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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OHJEEZE" data-source="post: 3920824" data-attributes="member: 47878">[USER=45773]@OK Corgi Rancher[/USER] I dont have goats, but been down your road with chickens.First episode was neighbors dog broke chain, killed off all my laying hens.Neighbors said, give them a value.I valued them based on egg production.Neibors son (dog owner) paid most of what I figued, and soon after got rid of the dog.Still great relations with neighbors.2nd time, a pit stray, noticed a few times running my property.Well, got a call one morning from the well guy, "hey man, you have a bunch of dead chickens over here!"Cleaned up mess, found the live ones, pached up pen, went away for a while and came back later afternoon to see the pit stray circling the pen, yipping and snapping.Stoped short, got the 22 outa the truck, and ran the next 300' using my building as cover, snuck around corner of building, and dog stuck nose in the air sniffing (winded me maybe), but the excitement got its best, and the dog went back to its attemtion on the chickens.Pop!Dog yipped and ran off, thinking I did not connect good, I ran after it, well it was a perfent heart / lung hit.Creamated that ******* in a fire where I was burning brush from clearing.Third time, was raising a batch of meat chickens, naturally they was almost almost ready to butcher.Lost about 1/3, signs all pointed towards a dog killing for the "fun".Never did find the culprit to that one, and even know they was going to be butchered, that was enough to draw out some tears from this man!I carry constantly, so my natural instinct in your case woulda been draw and fire.I respect you handling your case as you did.I hope your goat makes a full recovery!</blockquote>

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