Re: Neighbors dog got in my chickens

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:41:41 -0600, hal wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:26:14 -0700 (PDT), graverobber_69@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

On Jun 28, 10:44 am, h...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
A dachshund.  Always hated those little sh**s.  This dingbat was
walking her dog and let him run off leash sniffing around my chicken
pen.  The thing found a loose spot under the wire and went in and
followed them right into the coop.  Mauled two of them.  A young
rooster got chewed up behind one wing.  His back looks kinda bloody. A
young hen was laying on her side, looking alert but unable to walk.
These are Rhode Island reds, about 5-6 weeks old.  Do I need to kill
the injured ones or can I give them awhile to see if they recover?

Hal

Yeah, Hal, I know what you mean. A lot of those small dogs were bred to
be (the general term for them) "ratters". But that in no means
justifies what the dog did your chickens. I hope you prevailed on your
neighbour to pay for the dead fowl and/or called animal control to have
that killer dog put out of its misery before it causes even more to many
of God's most noble creatures, the chicken.

nah, it wasn't the dog's fault. It was just doing what dogs do. It was
my fault really. I did not have my pen all secured yet. The chickens
are a new project for me, and I am still finishing up the coop and pen
and did not have the bottom of the fence secured all the way around and
it went under the chicken wire. I was a bit upset with the dingbat
neighbor but she felt so bad and apologized so many times that I
couldn't really blame her.

the rooster survived. He seems to be doing fine. I have 3 and I can't
even tell which one was chewed up. The hen was not able to walk after
about 3 days I put her down as she didn't seem to be recovering. So now
I'm down to 20 hens and 3 roosters. Contemplating taking 2 of the
roosters for dinner sometime soon.


Hal

WOW, I have always tried to keep an 8:1 ratio of hens to roosters.
.

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