BYC Café

[N F C]

Squatch is loving his brother not being there! He's in his full glory with all these girls.

Coco has changed drastically! She never had white or black on her face until a few weeks ago.

I like the white marks on Coco's face. Do you think she'll continue to get more?

 

[FortCluck]

I like the white marks on Coco's face. Do you think she'll continue to get more?

No idea I've never owned a muscovy before. She was bred for coloring. Her wings are blue and green in the sun.

 

[Shadrach]

Definitely do not want to shoot the dog, miss and shoot the sheep! Afterwards though...

Growing up, three of our dogs wandered into a field with sheep. Just being on the property got them shot

It's an interesting problem. Lots of dog owners will tell you they do train their dogs and then show you how the dog will come when called in their back yard, beg for treats, lie down etc etc.
Then they take the dog out and the dog comes across lots of stuff it just hasn't encountered before. How is it supposed to know.
Dogs get stock trained here in the mountains. pretty much everybody in this group of mountains who has a smallholding or farm has free ranging dogs. They are very rarely a problem.
In a nearby town a couple of people started up a dog training center. It was comical. This pair had apparently had dogs for many years. All the training took place in a hall.
One day they took the dogs and owners out on a walk in the mountains. They lost three dogs. and wait for it, two owners. It was well into the night before they and the Park Wardens got everyone and their dogs together.
The training center closed shortly after.

 

[N F C]

It's an interesting problem. Lots of dog owners will tell you they do train their dogs and then show you how the dog will come when called in their back yard, beg for treats, lie down etc etc.
Then they take the dog out and the dog comes across lots of stuff it just hasn't encountered before. How is it supposed to know.
Dogs get stock trained here in the mountains. pretty much everybody in this group of mountains who has a smallholding or farm has free ranging dogs. They are very rarely a problem.
In a nearby town a couple of people started up a dog training center. It was comical. This pair had apparently had dogs for many years. All the training took place in a hall.
One day they took the dogs and owners out on a walk in the mountains. They lost three dogs. and wait for it, two owners. It was well into the night before they and the Park Wardens got everyone and their dogs together.
The training center closed shortly after.

That story about a training center...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Old school here Shad yes use to train most solid dogs miss those days see them running now worries me thanks for the coffee, humans can be so stupid

 

[Meg-in-MT]

I had a problem with my very own dog killing chickens. We bought (rescued?) Nahla as a 3 month old pup that was living with her parents in a wretched chicken run/coop. She was filthy dirty and so pitiful, there wasn't a chance we were leaving without her. This was Deliverance-style backwoods country we found ourselves in, wondering aloud on the drive up why we hadn't brought a gun with us.

Anyway, at about 6 months she started killing chickens. Not sport killing, not playing and killing. She ate everything from beak to feet! I couldn't believe it. Considering where she had come from I never thought that she'd bother the chickens. Everyone said she'd never quit and that I'd have to beat her with a dead chicken or tie a dead one around her neck and scare the bejesus out of her. Of course, I wouldn't do any of those things, so I quit letting the chickens free range for about 6 months. Let them out after that and she's never done it again!

It took me a few days to realize that she wasn't getting her breakfast... Stoli (aptly named) was stealing her food in the morning and Nahla was hungry and took matters into her own paws. The more I think about it the more ridiculous it is. Obviously my own fault there. Sometimes you don't realize what's right in front of you Because of this, 6 yrs later, I still sit with the dogs at every meal

Bit of a rambley/embarrassing story that I may have told before...

 

[pennyJo1960]

Difference you are smart enough to figure it out

 

[FortCluck]

I had a problem with my very own dog killing chickens. We bought (rescued?) Nahla as a 3 month old pup that was living with her parents in a wretched chicken run/coop. She was filthy dirty and so pitiful, there wasn't a chance we were leaving without her. This was Deliverance-style backwoods country we found ourselves in, wondering aloud on the drive up why we hadn't brought a gun with us.

Anyway, at about 6 months she started killing chickens. Not sport killing, not playing and killing. She ate everything from beak to feet! I couldn't believe it. Considering where she had come from I never thought that she'd bother the chickens. Everyone said she'd never quit and that I'd have to beat her with a dead chicken or tie a dead one around her neck and scare the bejesus out of her. Of course, I wouldn't do any of those things, so I quit letting the chickens free range for about 6 months. Let them out after that and she's never done it again!

It took me a few days to realize that she wasn't getting her breakfast... Stoli (aptly named) was stealing her food in the morning and Nahla was hungry and took matters into her own paws. The more I think about it the more ridiculous it is. Obviously my own fault there. Sometimes you don't realize what's right in front of you Because of this, 6 yrs later, I still sit with the dogs at every meal

Bit of a rambley/embarrassing story that I may have told before...

Our beagle will steal everyone's food if we aren't paying attention. Our pit mix is such a pushover and doesn't do anything. Beagles are pigs She has been better though. We got her from someone who left her outside constantly and she never had interaction with other dogs until she came here.

 

[Shadrach]

I had a problem with my very own dog killing chickens. We bought (rescued?) Nahla as a 3 month old pup that was living with her parents in a wretched chicken run/coop. She was filthy dirty and so pitiful, there wasn't a chance we were leaving without her. This was Deliverance-style backwoods country we found ourselves in, wondering aloud on the drive up why we hadn't brought a gun with us.

Anyway, at about 6 months she started killing chickens. Not sport killing, not playing and killing. She ate everything from beak to feet! I couldn't believe it. Considering where she had come from I never thought that she'd bother the chickens. Everyone said she'd never quit and that I'd have to beat her with a dead chicken or tie a dead one around her neck and scare the bejesus out of her. Of course, I wouldn't do any of those things, so I quit letting the chickens free range for about 6 months. Let them out after that and she's never done it again!

It took me a few days to realize that she wasn't getting her breakfast... Stoli (aptly named) was stealing her food in the morning and Nahla was hungry and took matters into her own paws. The more I think about it the more ridiculous it is. Obviously my own fault there. Sometimes you don't realize what's right in front of you Because of this, 6 yrs later, I still sit with the dogs at every meal

Bit of a rambley/embarrassing story that I may have told before...

I think you make a very important point.
We've been extremely lucky here; the older dogs train the new ones, much like chickens.
People are not all that good at it. It takes a couple of years to train from scratch a good sheep dog here I'm told by the shepherds I know.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

I think you make a very important point.
We've been extremely lucky here; the older dogs train the new ones, much like chickens.
People are not all that good at it. It takes a couple of years to train from scratch a good sheep dog here I'm told by the shepherds I know.

This is the reason I would like to get a pup before Stoli passes away. I guarantee she saves more chickens than I'll ever know. But a pup needs guidance and who better to do that than her. To an extent, of course.