Chicken Killing Family Dog

[HeatherLynn]

Please do not think I am mean when I you read what I type next.

My dogs killed 2 chicks that stuck their little heads outside the fence. They were forever barking at them also which I only decreased. I never was able to break that all together. I was furious. I calmed down and knew I had to find a way to break their facination with the chickens especially since they had a taste of blood.

I got myself a chair, a water hose and one of those heads to put on the hose that has a jet setting. I sat back talking to my chickens and sprayed the dogs every time they came up to the chicken fence to resume harassment and the little idiots kept coming back over and over to harass the chickens. I also sprayed the stupid rooster who kept putting its head out through the fence to try to attack the dogs. Noble thought but he was just going to lose his head that way. They gave in pretty quick. They were soaked and are still scared of the sprayer heads but they did not come close to the chicken fence again.

 

[Kansaseq]

Prey drive and animal on animal aggression has NOTHING to do with dog to human aggression. My dogs would kill my chickens in a heatbeat, but are not aggressive to people. My dogs and chickens also share a fenced in yard. The chickens have from dawn till 2pm,then they go into their pen, and then it's open to the dogs, and never the twain shall meet. It is up to ME to keep all of my animals safe. I would no sooner get rid of one of my dogs than I would a child.

 

[redhen]

I agree..prey drive has nothing to do with human agression...
My dog killed all my ducks..and shes still the dumbest sweetest thing.... not an agressive bone in her...
she just likes chasing birds...

 

[KinderKorner]

Shock collar may work. But once a dog kills an animal I would never feel safe to leave it with them

NEVER NEVER feed a dog eggs unless it's mixed with something. Don't just give her entire eggs.

My dog got to liking the taste of eggs. She would welcome herself right into the coop and eat them all out of the nest boxes.

Leaving none for me, scaring the hens to death, and making a mess.

We bought a pyr to guard our farm. We trained and trained, but she did end up pouncing on some birds and killing them.

We tried for a very long time. But eventually my father said no more and we had to find her a new home. If we continued working with her could she of been trained. Yes, probably. But after over a year we decided it was best for her to go to a home with kids.

All our animals run free and we couldn't leave her chained up forever. Thats no life for a dog.

She is very happy now, I seen her the other day and wished we could of kept her.

The fact it we weren't ready to devote a year or two of constantly training a dog. They take a lot of work and attention.

I do wish we had a guardian because we loose animals to possums and racoons quite often. But as if now my pet pig is taking the place of a family dog. It is sort of nice not to be jumped on and slobered by an over 100 pound animal. But I do miss it sometimes.

 

[Dar]

my moms dog killed one of our chickens. from that day on he was muzzled until he was trained... we taught him they were babies and to be nice ... it took a long time but he eventually got it... now if he has one of his stuffed animals in his mouth and you say "Oh Klondike be nice to the baby". he will drop the stuffed animal and back away from it.

Klondike is a chow/husky cross

 

[Gray Ghost]

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It would have been better if your buckeye was a Leghorn rooster. Then you could have named him Foghorn Leghorn. Who tortured the dog on a chain in the famous Looney Tunes cartoons.

GG

 

[Wolfwoman]

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I only have one word for this attitude and I can't post it here.

 

[barredrockgrl]

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I only have one word for this attitude and I can't post it here.

I agree!

 

[BellLisamo]

my aussie killed 2 of my chickens and a guinea. i disciplined him each time. now he knows not to touch my animals and the chickens can walk right up to him and eat with him.

so that saying once a killer always a killer is not true.

 

[lilblessings5]

curious- did your Aussie eat the chickens he killed?