Dogs and chickens?

[TimberLine Homestead]

Also why did you chose those breeds

 

[TimberLine Homestead]

I taught our dog come so if she is doing anything shes not suppose to she will listen to my voice she is usually always obedient but its like you said about your dog she get distracted sometimes

 

[TimberLine Homestead]

Chickens at the beginning of lay regularly lay shell-less and soft shelled eggs. It also happens sometimes to older birds due to hormone fluctuations in the fall and spring. I have three dogs and they don't effect the chickens laying at all.
Keep exposing him in environments where he will succeed and distract him with other tasks. If he's paying the chickens no mind, great, you can move a little closer. If he "locks on" to the birds and stops listening you're too close.
"Leave it" might be a useful command to teach.

I agree

 

[TimberLine Homestead]

I have taught our dog to
sit
lay
stay
come
paw
eat(for when I give her food)
As they get older they should settle down
I would teach him around the chicken a good treat is dog food if you give him treats all the time he will get used to them and bored of them I use dog food to train
Things you will need for training
Dog food of if you choose treats
A leash
And a good attitude

 

[TimberLine Homestead]

Oh thank you! I’ll definitely give that a go!

Also that’s exactly what happened the eggs - They were laying without shells and some with shells were very easily breakable. After reading through these comments I’m starting to think it may have had more to do with the hens’ young age rather than the dog.

I’ll start reintroducing the puppy to them then!

Make sure that your feeding your hens calcium of they should have access to it

 

[TimberLine Homestead]

Good he should learn a lot when he is young

 

[Rainorshine]

It is doubtful that the presence of your pup caused the birds to lay 'premature' eggs. I would suggest obedience training of the pup, leashing until trained, and never being left alone with your flock. Good luck.

To be honest I can’t be certain that that was the cause. I just read up on it and found that it was a possibility, and it just seemed a bit too coincidental that they stopped laying premature eggs after we took the puppy away. I did look into it at the time though, they were quite young layers so that may just be the cause of it. I took the puppy away as a precautionary measure because I wanted to eliminate any possible causes, and it seemed to work. But you don’t think that it’s related?

I wouldn’t leave him alone with them anyhow, I just don’t want to run into any horrible incidents which could’ve been avoided.

 

[Rainorshine]

Thanks. I’m hoping it won’t have to come to that but I’ll bear that in mind.

 

[Rainorshine]

We have pit bull mix when we got our chicks they were a couple days old and she wasn't to sure about them and wanted to be ruff(she was about 10 months old then she is 2 now). I trained her to be nice by letting her watch them daily(she also has a problem she really love to herd them and will try to nip them if they are out of place) and she was able to be on a leash when we let them free range. I would start training you puppy now then introduce them to each other slowly. Your chickens might get stressed at first but, when he is train he should settle down a bit our dog Josi did

That’s good to hear, very reassuring. Our puppy is a bull terrier cross.

I guess I’ll start bringing him out to the chickens again then. Thank you!

 

[Rainorshine]

ADORABLE

Thank you very much