How Do You Train a Puppy to NOT KILL CHICKENS?
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- How do you train a dog to not kill chickens? You start training them as puppies, and in this video we demonstrate the methods we have used to train our bird dogs to respect our chickens and not chase, play, or kill them.
Keeping a puppy from killing your chickens begins with good barn manners. A puppy should learn not to enter a barn, farm yard, or chicken coop without your permission.
Once a puppy enters the chickens area, the puppy must be taught that those chickens are your chickens, and they are not to be chased, bit, or played with.
A simple animal lead is the only tool needed to help keep a puppy from getting in trouble during training sessions.
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My Malinois dog retired from police work when she was six yrs. old. She had never seen a chicken, but due to her intensive training to obey and listen to my every command, she quickly learned to protect my flock of chickens and turkeys. The only problem with her now is her overly aggressive behavior with anyone, other than me getting near "her" beloved birds.
Juanita Haley Frizzell lmaoo that’s so cute I have the same dog but she doesn’t have much training we had other dogs and they ate all of our live stock so I’m trying to teach this one that they are friends!
Lol don't you know their HER chickens
Ok but that's kinda cute🥺...I mean its probably not so cute when she gets agresive😅 but I mean shes protecting her chickens and that's adorable❤
awesome ... that's the dream! a dog protective of the flock. :D
My malinois killed some of my dads chickens 😰
This is exactly the video I needed. My puppy won't stop chasing my cat.
Same here, my pup chases my cat and killed and ate my chicks
@@likeaphoenix6 You have to be a strong leader. That doesn't mean beating them up but energy. Not putting up with it. I will not allow anyone to not get along.
Same here, but my car plays back, I think this is the problem...
@@likeaphoenix6 that’s a bad dog
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I rescued an 8 yr old staffordshire terrier who never been in a home and was extremely aggressive towards all animals. Through exposure and directing aggression or play towards non live toys and objects, she became great towards all animals including poultry.
Yeup, it can be done,,, good work !!
very encouraging to know !
Yes! There are many rescue dogs and mutts that are wonderful. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for this comment- we have a Staffordshire that we are working with. She’s come a long way- but has a while to go- your comment gave me a good feeling we can get there 👍😊
I have a 10 year old part terrier. We just got chickens that we want to let free range.
My dog has high prey drive 😬 so thank you for this!
Angelia Santana mine too! Only my two dobermans doesn’t kill chickens
Thank you! My husband and I really want chickens and have a German Shorthair Pointer. I love the idea of using the command, "no, mine". Thank you so much. I'll start training with stuffed animals since she thinks all stuffed toys should be hers.
Where are you from
How has training been? My husband and I want GSP as a hunting dog someday but also want free ranging chickens.
My husband had the idea of having an item that means they are in hunting mode (a harness) and when it’s not on to train them that they aren’t hunting, but Idk if it’ll work and we have yet to begin our homestead lol
This is helpful. I’m getting a GSD mix from farming lines today. And I’m realizing I take our families huge old pit bull very for granted. His impulse control is through the roof. He’s SO nice. He is a dog I 100% leave alone with my animals. My chickens free range so it’s less I let him stay in the barn with them and more he’s just out and about with them. He chases the goats a little when they’re in heat, but tbh they egg him on haha.
Sorry let me just tangent about this dog cuz he’s so good. He’s a white pit bull so he has allergies and during this Covid 19 thing we weren’t able to take him to the vet for a normal checkup and refill of his allergy meds. So his skin was getting really red and he was losing some fur. If you know chickens - you know when they see red they PECK! These birds pecked at this huge dog and he looked AT ME with this big eyes like “am I Really supposed to just tolerate this?” Hahaha. I kept him away from them at that point until his skin got better after we were able to see the vet. Poor thing.
Or the time we had a rat infestation right during chick season and he was going after rats while chicks ran over his feet and he totally ignored them. What a GOOD BOY. How his old ass knew the difference between This squeaky small thing and That squeaky small thing is beyond me. He just knew they were part of his people and never chased them.
Anyways. I’m spoiled on this dog who is basically like the Nanny dog from Peter Pan but a 120 lb pit bull haha.
I’m so excited to train a good work dog tho. Bless his heart, but this old boy isn’t learning many new tricks haha. So wish me luck with this GSD mix!
buying a male goat? Aust, be careful about letting Poppy eat chicken poop. its what causes coccidia. I'm sure you might already know this though. her training looks like it is going well. I raised Boxers on my farm and never lost an animal by them. Great video, and well needed. Hope ya'll had a great Christmas.
I KNOW. I have to get after my dogs about eating the chicken poo
This is really good to see. Chances are I'll get another Beagle as a companion one day, and there may not be good fencing on my homestead right when I move in. I know from experience, no matter how much they love you and want to please you, the fact remains that when that nose turns on, the ears turn off. I'm relieved to see that I will have a simple solution and won't have to keep my pooch on a sad tether in the yard. Thank you for showing this, and for demonstrating that it doesn't hurt.
As a lifelong city dweller, I've lost sleep pondering the very question posed in this video's title for nigh on thirty years.
At last. Thank you, stranger.
Thank you. We have a brand new purebred Newfie puppy that is 12 weeks old. He went after our chickens today and it was terrifying. We've only had him two days. He so wants to please us, but he could not control himself today in our backyard and caught a chicken and I had to rescue it. I was outside with him. We love our chickens and Newfies are so people pleasing, so we have to correct this NOW.
I train my last Rottweiler well I didn't even train him he wasn't even used to chickens we bought the chickens after he was adult and older dog and all I had to say was be nice and no and he learned for as I was raising the chicks not to go after them that that was not allowed and I never had any trouble with the dog in the chickens and they ran all over the yard
Same exact thing for us. Moved to the country with our adult dog (he's a lazy boy) and he's never paid them any attention unless he's shoving them away from his water bowl. Hoping I can get a puppy and train it to behave the same.
We have had two rotties over the years.
And they were both excellent with our free-range chickens, we actually taught them that the chickens are theirs to protect, they won't let no crow land near the chickens. And the chickens are free to peck at the dog food while the dog is eating., We also let the dog eat the chicken food, because everything in the chicken barn is the dogs and they protect it all.
Thank you. We have chickens and a Catahoula Leopard and an Australian Shepherd mix. Started training him today.
So....how did he turn out? I saw several instances while he was in the coop where he was definitely excited by the chickens, even while sitting. How did his training go?
Really wish this came out sooner😑
My shiba is gonna take WORK. She listens really well when I tell her no and to leave certain things alone.... EXCEPT animals. Omg she LOVES to kill things. Living in a suburban area, I never got the chance to expose her to animals other than dogs.
We did have mice at one point and she killed every single one of them immediately and effectively. I have never seen her Tail Wag so much as it did when she was killing them.
I knew the type of breed that I was getting and that her prey drive is very high which I fully intend to use when it comes for hunting small game. However, with her, she doesn't hear me when she is in that mode. Nothing I do save an extremely loud noise will draw her away and that doesn't do it for long.
I think it's going to take a bit longer for her but I think the most important thing, which somebody else pointed out, is that breeds with high prey drives MUST have another outlet. They just can't be told no all the time with no way to release that energy they were bred for.
if you use them for ratting or hunting, they will be much more inclined to listen when you tell them to not kill your animals because they're getting that outlet anyway.
So awesome watching a video on something I’m getting ready to go through instead of after. Going to be using quite a bit of your video. Thanks again.
great video thanks, just got a 9 week spaniel and she is so interested in my chickens. I am going to follow these tips, I liked the 'no mine' and not using treats as an incentive
I have a huskie wolf hybrid and she has gotten 6 of my birds. This info has help me
both those breeds have a high prey drive, so it will take alot f work, especially if she has already got some birds
@@GetToTheFarm it is going to take a lot.I also have to keep her entertained . She is only 2years old . I love your input. Thank you
Yikes, what a challenge! Wolves aren't pets, and huskies are just barely obedient at the best of times. My brother owned a pair husky-wolf hybrids (siblings from the same litter), and while both dogs were sweet and loving and absolutely beautiful, they were tough to control, simply because neither half of their genetics is designed to obey humans (unlike most other breeds).
Honestly, if it were me, I'd either re-home your dog, or try to find a way to keep her permanently separated from the birds. Or, the third option is just don't get too attached to your birds, and don't be surprised when she kills them periodically (and don't punish her when she gives in to her overwhelming instincts). I honestly don't believe it'll be possible for you to make her stop killing.
But I wish you well!
@@tyrroo siblings feed off each other behaviour wise, being together encourages and reinforces their bad habits somehow. My brothers had a pair who killed sheep and attacked cows together.
@Genevieve Greene That's very true. And also, my brother is terrible at dog training, he pretty much just lets them run wild until he gets angry, then bellows to scare them into behaving >:(
I've never had a problem with my dogs and chickens.
I've noticed that my dogs already respect me and my things so anything I deem mine is also theirs. A boxer, a great dane, a cas mix, a sib husky/chow/golden ret mix.
I also raised mice for my son's snake. Mt dogs also did well with them and yet kill the wild ones. I've had such wonderful responses with my dogs, I feel Blessed. The one weird thing that I did find is the sib husky mix wanted to actually put the chickens in at night. I let them free roam at day. Towards night they'd line up out side the coop and my sib husky would pick up each bird and put them inside the coop. They both loved it. So I've always had great success!
Thanks for your video!
Thank you/ this us exactly the video I needed and my pup looks a lot like yours 😊. In no addition to living in the country part time we are in service training to help in the fentanyl crisis so he will have lots of exposure - but my chickens are what I want to work on rn. Thanks again!
I got a bernadoodle thinking I could train it as a LGS for chickens and it's clear at this point the best I can hope for is to teach her not to kill them. She'll never protect birds, maybe I can train her to ignore them, but she's too obsessed with coming in the house. These are good steps though. We had to give our birds to another free-range flock when we moved next to a fox-highway, but there are some habituated turkeys that live in our front yard. I've been exposing the dog to them on a lead similarly to what you explained here. I think it's working and it helps that she's kinda scared of the giant dinosaur birds with zero fear of her. Maybe we'll be able to get chickens.
Thank you for this video, so helpful! I just got a 3 month old border collie/English setter and I’ve been wondering how to train her to leave my chickens alone. Luckily, my hens are fully contained at the moment and all she can do is gaze at them through the wire. Eventually I would like to let the hens roam around my garden for a little pest control, so we will have to start some training 👍
There are quite a few things I really like about this method. I especially love the fact that you didn’t use food or you drive to give a positive association, just because I think that would really excite the dog, as well as get the dog using their mouth more, which is definitely NOT a good thing for training to protect chickens and not kill them.
However, I would’ve loved to see more of a positive reward in some way for Poppy doing such a great job. Maybe taking her outside of the pen and loving on her to show that, when she’s around the chickens, it’s work. But her play and reward happen when she behaved around them properly.
I’m no professional, I just watch RUclips videos. But I’m studying positive reinforcement techniques more and more, and I’m trying to think of how to incorporate it.
Great job though!
Yes, I noticed she needs more positive reinforcement. Even a simple "good boy/good girl" in a higher pitched tone is great. That matched with a clicker is even better.
Sometimes that positive reinforcement can excite a puppy tho, which he was trying to avoid while in the coop.
I once had a pointer that I found in the woods, more dead than alive, nearly starved to death. I don't think any amount of training would have stopped him from going after chickens if he had the chance. That was the extreme case of a dog that has the chicken killing experience in his past. He was also very food aggressive. Those early experiences will shape a dogs behavior for life.
I brought baby chicks home and let my catahoula/pit smell them and even crawl around the yard with them. Now he shares corn with them and they sleep next to him. I leave him outside with them all the time and it’s been 6 years. He chases them for short spurts sometimes but and even plays with the rooster. I’m so happy I’m lucky enough to have such a smart dog. I just got a lab/mastiff mix, she’s 8 weeks and I’m just letting her walk around with them. I even let her in the coop cuz they can easily outrun her. She’s already seeming less interested
I've been lucky with my dogs. Both have decent prey drive, but have learnt to hold back around the chickens. Oddly enough, my kelpie/vizsla mutt is the one whose best at it despite having the highest prey drive. She is completely neutral around the chooks now. The GSD I won't leave unsupervised around the poultry. She has a snap reflex if something runs by or if she's too overstimulated. She knows she should ignore them, and will try avoid them, but if they run by her she can snap. Having said that she's never chased or injured a bird.
We have a labour cross (he was a rescue but was still a puppy when we got him) he was so naughty and we had to put a lot of effort into training him... But he has been the most amazing dog ever, he is so gentle with our other animals and pets. He has heen left alone with bunnies guinea pigs pigeons you name it... Never killed any of them.
Brilliant video ~ thank you! My Magic, 2 year old half husky half lab, is perfect with my chooks and roaming guineas, but my new puppy Koolie is staring at the chicken run like it's a flat screen tv, and she's managed to take tail feathers from my guineas. She's been monitored since, and often on a lead or tied up when the guineas are in the yard. This is exactly what I needed to see! Apparently Maremma dogs naturally protect birds - they have been used to protect penguin colonies from foxes on a small island off Australia, I had thought I would get one of those dogs next, but a little Koolie from a farm nearby kept visiting, and eventually we agreed that I am hers!
Thanks for the video! I recently got an Aussie X Great Pyrenees puppy. She’s really good with the cats, but the chickens and guinea fowl are a little too exciting! 😝 She chased around one of my mom’s hens thinking it was a playmate. I will have to try this with her.
Thank you for that. Much to often im looked down on for going to a breeder instead of getting a rescue. An that is also my response. Great work.
Is your German shepherd trustworthy with the chickens? If it was alone with the chickens? We are getting an 8 week old GSD this week and going to start working on this right away!
I have a 15 foot leash that I use to proof recalls before I add the mini-educator. I do scruff my dogs to correct them. I also have the English lead, fur savers, snake chains. I do use food and praise to train. I socialize and work my dogs hard. I have high expectations for them as adults. I don't think training dogs is hard. It's just work.
My dogs grew up wit parrots and they can walk around them as well as chickens. I am getting a kelpie Aussie mix and hope for the same again
I got a livestock guardian dog puppy and she has gotten 3 chickens so I’m really going to try and train her... any advice anyone?
I gotta try this. I’m struggling with something with my dog right now. I have a German Shepard/pit mix I rescued around 6 months old. She hated men due to what happened and was really fear aggressive to men and would flatten herself, whine, and pee when I touched her. She was scared of everyone but would growl and bark and pace around any man who went near her. She even “pecked” at their feet. (Not a bite but would push her nose into their feet and legs while growling). I did some training from several RUclips videos, seeing what worked and didn’t work, and got her to where she doesn’t do that anymore. Some people told me to just have her kenneled because it was easier and safer, but if I did that I wouldn’t have seen her improve to where she is now. She’s improved so much that I can take her to a off leash dog park and she ignores the men. She still avoids them, but she ignores them mostly, occasionally growling still if they reach out to pet her but she runs away. This took me a year to teach her, so I know she can change for the better. But now I have a new problem. My family has decided to do a “family reunion” every year. I have no friends to watch my 2 dogs, and I can’t afford a dog sitter. Which means they have to come with me. I don’t mind that, but I AM worried. My German Shepard/pit mix has no issues with dogs or children. She always tries to steal food from them, but has no aggression towards them. My issue is it will be on my Grandparents property, on a farm in Utah. My grandma feeds the stray cats and loves them dearly. My dog has a big back yard in the suburbs, with a chain link fence. She sees cats through the fence, and her tail and ears go up, she growls in short spurts while charging, her hackles go up, and she starts pacing the fence while running. When I am there, she will listen when I call to her to come. But if anyone else tells her to stop, she ignores them. While she’s never been near cats face to face, I have a feeling she may kill one if given the chance to. I have heard two options I’m not fond of, one being keep her in the crate the whole time, the other being put a shock collar on max and shock her when she charges the cat, so she thinks there’s a “electric fence” around the cats. I know she can learn, since she hasn’t killed yet. And she listens to me but only me. I watched her around frogs in the backyard to see how she would react to them; and she chased them at first, she never tried to bite them, but sniffed them and then lost interest (I’m guessing they weren’t as interesting as cats) she’s chased after lizards, bugs, a scorpion , and even a salamander that has wondered in our back yard. She never bit them, but she seemed to enjoy chasing them. I call her back away from them and she listens. I feel like since she hasn’t learned to kill or bite, there’s a chance to teach her to leave the cats alone. I don’t want her to rip a cat to pieces in front of my younger cousins. I’m willing to put in the hard work and hours to train her. But I need a safer but useful way to train her, without a shock collar and without avoiding the problem by putting her in a kennel. One day a cat may come into my yard as well, and I don’t want her to learn to kill. She may start doing that to other small animals- even small dogs, if she learns to kill. My other dog is a chiweenie. They get along fine now, but I don’t want my big dog to learn to kill.
So my 3 and 1/2 month old puppy had a little bit too much fun with one of my backyard chickens that got out of her chicken yard today. We had to put the chicken out of her misery. Any chance we can still teach him not to go after the chickens?
We always tied the dead chicken to the dog after they killed one. One lab/grayhound mix we had was notorious for killing rabbits, hens, ducks. After the "necklace of shame" she never touched another bird. We had her 19yrs.
A bit late but how long did u keep it on the her?
This is the perfect video I need, I really want a pet duck ... because their cool but it I have two 2 year old German shepherds
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I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself! XD It said how to train you're dog not to kill chickens! In the thumbnail they where ducks! LMAO!!!! XD 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great video. Thank you!
My guardian dogs are bread to hunt pigs its all about how well they are trained. great video 👍
Thank you my two dogs recently killed my entire flock of chickens. They aren’t puppies they’re 4 and 3 years old so I need all the help I can get to train them
I have a 7 year old lab. Very well trained but still doesnt have perfect recall when excited (usually around other people/animals/numerous smells). 2 weeks ago I bought 6 quail and at first she was super excited about them, but she learned fast in a few hours that they were my birds. Now she doesnt get closer than 3 metres from the cage while I feed them, and I can leave her alone in the garden with them in their coop.
Thanks, this is helpful. We have a lagotto romagnolo 6mo and she has gotten more aggressive with our two hens, chasing and pinning them but has done no damage thus far. Also, what is on your hat?
I have a black lab Great Pyrenees Anatolian shepherd is that's good farm dog?
Very well explained. Thank you.
Thank you
We have a German wired hair that I am going to try these strategies with.
How did you train your GSD
My small dogs are a good example because they don't bother the chickens or care about them. My new GIANT pup is a different story, but she is learning.
Will this work if the puppy has already tried to kill a chicken? I have a border collie and out of the blue she just attacked a rooster the other day tho the Roo survived although it was a miracle but I just don't know how to stop her from doing it again Shes been with chickens since 6 was old shes now 6 months. She chases our cats but doesn't hurt them They are friends so to speak but not the chickens and when I'm with her she never looks at them. It was totally out of the blue. Idk what to do
I’ve got a 6 month old Great Pyrenees, 100+ pounds, just killed a bird for the first time. I’m going to start teaching “mine”, I would really appreciate tips.
Have 4th duck injured from son's new puppies hoping this one makes it..Seems to happen early AM when I let them out first thing. ???? Excited to watch this- Kristy in MIssouri :)
I just recently got a Catahoula Leopard dog that think she needs to get every loose critter into a pin lol. She tries to do it to the the chicken, she tries to do it with the other dogs, she tries to do it with my kids, the goats, the donkeys lol. She doesn't hurt them or anything, she just pushes and mouths them until they get into the area she deems "safe"
Any tips on how to train her to only do that if told? I don't want to fully train it out of her because it's SO helpful when needed but I also don't want her trying to do that any time we go for a walk or do anything lol
I’m getting a pup tomorrow and I have tow chickens ones a chick and ones laying eggs. So ima take your advice on this video. Hopefully it’ helps. ☺️
Holy crap my puppy would rip my arm off in a coop like that trying to get to the chickens. I live on Kauai and we have wild chickens everywhere. My guy is a 6 month old Catahoula/pointer mix . I'm gonna try your techniques, but he wants to murder every bird he sees.
Our miniature poodle has a very high prey drive and plucked all back feathers out and nearly killed 3 of our chickens.
so what do you do when you have a dog that has already killed chickens?
This is awesome! I want to do this with my dogs. I am sure the Akita will do fine as he does fine with the feral cat, better than the Husky. But, as you said, under supervision....I want them to be with me while doing the chores but I would never leave them alone with birds. So, speaking of birds and hunting....are you going to get into falconry? You can do the hunting with the bird of prey....duck hunting in particular. A Goshawk would be a good bird of prey to help you do that....there is so much content you could create on that alone as it is a long process to become a licensed falconer (and the housing requirements, etc.).
Excellent video/advice. Yeah, I have boxers. My first boxer had a high prey instinct, most of them have pretty much. I trained him to not do this even as an old dog. I have a photo of him, my boxer puppy and a persian kitty all sitting on the sofa lol. And my current dog, 10 yo boxer does have a prey instinct too but the chicks were in the house as babies and she did kind of mouth one or two, but she knows I do not approve and she stopped. In fact, lol, she gets out of THEIR way. I think it's the owner/caretakers that are the most critical piece. Never hit a dog but social outcasting and control / ie leash. This is what I did too exactly what you are doing with my horses with my other boxer (have had a lot of boxers). I even trust my older boxer to be alone with them. They really do want to please their caretaker. Social outcasting with dogs really works. In fact, I could swear she was protective of them when we were outside...squirrels came to the edge of their pen.
Kristin Crestejo has a really good video on this for training pretty much any dog to this if you are looking for a method using LIMA
Is it to late to train older dogs? We just got 2 baby chicken today.
This is good traing but just a tip, training a dog is not supposed to be all about "no" to teach the dog the good habits it needs to learn to redirect to a better behavior rather than correcting a bad behavior constantly. Not saying your training is bad.
The reason to train the better over correcting the behavior is because it allows the dog to think and learn the habit faster Rather then wondering what does my human mean by no. Like i can't smell the animal? I can't observe the area?
Remember to teach the pup yes to not nip at the chicken, bring a chew toy to redirect to bit the toy. Sit and stay is a good behavior to understand ok i can't chase or get near these animals
what would you do with a dog that is already 2 and recently starting to all of a sudden kill the smaller chickens?
What about German Shepherds? Are they more apt to attack and kill chickens or goats? Yesterday one of my dogs killed a chicken but I don't know which one it was. The Lab was standing over it eating some of it and the German Shepherd was running around playing which makes me think it was my Lab. I never imagined she would do anything like that because she has always been so docile, accepting to the cats, and the most calm dog I've ever had. I'm currently researching the best way to retrain them both but I'm wondering your experience between the two breeds. :)
It's a good video on how to work with a young dog. I think far more trouble comes with unreasonable expectations. I have a herding dog right now who I am teaching to leave my chickens alone. I don't give him the opportunity to be alone with my chickens at this point because he isn't ready to not want to play with them. He also isn't given the opportunity to find his way into the chicken pen. He's not ready for that kind of uncontrolled wandering of the farm yet. It doesn't make him a bad dog - or even bad homestead dog. He is just a dog first, and I recognize that. Killing chickens for most dogs is a LOT of fun.
Exactly! It's not that these dogs are vicious killers, they're just curious and playful and then things escalate out of hand/paw!
Yes!!
great video ty
Do you think my 2 german shepherds that are 7 months that have killed 14 chicks will stop Killing chickens if I show them what you showed your dog?
Great video, short and to the point. ... It was a week too late for one of our chickens tho! I left our chickens exposed to dog's twelve week old puppies and well.... they struck. >_< newbie fail.
I do think it was the result of team work and a single puppy of that age would not have killed a chicken, but it was definitely my bad leaving them unsupervised.
I suggest starting with the right breed, such as Great Pyrenees. It makes the process much easier.
but how do i stop my dogs from eating my hens if they already killed? can it not be helped or do i just have to give up my dogs? i care for my dogs so much i feel so much guilt for letting my hens suffer in the processes
What happens if they already ate one we have been training them and she ate one today.
My aunt has only ever had labs and retrievers and never had any attack her free range chickens. Im personally going to get a Pyrenees.
My dog already killed two chickens, can I still train her to stop trying to kill my chickens? Shes just a puppy.... So maybe?
Thanks man that first introduction off the leash is so terrifying but our gsd did great. I felt so great walking out there with 50 chickens and a dog right behind acting like a police dog. I feel bad though told my girlfriend this dog has demon in him and will never be good around chickens. Oops
I taught a rescue Husky and Alaskan Malamute with high prey drives to not kill my chickens.... however there were a few casualties though. But now my husky will just sit there and take a nap while the chickens pick at her head
How young is the pup. Is 6 months too late to train?
Goats! Thank you for this video. Good information. Some I liked and some I would rather not have heard. Still, it gave me a place to start with my rescue.
I love your 🐕
One of dogs is perfectly trained and is even friends with our chickens and we recently got one and he if I don’t train him their gonna rehome him.
I got a rescue pup (9m). He’s killed 2 of my neighbors chickens. I’m at a loss as to how to stop it as they leave their chickens out and I don’t want to keep him locked in the house or tied up all day. It’s looking like I may need to return him :(
I’m hoping this video helps. My two labs, a puppy and a year old, will shoot past my when I open their pen and try to kill my hens. They won’t listen to me and with run off with the hen in their mouths. I’ve been lucky enough to grab ahold of them long enough to let go of the hen.
Beautiful video!
You're cleaning out the car because K is nesting! 😂
My labs live in very close proximity to our chickens so it only took a couple of days for our dogs to get used to our chickens
I love your dog training videos. Keep ‘em coming! 😀 I have a boxer/ cattle dog that’s great with our chickens, but my last dog was terrible. He had an incredibly high prey drive and I just had to be very careful he couldn’t get to them. We’re getting a puppy soon, so I want to add some extra training. Thanks!
What breed are you getting?
tyrroo I’m pretty sure I’ll be getting a pure bred Australian cattle dog. My last 2 dogs have been cattle dog mixes that were rescues. That first dog I was talking about had a lot of terrier in him and he was relentless at hunting and killing small critters. But I loved his loyalty, athleticism, and bravery. I also go backpacking quite a bit, and I love having a dog with me. I’ve found cattle dogs to be perfect for backpacking. And in the Spring we’ll be getting sheep, so I’d also like to teach the puppy some herding skills. We just moved out to a 22 acre homestead from the suburbs so now I have the space to meet the exercise requirements of the breed. I can’t wait!
Great choice! I wish you well
tyrroo yes I agree. When I adopted him over 10 years ago, I was renting and had never thought of having a homestead. I also didn’t know what his breed was, although I was pretty sure there was cattle dog in there and I was right about that. I just did my best keeping solid fencing between him and the livestock. And while I do love adopting dogs, I’ll probably go pure bred from here on out so I know what characteristics the dog will have.
tyrroo forgot to mention we did a genetic test and he did have cattle dog and lots of terriers in his pedigree. I never even tried to train him out of it. He had tunnel vision when he saw a small thing to go after. He was good at it too! He kept all of the squirrels looking for a snack away from my garden or they became his snack!
Our golden retriever is 2 years old and we’ve been researching owning a few chickens (6 or less) for a long time and really want to build a coop this summer and buy chicks at our local animal co-op but the concern over our dog being in close proximity with them has been our only hesitation stopping us from going forward with this sooner. Our dog is very well trained and obedient but has attacked a chicken before that was Unfortunately, for whatever reason, loose inside the dog park that we go to. We were the only ones there and the chicken was down a little hill out of sight when we entered the park and when I let my dog off his leash. He immediately ran across the park and found the chicken and was about 200 feet away from me when he first caught it. He was shaking it, letting it go and run a few feet and Before then grabbing it again and shaking it and doing this over and and over as I ran to get him. I had to physically pull him off the chicken so it could get away (it didn’t appear to be physically injured but quickly ran under a small hole in the fence before I could really get a good look at it.) My dog completely lost control and I had to drag him by the collar to where I dropped his leash and put him back in the car. After he was in the car I went back to try to locate the chicken and try to find out where it came from but it wasn’t anywhere in sight. I had to bring my dog to a different dog park so he wouldn’t potentially get the chicken again if it somehow re-entered the park. He was also so excited he could barely pay attention to commands so I knew he wouldn’t want to play fetch. This happened when he was maybe just over a year old. He has since been neutered and calmed down a LOT but I’m still really worried that this experience will make it very challenging for us to safely own chickens. We live in a city and have a large fenced backyard but our dog would have to be in close proximity with the chickens. We’re still trying to figure out if this is a feasible plan or if it’s too risky with our dog’s age and this past experience.
if you research about livestock guardian dogs, attacking or even killing and eating livestock should not be a deal breaker ESPECIALLY IF THE DOG IS YOUNG/ADOLESCENT or just beginning training. Alot of people believe it's a deal breaker but it's actually a myth and a lot of the time a dog can be trained out of it and they mature out the behaviors as well. If your dog is calmer now you probably can train.
I’m trying to train my puppy I don’t have a farm but we do have chickens in my property and my Doberman puppy has killed 5 already
Love that shepherd!
This was a great upload... Very informative. ATB
You absolutely can train a rescue dog
Time for the billy goat to make his appearance?
Great video!
My 10 wk old German Shepherd puppygot through the wire on my chicken yard and attacked one of my chickens I was able to call her off and get the chicken and I think the chickens going to be okay but she's been doing very well with the the chickens but then now this so I've got to get some intensive training with her because if she cannot be able round these animals then I'm going to have to find her a new home. Pray for me she's such a beautiful dog but I can't have an animal does this
Are you getting a calf?
Thanks this helps
How to baptized grip from hurting the chicken, once the hen and Chicks and rooster leave the coop put grip inside the coop until time to put the chickens back inside the coop do that for about one week after one week grip will believe that he is a chicken, and once again you guys will have some peace restored in that yard.
I have grown up with living stock, and dogs. Never had a bad like stock dog. However my dogs have killed live live stock, after years of training. Pit bulls way harder than most, I have had for years. 30 plus years of training. .
John Mittsy should re-write that so normals can understand.
My puppies were hungry in the morning and we just ran out of dog food so they went after a chicken that got out of the fence they had no problems before when they got out they just wanted to play with but not trying to kill but they got hungry so they killed one of the two that were outside the fence so you still think I could train them they are still pretty doing maybe 4 months by now and the only pet I can actually play with. Also they are outside dogs they never come in.
Having a rooster attack your dog when he lunges at the chickens works wonders! My pointer ignores the chickens now
My terrier mix has already killed 2 chickens, she was a rescue :(
Even most "rescue dogs" can be trained not to kill chickens. It is something YOU have to stay on top of and I mean STAY on top (awareness). Stern commands is a must, not physical punishment, just enough to get their attention away from what they are interested in. But as the video states, if the dog has a past of killing chickens over and over, it may be a lost cause, BUT, sometimes it can be done.
My dog always kills our neighbours chicken so half o the time since he can climb over his fence we have to keep him chained and since we don't have a dog house in the plays where we chain him he gets cold
@@cferguson6688 It's never a lost cause! You don't know how to train all animals just some.....with that kind of statement.
@@cactusladysouth1000 I'm glad you are an "expert" at training all types of animals " "with that type of statement".
@@cferguson6688 You Bet!