Aussies can definitely be an outdoor dog. We have a fenced yard and only really have raccoons come in at night. We have lots of those. Aussies are bred to herd cattle and work on farms and they have thick fur and can tolerate cold. Our dog sleeps out in his heated doghouse in the winter. He...
Our dog does not normally herd the chickens. But occasionally he will round them up and put them back in the coop when we ask him to. I love this! He does do this thing with new chickens where he pins them. I think he just wants them to listen to him because he doesn't harm them and he could...
We have a male 3 year old Australian Shepherd. As a puppy he actually ate a few chickens. But we watched a YouTube video on how to train them not to eat chickens, and my husband used a PetSafe training collar with him positive and negative tones, as well as a shock button. He used almost...