Anything to stop a dog from killing chickens??

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

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Ok you have two choices

1) You get a burlap sack and power cord with the end cut off of it soak the sack in water and lay it over top of the power cord now place a chicken in an area that ins not near the sack but yet close enough the dog needs to get on the sack when he does plug in the power cord after awhile everytime he even thinks about killing a chicken he will jump.


2) get a pinch collar and place it with the chain ontop and the pinchers on the bottom of his neck put him on a leash and walk him to the chickens let him get a good wiff of the chickens then yank the pinch collar now walk him away and do something else then walk him back to the chickens yank it if he even looks as if he is going to go after one you do this everytime a few times a day and we leave them alone for sure but don't trust him till you have got him broke of going after the chickens.

Good luck whichever one you choose to do.

 

[ranchhand]

Thread is over a year old folks, I'm sure the OP has resolved the issue by now!

 

[Backyard_Chicken_rancher]

Well This thread maybe a year old but it will help others who have this problem.

 

[kota1369]

Wow.............. how about training your dog!
I am trying to figure out if it is pure laziness or ugliness that would make a person torture a dog
to try to train it?
Tie a dead chicken to an electric fense? Electracute your dog!? Shot your beloved pet?
Wow........................ obviously we have a bit of both on here.
Training training training................ pinch collar and e-collar when used properly can be great tools.
So many people do not know how to use them properly.
The best way to keep your chickens safe is just that! Keep them safe. If you do not know how to
train your dog and do not have the means to do it......... give your ladies a very secure home and run.
Simple as that. It is alot easier to avoid the problem then it is to watch it unfold. Keeping chickens in a
secured area and run is not inhumane. I know free-ranging is nice. But, not all of us can do that.
Keep your chickens safe and secure and work with and train your dogs. There is nothing better then
having all your animals getting along.

The lady with 4 city chickens, 4 dogs a lizard and 2 bunnies

 

[princesseris]

im not sure of this but i was reading some people tie chickens around the dogs neck and kennel it and leave the chicken 2 rot and make sure the dog has food and water just no interactions idk sounds mean 2 me not sure i would want 2 go that route myself im just letting you know what i have read

 

[princesseris]

other wise i would just keep the dog on a dog run away from the chickens while you are not out supervising just make sure he has shelter and plenty of water i know my chickens dont go near my cousins dog they r pretty well mannered and stay in my back yard and roost on my door steps lol

 

[princesseris]

oh yeah and if you put him on a run i wouldnt make him see it as a punishment when he's on a run play w him while you can otherwise he might rebel when you put him on it just an idea

 

[Boichik86]

i started by sitting with my Husky, Chewy, just watching my young chooks/turks when they were free ranging. I would have a cigarette, cup of coffee, and just sit there next to him, petting him. I tried to create as relaxed an atmosphere as possible. If chewy would do so much as move towards the chooks, he would get a firm reprimanding. Soon the chickens approached him out of curiosity. Once he and the chooks became acclimated, I would let him investigate closer and smell them, but at the first sign of "play" he would be called back. He usually comes back, he knows we supply the food, and what will happen to him if he doesn't...I will say this, huskys are smart, headstrong, energetic dogs, but they learn fast, especially with an educational swat of the leash. Both Chewy and I are afraid of what might happen to him if he were to injure one of my precious, beloved pets. Besides, he's my BF's dog anyways, my chickens DEFINITELY hold higher rank in my home because they supply me with eggs and meat, the dog just supplies poop and drool! I don't have to worry so much anymore, now the tom turks are grown, territorial, and very protective, and Chewy wants to have nothing to do with them!

 

[spacedoutplace]

Im worried about ours too. our two dogs(lab mutt and and a pit lab) got into the coop a week ago and killed all six babys. (12 weeks?) only found out because the swans out in the pond were trumpeting! funny thing is we also have a rooster and they will lay next to him! maybe because when we got him he wasnt cooped up (no pun intented!) and the dogs got to know him. now we have eight more i got today adults though.

 

[brysuebb]

Tie the dead chook around the dogs neck Used to work with our dogs especially when the chook starts to smell