so I had no choice but to put it down. now, having said that, I'd rather have whooped the owners butt instead of killing his dog for being a dog. These are the people we've helped with groceries, given food from the freezer, veggies from the garden, yes even eggs from the coop. yet they have collected 4 dogs to have to feed???? They're also the ones we had so much trouble with not staying out of our yard, which prompted the fence installation last summer.... I walked the yard, and found two of the 9 that weren't dead, but injured pretty badly. found 3 dead bodies, and no sign of any of the others other than the feathers everywhere. I called the county police, and by the time he got here, one of the neighbors was home, and already knew what happened because another neighbor who came out, told him. When the officer got there, the guy walked over to the fence. At this time, I thought I'd lost an AM/welsummer crossbreed, my last MFD Rooster, my RIR and Buff Orp that were the only two eggs that hatched from the egg swap at GAMs last year, and 4 purebred ameraucana pullets that were already being bred but not yet laying so they were close....so the guy starts in saying the dogs probably came around through the open gate (which I had to open for the police officers)....Officer Van Dyke then proceeded to tell the guy it wouldn't matter, even if there was no fence, I had the right to protect my yard and livestock from his dogs, and then turned and asked me if I wanted press charges and file a complaint to begin the process of him having to reimburse me for my chickens, (which he told the guy were worth anywhere from $20-$40 dollars each)...so the guy changed his tune. I told him no, I didn't expect them to be able to reimburse me, I didn't want them to have to pay a fine, that they can barely feed themselves, I just didn't want any trouble over killing his dog and I wanted the dead dog out of my yard....he was very agreeable, and took the dog with him as he left. turns out Officer Van Dyke raises chickens, and rabbits. We talked quite a bit before he had to leave. ok, a long post, but coming to an end.....sitting on the porch, and a blue ameraucana comes walking around the chicken coop......puzzled me to start with, then I realized I'd had one survive. I wasn't going to try to catch her, so I figured at dusk she'd be at the coop door wanting back in. I had the two injured cockerels back in the coop already.....so just before dark I go up there, and there are 5 chickens standing there, like 'why is the door shut'.... the RIR rooster, the buff orp and the other AM pullets! don't know where they were or how they got away, but I suspect they were up in the leyland cypress trees. The poor RIR rooster doesn't have any tail feathers left at all, but the rest of them looked fine. However, one of the 2 cockerels, the Welsummer/am mix was dead when I went back up there. Funny but those two don't have any real outward appearance of being injured other than a scrape and some missing feathers, it was almost as if they were just in shock from being traumatized..... so no more letting any chickens out, fenced yard or not, until I get all the crawl through places fixed, oh, and reload here's a pic of the RIR [/quote Sorry for your loss, I know it makes it hard to put down a pet, but sometimes neighbors think of no one but themselves. Was told by AC here that cannot shoot a dog in my yard attacking my animals unless I post my property (like dogs can read) and notify the homeowners to keep their animals out of my yard. Otherwise I can be charged.
 
Hey Papachaz ... did you say that you did lose your MFD rooster? I have one that also came from carcar that I have no real need for. He's yours if you want him.
 
gunner86 said:
I will let you know it works. The pros/cons
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