Fresh Chicken for Supper?

[Tina]

Does anyone have experience, what might be the most effective way to make your dachsies leave your neighbour´s poultry alone? Late yesterday night my Little Princess sneaked away when I opened the door and came back about half an hour later. It was very dark by that time, so it was only in the morning when I saw a dead hen lying in the yard. As my friends told me, it might have been a fox, it might have been some other dog, but I have my suspicions. Of course it is possible that Little Princess has found the hen dead, but still I have my suspicions...just to be on the safe side give me some hints. My neighbour, who has hense and geese also has a hot temper and a shotgun.

[Penny's Aunt]

The law in most states says that stock-killing & wildlife-chasing dogs can be shot on sight, without warning.

If you have to, get a hot-wire setup & put it inside your fence. If you haven't got a fence, put one up immediately. It doesn't have to encompass your whole property; just an enclosed area for the dog would be fine. A 100 ft of fencing would make a 25x25' run. Welded wire (small enough to keep small dogs inside) runs about $35 here for 3 ft hight, plus maybe 12 T-irons (about $3-4 each). That's less than $100.

How much would you pay to bring your pup back to life?

[WOTANSMUTTI]

Hallo Tina,
Glad to see mail from you again, but not about the hen! I have hens and a goose and Wotan, if he were bigger would be a real problem and would be able to kill them. Once a dog kills a chicken, it's just too much fun not to kill more. They run and squawk just like feather toys.

Face it, Little Princess is a born hunter.I also gave my other dogs the benefit of the doubt-but 25 hens later, I finally had to admit it wasn't skunks, coyotes or other "varmints". You'll have to be watching Little Princess now whenever she goes outside and hope she doesn't teach the others what fun she's having.

Always make chicken soup to get rid of the evidence and good luck!

Sonja

[Krista]

Tina is from Finland. I have no Idea what the laws are like over there. It does sound like a fenced in potty/play area would do the trick unless the chickens get inside the fence -which then they would be on your property and not the dachsie on theirs.