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    Has anyone trained their dog to find eggs?

    Thanks for that Our dog is a Border Collie and is rather afraid of the hens! Although he sometimes helps round them up as long as they don't turn and face him. What made me think of the idea is that our dog is on light duties at the moment (no running) so I've been trying to think of some...
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    Has anyone trained their dog to find eggs?

    Hi there I like to let my hens out during the day (after noon), but often they haven't laid yet. One returns to the nesting box to lay but the others do not - I haven't found any egg stashes from this lot of hens but the previous ones were pretty keen on hiding them. Has anyone ever trained...
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    Hen mauled by dog

    Thanks JNB and jak. Today she took a drink of water when I pushed her head into the water trough a bit (sounds terrible but she seemed happier with that than the eye dropper). When I lift her to change the newspaper she stands and kind of has her wing flopping down, I wonder if it is...
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    Hen mauled by dog

    Hi All Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of threads about dogs mauling chickens. I wasn't home at the time but my Dad was and saw her get mauled by his friends dog (which he let off at the gate!). It happened on Friday pm (I'm in New Zealand) so that was about 72 hours ago. She has no...
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