I love border collies, belgian tervurens and any gundogs ;)
I have a 19 week old border collie named poetry and a 4 year old bluetick coonhound named harriet.. I will hopefully be adding another border to my pack this summer to breed my other border with in a couple years
I am wanting to breed and raise birds.. the most likely breed of bird that I'm going to get is the hyacinth macaw, quaker bird or the conure. I am open to any tips about raising big birds and am open to new ways of raising the babies if you have any!! :)
try a martingale collar! they are wonderful. also work on her confidence, a confident dog is a happy dog
https://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/14_9/features/Helping-Timid-Dogs_20348-1.html
work on obedience with the dog and after the dog has a solid focus, leave it and it you can start working on obedience near the chickens(while keeping the dog on a leash) i suggest using positive reinforcement! dog respond better to it and are more likely to remember what they should and shouldnt do
can I just say those tricks aren't silly your silly for thinking that. I train my dog tricks like sit pretty, weave, paw, heel and a lot of other tricks and it gives her a job, something to do, gets her brain working and forms a bond between me and her.
hello, i'm from the rolla area but actually live in vichy, I live on a 85 acre farm with my 2 dogs (I really want to get another dog, hopefully a border collie puppy) 5 cats and one snake which we have to rehome this year. we were going to move so we got rid of all our poultry and livestock but...
so one of my family cats killed a mother bird that has 3 eggs that are in reach, so i can easily reach them but i dont know what to do with them once i get them down. i have raised nestlings before but never had to hatch them from an egg. I think the mother was a fly catcher but am unsure...