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Offline Rosalind

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #60 on: January 05, 2011, 07:49:52 pm »


If it is a trained dog with a harness (like for instance a seeing eye dog) it will mind its buisiness.  Once that harness is off all bets are off.  Dogs are pack animals and chickens are at the bottom of the food chain.  You can't train that instinct out of dog.  If something goes after the chicken your livestock dog could join right in.  And they don't stop.  You can loose the whole flock.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #61 on: January 05, 2011, 08:23:33 pm »
It looks like he knows less about dogs then he does about bees.
I have broken many dogs from killing chickens.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #62 on: January 05, 2011, 08:25:52 pm »

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #63 on: January 05, 2011, 08:54:56 pm »
It looks like he knows less about dogs then he does about bees.
I have broken many dogs from killing chickens.

Oooh, just what I'm looking for. We just got a new puppy and need advice on how to train him. So far, we've had to train the chickens not to run from him (fleeing chickens are just way too fun for a puppy). We keep him on a tight leash and let him watch, make sure he can't even jump forward 1 foot, as that makes the chickens run. What next?

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #64 on: January 05, 2011, 09:44:54 pm »
I grew up in a country atmosphere many years ago. I doubt you would want to hear our methods. It would land you in jail today.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #65 on: January 05, 2011, 10:22:11 pm »
I put an electric fence around the chicken pen after the neighbor's dog trashed about 7 pullets. (our dogs were in a separate pen) When our dogs got to run, they went right for the chicken coop - one zap to get their attention, and a second zap to confirm it really happened - the dogs never went near the new chickens again by association - we even eventually let the chickens "free range"
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #66 on: January 05, 2011, 10:41:05 pm »
A good rooster will put a puppy in its place right quick.

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #67 on: January 06, 2011, 12:12:35 am »
I grew up in a country atmosphere many years ago. I doubt you would want to hear our methods. It would land you in jail today.

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #68 on: January 06, 2011, 09:30:16 am »
Yes, K9, that's one of them.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #69 on: January 06, 2011, 10:05:01 am »
:lau: . . . Bless you.

Down here Rosalind, that would be "Bless your heart!"

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #70 on: January 06, 2011, 10:12:57 am »
It looks like he knows less about dogs then he does about bees.
I have broken many dogs from killing chickens.

Oooh, just what I'm looking for. We just got a new puppy and need advice on how to train him. So far, we've had to train the chickens not to run from him (fleeing chickens are just way too fun for a puppy). We keep him on a tight leash and let him watch, make sure he can't even jump forward 1 foot, as that makes the chickens run. What next?

Dog trainers tend to thump their chest saying "I can do this or I can do that."  The question is can YOU.  If the dog gets inside the electric fence the chickens are done.  If the chicken gets outside the electric fence the chicken is gone.  Never let your guard down with a dog, any dog.  It is just a warning.  You can obviously do as you please.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #71 on: January 06, 2011, 10:37:42 am »
It looks like he knows less about dogs then he does about bees.
I have broken many dogs from killing chickens.

Oooh, just what I'm looking for. We just got a new puppy and need advice on how to train him. So far, we've had to train the chickens not to run from him (fleeing chickens are just way too fun for a puppy). We keep him on a tight leash and let him watch, make sure he can't even jump forward 1 foot, as that makes the chickens run. What next?

Dog trainers tend to thump their chest saying "I can do this or I can do that."  The question is can YOU.  If the dog gets inside the electric fence the chickens are done.  If the chicken gets outside the electric fence the chicken is gone.  Never let your guard down with a dog, any dog.  It is just a warning.  You can obviously do as you please.

It's a matter of conditioning. Two shocks is enough to quell any drive less powerful than survival instinct ( = 0 )  Electricity doesn't have a "warning mode"  Also - I had results - the dogs wouldn't touch the chickens after hitting the fence twice.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #72 on: January 06, 2011, 10:59:11 am »
I grew up with a hundred plus chickens free ranging and from 5 to 25 fox hounds free ranging. Never had a problem. We did have a few killings until we would break an individual dog, but overall, it was just obstacles, not problems. No, I'm not a dog trainer. Just a country redneck that gets the job done.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #73 on: January 06, 2011, 11:31:19 am »
But today people just don't approve of the ways we use to break a dog...........

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #74 on: January 06, 2011, 11:35:38 am »
Your starting again Acebird Beleave it are not you don't know every thing ! When I was a kid if a dog killed a chicken it met it's maker. I learned at an early age how to break a dog from chasing chicken's with a little time and effort it can be done.
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #75 on: January 06, 2011, 11:43:02 am »
If I read this correctly...you got iddee, a dog, a chicken, and a necklace.

I honestly need to stop at this point.

But I understand the jail time if anyone finds out.....   :-D
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #76 on: January 06, 2011, 11:45:21 am »
You always start any dog training with two dogs.

Training is short and to the point.

When the first dog pees on the rug, you take out your gun and shoot it in the head.

Then you ask the second dog if it understands.......  :-D
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #77 on: January 06, 2011, 11:58:08 am »
You always start any dog training with two dogs.

Training is short and to the point.

When the first dog pees on the rug, you take out your gun and shoot it in the head.

Then you ask the second dog if it understands.......  :-D

LMAO.

That made me snicker.

With the missing chicken post going on 4 pages, I think its time we put her poor little face on a milk carton and offer a reward.

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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #78 on: January 06, 2011, 08:30:06 pm »

Oooh, just what I'm looking for. We just got a new puppy and need advice on how to train him. So far, we've had to train the chickens not to run from him (fleeing chickens are just way too fun for a puppy). We keep him on a tight leash and let him watch, make sure he can't even jump forward 1 foot, as that makes the chickens run. What next?

Well, there are two schools of thought. Let's call them the Time-Honored Method and the New School Style.

Time-Honored Method is to get yourself some chickens you don't care much about losing--extra roosters, sort of thing. Big, mean roosters, small puppy. Then you put the puppy in with the roosters all night and most of the day, and he will learn via the School of Hard Knocks that he needs to make nice with the roosters, the roosters are his Pack, and eventually he will guard the roosters by bonding with them, instead of with the humans. Many people swear this works, and I am sure it works fine for them.

We live in a fairly residential area; bits of our farm were sold off into suburbs ages ago, we can't afford an unsocialized dog, so we did the New School Style.

1. Make sure dog has basic obedience sorta-kinda down 95% of the time. It doesn't have to be AKC Good Citizen, but it needs to know No, Come, Sit, Down, Stay off-leash even with distractions. You can teach this as early as possible. Ensure that the whole family is being very consistent on this, the dog needs to know that nobody, NOBODY will let it get away with anything.

2. Clip a 6' leash to the dog's collar, clip the other end to your belt loop, and take dog with you daily when doing chicken chores. If the dog even looks at a chicken like it's thinking about hot wings, correct it however you normally do that. For my two dogs, a yank of the leash was sufficient most of the time, and a Cesar Millan type shoulder-poke was enough all the time. Yes, the first two weeks of filling up feeders and waterers are awkward. When shoveling poop, I just clipped them to a hitching post in the barn. Eventually, the dog will get used to the routine and Heel. How long that takes, depends on how smart your dog is: our Pyrenees was super-smart and figured it out right quick, but the Newfie was pretty thick and took months to learn.

3. Bring the dog into the coop and have it lay down calmly for a minute or two, on-leash. The chickens will slowly come up to investigate their new furry pal, and this may agitate the dog. Correct it and make it stay. Sprinkle a little scratch around the dog to encourage the chickens to come right up. Do this at least daily, then when it seems to be going well, try it off-leash, for longer and longer periods of time. Don't worry much about previous canine behaviors, chickens have short memories.

4. Put the dog in a pen with some extra roosters or mean hens. Supervise closely for a while. Gradually work up to longer time periods, less supervision. The dog, if it is still puppyish, may try to play with the chickens as if they were smaller dogs, and make sure you correct that right away. If the roosters spur the dog, or the hen attacks, make sure the dog knows the appropriate response is to back away. If it's not backing away, get in there, grab its collar, and make it back off. Eventually, you will be able to leave the dog alone for many hours, unsupervised.

They may still make mistakes; our Newfie still tries to play with chickens once in a while, she is still puppyish (2 1/2 years old). Just keep correcting, re-directing to the appropriate behavior by telling them, Sit! Down! Stay! The Pyr seemed to finally get past his playful behaviors when he tried to play with a standard-sized broody hen, and she sliced his nose open. Mostly you want to get it into their heads that this is also their pack, and build on their notion of Territory--our dogs see the barn as their Territory, and know that Birds are supposed to be in the Barn. To the point that they frequently try to herd wild turkeys, pigeons and crows into the barn when given half a chance, but that's a different issue...  :catchchick:

One more thing--try not to build too much on predator-type behaviors. Chasing toys, games that challenge their sight-type skills (throwing a small ball all the way across the yard to fetch), play-biting, all are bad news. I see lots of people allow play-biting in puppies, and then the dog grows up and they have no end of trouble with kids, neighbors and vets getting bit.

Good luck!
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Re: Missing chicken
« Reply #79 on: January 06, 2011, 09:33:03 pm »
Thank you Rosalind, I appreciate the time you took to write that up. Not sure I can do the daily chores thing, especially as it's not my chore, but I do try to take him to wherever the chickens are everytime we go outside, which is often. He's only 11 weeks old so we have lots of work to do on basic obedience and not biting...ah the joy of puppydom.

Oh and we need a rooster!