Best duck for my scenario

[Oregon Blues]

I wouldn't leave a whippet unsupervised all day with ducks. That "chase it catch it" gene is strong.

However, I have owned Borzoi, Saluki, English Coursing Greyhound, and Scottish Deerhound. All of them were reliable around poultry and all were very keen hunters of their designated game, which was coyotes. Please note that they were trained to leave my birds alone. I didn't just toss them out into the yard together to see what would happen.

I've also had German Shepherds, a doberman pinscher, schipperker, and papillons. My son has English springer and Welsh Springer who worked the gun, yet would not even glance at the poultry.

It's all in doing the correct training right at the very first introduction.

 

[whattheduck]

I wouldn't leave a whippet unsupervised all day with ducks. That "chase it catch it" gene is strong.

However, I have owned Borzoi, Saluki, English Coursing Greyhound, and Scottish Deerhound. All of them were reliable around poultry and all were very keen hunters of their designated game, which was coyotes. Please note that they were trained to leave my birds alone. I didn't just toss them out into the yard together to see what would happen.

I've also had German Shepherds, a doberman pinscher, schipperker, and papillons. My son has English springer and Welsh Springer who worked the gun, yet would not even glance at the poultry.

It's all in doing the correct training right at the very first introduction.

Couldn't agree with you more! I've spent a lot of time training him already (he's 10 yrs old), however I know the breed and that chase gene can be unpredictable regardless of how well trained you think they are.

I think I just figured out how I can have a coop plus an area to be fenced off from the dog. We have an obscure layout so I was trying to wrap my brain around it, but I think I've got it! So hopefully a fenced in duck run will provide enough flexibility for everyone to have their play time but also provide the separation when needed.