we live on a farm, and we HAD some chickens. our dog would chase them around and we would try to decipline her, but she doesn’t listen. she’ll roll over and pee herself, but that’s it, as soon as you let her go, she just runs off like nothing happened.
I was at home otday, and all of a sudden she drags in this glob of mush, and I realised there were feathers attached. I took it outside, and I saw the other half of the chicken laying on the ground…
how can we stop her from doing this?? because we can’t keep an eye on her 24/7 but we can’t keep her tied up all the time either…..
we can’t just keep our chickens cooped up all day either.
there are other animals on the farm too, like ducks, hens, peacocks, and my husband’s grandparent’s chickens and stuff, so even if we could find a way to keep our chickens in, theres everyone else to worry about too….
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You didn’t tell us what breed or type your dog is.
But, my breed has a HIGH prey drive, and we also had a farm. I took the hounds on a leash, to do all the farm chores. If they showed any ’stalking’, excitement or such, I would pull them close with MILD reprimand.
The hounds got used to controlling themselves, and soon thought of the poultry and livestock as part of their job..to take care of them.
They protected them from coyotes and wandering dogs
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Stay upbeat, like you are teaching him something new, and praising as he ignores them, or merely looks on in an interested manner.
You will know that he is safe with them, when you let the leash longer, and he is still not lunging at them. Soon, he will look forward to going with you on your rounds to do the chores.
They had a hard time controlling themselves with some of the peacocks, but were perfectly safe with the rest of the animals.
It really CAN be done, as no breed has a higher prey-drive than my breed.
Edit: I sure hope you aren’t gonna fall for that barbaric "tie it around his neck" bit..I can’t believe that ancient saying is still around. Geesh! That kinda stuff went out with the ’starve em beat em to make submissive’,,
u should train her to play inside the house r where ever the chickens arent
Fence in the chicken or your dog. Keep them seperate before you lose every single chicken.
You either keep the dog in a fenced in yard, or the chickens in the coop. It’s hard to break instinct.
If it were my dog, she would be kenneled when not being supervised.
You could try using an e-collar, but even that doesn’t work if you’re not watching her.
Maybe invisible fencing so she can’t go near the chickens, or so they can get away if they want.
I s this a puppy you are talking about ? I would suggest you walk her around the farm on a lead and every time she tries to go for another animal give her a quick jerk of the lead and tell her in a stern voice LEAVE IT – l reckon with perseverance over time she will learn to leave alone…..Excellent Luck!
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Just gate the area.
You could train her to not chase the chickens when you are around, but I’m worried she won’t ever learn to leave them alone completly. Your dealing with an instinctual need to chase and kill small animals. If your dog is outside all day with these animals there is no way to prevent her from attacking them.
Try fencing in a part of your yard just for her. If you have a lot of farm animals I’ll assume you have some land.
Either that, or keep her in the house when you can’t watch her.
terrible dog
with our dog we tied the one he killed to his coller on a rope so he had to drag it behind him all day. he was mad at us for a while but he got over it and has never killed another chicken. only leave it on for one day though, after that day it starts to get nasty.
Well, as I see it you have 4 choices:
1. Get rid of the chickens.
2. Get rid of the dog.
3. Stay out with the dog, have her on lead & train her.
4. Some one gets penned. The dog or the chickens.
No simple way out of this one.
You need to socialize the dog with all the farm animals, large or small animals it makes no difference,
it is the hunt instinct and you are the only one that can break the dog of this.
if you cant keep the dog in the house, or in kennel, or even fix pens for the duck, chickens, geese, then you must train your dog to leave the other animals alone and now…before you have no more other animals.
keep the dog with you all the time while outside, and under close supervision, and shock collars are not the answer.
and letting her lay down and pee herself, and then right back up is not the answer.
get a excellent strong small leash, walk the dog several times a day around all the others, if shows signs of interest, a excellent firm pull and no, no, not jerking, yelling or hitting the dog, this is the only way you will break this baby from doing this.
excellent luck
I agree with the socializing and training posts.
another thing you can do is get a ROOSTER. The rooster will protect the chickens and the dog will learn to leave the rooster alone for sure! Downside is that Rooster’s can be mean to you too.
my dogd do the same thing, exept they play with the chicken and get a small to rough or occasionally the chickens have a heart attack, anywayz, i sugguest u keep the dog in a fenced area, not a cage, just an enclosure