The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on January 31, 2012, 08:35:27 pm
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i thought id lost fernando to the fox, early this evening i caught a dog walking off with one of my chooks in its mouth. a couple of guys have been logging in the woods opposite me and its one of theirs, ive been over and given them hell, threatened to report them for not having the dog under control and theyv offered a tipper load of firewood as a repairation. im happy with the swap, but im angry as hell. oh well, its sorted my issue about which cockerel to keep and ive got another bird hung. if i see that dog again ill shoot it. not a good day.
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tell them you will shoot it and then next time they will know what will happen. how much has that tipper load cost them? hope you dont have it happen again not a nice time
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It's bl**dy annoying when things like this happen. I had a similar problem with my neighbours dog last year. When he was taking it for a walk off the lead, it ran into my garden and attacked some chicks on my front lawn. He was apologetic and offered to pay for the chicks but that wasn't the point. People need to realise that dogs, when not under a watchful eye, can revert to being wild and wolf like and attack livestock. Now he walks his dog on the lead so at least he's learned something.
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I don't even trust my OWN dogs with my ducks and chickens. Mind you my trainer says he can stop them chasing so we'll see what our next lot of training classes brings.
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i will say that when i saw the dog i growled 'stay' and he stayed, 'drop it' and he dropped it, 'sit' and he sat and let me tie him and walk him to his owner. tbh i was quite impressed, and i did tell the owner that, dogs will be dogs, it was a rottie x.
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wev had livestock bitten by a dog, was offered the vet bills to be paid for but thats not the point. if u wanted the money, ud have sold the animal, not everything has a price.
luckily our 3 dogs are good with poultry but it took a while, now its just the eggs they steal, even my gsd can squeeze thru a pop hole to get an egg!
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My dogs don't get near the chooks. They have stopped barking at them through the window ages ago thankfully. Mum JR is the only one I wouldn't worry about, when they were free ranging, she was more interested in their food! My young male JR has picked up eggs from inside the caravan door after I've collected them and carefully carried and stashed them in his bed :D
I've had to put mesh over the roofs of my runs as my neighbours cats have become very interested in my pekins and silkies as the cats have gotten bigger, cats are not a year old yet. Not so interested in the Orpington cockerel :o
I'd be mad if someone else' s dog bothered my hens though, it's bad enough saving them from the fox.
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My collies don't bother about the hens, except to eat layer pellets and poo; Meg's fine with all the stock. Tess can be nippy around sheep and the ponies - dives in for a nip at heels, if I don't watch her. Smokey gave her a knock a few weeks ago, which has put her off a bit. Fortunately, he's not shod and he was more warning her than having a real square go.
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Watch they don't eat too much of the pellets, Rosemary, a friend's dog had to be operated on to remove a huge chunk that had solidified in her stomach. ::) It couldn't pass through her, hence the operation. She was fine afterwards, but cost them a fair bit of money.
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The old way of curing a dog of chicken chasing was to tie an Indian game cock by it's legs to the dog's collar , they seldom needed a second dose.
People wanting to pay for dead birds get a shock when you point out that they can cost £50/£70 per bird for pedigree breeds.
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we lost pullets to a visiting cat, thats just as bad as they can climb high fences and get into the paddock.
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my chickens tend to chase my cats around, its really funny!