In the middle of the night last night, all the outside sensor lights suddenly came on and the dog started barking crazily. There was a strange noise that I couldn't identify and then the chooks all started making a racket. This was the result - a stray dog has killed one duck and the four young hens - it has pretty much demolished the cage!
Such a shame Dianne, that dog cause a lot of damage to livestock and property, we would have put it down to foxes over here, foxes would have taken the birds away and hidden them for later:)
Heartbreaking to wake up to that Dianne, I thoughtbat first it might be a fox but then remembered you are lucky enough not to have them in NZ. Hope the dog gets caught soon....poor hens!
Oh blooming heck, what a disaster and bad luck too, not many stray dogs around these days. When I was on the farm we came home a little bit late from dinner with a neighbour and found all our young turkies dead and mauled by a fox.
One of Kirsty's digs killed our poor Ginger tonight Dianne, we are so upset about it. The dog managed to lift the latch of the door to the van & escaped! We had to make light of it but we were really cross. Poor Ginger didn't deserve that!
Oh no :(