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Can I shoot a dog that is killing chickens?
- Thread starter Jerry
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suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk
A mains powered electric fence is a massive deterrent.
You can make your enclosure similar to that of a pheasant release pen with net dug or pegged down, a 450mm gap and two strands of electric fence wire.
Once the hard work has been done IMO it is then dog proof.
SS
You can make your enclosure similar to that of a pheasant release pen with net dug or pegged down, a 450mm gap and two strands of electric fence wire.
Once the hard work has been done IMO it is then dog proof.
SS
Hmm, chickens are livestock, the 'fox' would need to be in the henhouse/coop when dropped (preferably with feathers in the mouth) & the police informed immediately for it all to be watertight.
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Allegedly fancy bred hunting type dogs are still being stolen to order all the time by unscrupulous gangs who target the countryside............just make sure the hole is deep & unseen
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Allegedly fancy bred hunting type dogs are still being stolen to order all the time by unscrupulous gangs who target the countryside............just make sure the hole is deep & unseen
What else are chickens apart from livestock 
www.legislation.gov.uk
Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953
An Act to provide for the punishment of persons whose dogs worry livestock on agricultural land; and for purposes connected with the matter aforesaid.
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- Highland
OMG who would shoot a dog SUSPECTED in hens without absolute proof on trail cam video???
Well, I was making the assumption, that any animal shot, was going to be in the chicken run at the time of shooting, or just vacating.
You couldn't even use the trail cam video to shoot the dog if the attack is already over. You have to catch them in the act and then you can use the dog to protect your livestock.
Prevention is better though. Shooting the dogs can lead to more problems if the owners are awkward you still have to live next to them. Last resort stuff really shooting them.
its very upsetting to have your stock worried by dogs and difficult to deal with.
Yes.
And have you ever tried catching one when you don't have a gun? Impossible it's horrible feeling so helpless running round after the damn dog not being able to do anything apart from chase it, shout and throw stones at it.
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- Montgomeryshire
^this. I don’t suppose @Jerry was looking at walking into the pub with a shotgun to sort the issue.
Personally, I don’t think I’d hesitate if I found a big fox running amok in the chickens. I might have a think what I’d do about the evidence afterwards, but I’d consider myself quite within my rights to protect my livestock.
yes .
a few times.
we even had a case where a rogue dog was using the railway as a way of running up though and 'visiting' farms beside it , we followed it back once successfully and it ended up at a 'travellers camp' 2 miles down the line, and right next to it.
got other stories as well ended ok most of them. (thus far
)worse and hardest to sort ime is when there are 2 dogs together 'on the job'
Agree. I have used 3-4 strands of steel for deterring dogs from sheep fields on advice from a TFFer
Your suggestion is a gold plated solution. Fence needs to be far enough away to stop dog from jumping over the electric and barrier fence. I now use Heras fencing and electric wire for fox proofing chook and pheasant pens.
Caught one mangling a sheep when I was trapping moles once and managed to corner it quite easily because it was fat and tired. It was a Staffordshire bull terrier type thing, big and mean looking. Didn't have a gun with me though. I walked towards it to catch it and take it to its owners who had left it in the garden and didn't know it escaped. It growled and went for me so I hit it with my spade (I took it with me expecting the barsteward thing to be nasty it had tried me before) it yelped and ran home straight into the house and the people wouldn't answer the door 
It had another go at sheep after that but the owners got rid after it was out all the time. There's only so much you can do when neighbours don't look after their dogs properly.
It had another go at sheep after that but the owners got rid after it was out all the time. There's only so much you can do when neighbours don't look after their dogs properly.
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- Highland
Show camera footage to owner. Go to police. You admitted you have only seen prints you imagine to be those dogs. That is not proof. Your word is not proof. Your understandable anger and outrage are not proof.
Please be assured we have had sheep worrying and gruesome deaths, owners identified, dogs captured, police, and all that goes with it. You need to cool down and think a bit more rationally because the police certainly will the morning after.
Please be assured we have had sheep worrying and gruesome deaths, owners identified, dogs captured, police, and all that goes with it. You need to cool down and think a bit more rationally because the police certainly will the morning after.
76masseyman
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- Lincolncestershire
If you can see it to shoot it, can you try a powerful water hose first ?
Or capture it, and take it to the pound, in the next county !
Or capture it, and take it to the pound, in the next county !
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Really?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
@Jerry wasn’t suggesting going to shoot the dogs in the beer garden, just enquiring as to his rights regarding protecting his livestock.
Presumably he’d only be shooting them, if needs be, when/if he caught them in the act.
IF they have been in a killed, then rest assured they will be back. The owners have already shown they don’t care when told their dogs are wandering, so probably only one outcome will stop it, unfortunately.