I am sick of my dogs killing chickens

[seminolewind]

This person with the dead chickens has posted 3 posts in 60.

This is the 3rd time his dachshunds have massacred his chickens.

He built a coop the day before the last massacre of 8.

The dachshunds broke thru a sturdy coop with new wire; actually broke thru the wire.

I can't make a comment about this because I want to continue to be a member here.

 

[rooster0209]

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Dachshunds weigh 10-15lbs MAX. If they can break in--anything can get in and will.

 

[Akane]

I'm gonna sit on 2 sides here. Personally I don't think there are dogs that can't be trained aside from a very small percentage that are so messed up it isn't safe to leave them alive. However a large percentage of people don't have the knowledge, patience, time, or willingness to put in the effort required to train a rather large percentage of the dogs out there. That makes some potentially very nice dogs not work out in homes with other animals or children. Since there aren't nearly enough people who can train those dogs chances are they are never going to work out in homes with those particular animals or children. Now that doesn't mean they can't turn out to be the best dog someone ever owned if you rehome them. Sometimes rehoming a dog is the best thing you could do for it and it's future owners.

The neighbors had a chow mix chicken killing dog. He escaped constantly and spent more time at our house than theirs. I thought he was the greatest dog ever around my horses. He instinctively knew just where to stand and how to flank the young horse I was working to help keep him in line and was never too rough or chased my horses unless I told him to move them a certain direction. My family debated taking him but the neighbor on the other side was the chicken owner who kept losing birds to this dog and no one really had the time to retrain the dog so he went to another home who enjoyed him just as much as I had. He was a wonderful dog for anyone who didn't own chickens. I'm sure his original owner would have just loved to see him buried as deep as possible though.

 

[ninjapoodles]

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Chicken-wire is what the dogs got through. And if there's one thing I have read on this forum more than anything else, it is the quote, "Chicken-wire is designed to keep chickens IN--it keeps nothing OUT."

The places on our fence that are chicken-wire are reinforced with electric fence. We have 7 dogs, all bigger than doxies, all with high prey drive. Not one of the dogs has had to hit that hot-wire more than once, and we've not yet lost a chicken to a dog.

 

[Beekissed]

My sister raised dachsunds and they were something else! One on one, they were the nicest little dogs....get them in a pack and they were vicious killers! I would have hesitated to leave a baby in their reach when they were in a pack. These dogs all had continuous feeders in their pens, so they weren't hungry. If a cat dropped down into the pen to get a little dog food, they would find fur and a few well cleaned bones in the morning. My sister couldn't own a cat when she raised these dogs. When they were out in the yard, they killed all her chickens, ducks, geese and a baby goat.....all in one afternoon! She never dreamed that these mini dachsunds could reek such havoc...and she was in the house with the radio on when it happened. They didn't bark or she would have heard it, as the radio wasn't loud. They just took care of business!

 

[Sherielu]

I have a dachshund and two bassets, I agree with the comments that dachshunds are hard to stop when they are after something……but I also know that some obedience training and a shock collar do offer some help. Never let a dachshund think they have you beat!

 

[azelgin]

We have one of those "Meanie Weenies" too. About five inches tall and ten pounds of fiesty K9. She was interested in the chickens until she hit the electric wire around the run. She would have run all the way to Mexico if the gate at the bottom of the hill had been open. Up until then it didn't look like we would be able to trust her around the peeps. Her attention spen is about four feet. Now she avoids the chickens like the plague. Everybody free ranges without supervision and she keeps her distance unless she is following us. Give the dogs a good zap and let them think it came from the chickens.
Good Luck.

 

[Grass]

i've helped my grandfather raise coonhounds for over 30 years and i believe any dog can be trained.you just have to prove to them that you are the one in charge not them.close suppervision and alot of one on one time teaching and training makes good dogs out of any dog.you would be surprised what a swat on the butt with a baseball hat does when traininng dogs.most start to listen at just tipping the hat towards them after a couple swats on the butt.just remember you are always the one in control.realize they do understand every word you say to them to.some just tend to ignore commands when you give them thats when you step in and do more one on one time with them.my grandfather is 83 now and doesn't do much hunting but he does still raise some of the best AKC coonhounds in the country ....he just leaves all the walking at night hunts to us younger guys and waits in the clubhouse

 

[dixygirl]

I find it odd that my dog has learned to respect the indoor parrots somewhat, but will try to kill an outdoor chuckie in an instant.

Maybe the fact that the parrots talk like a humans has a bit to do with it. My female African Gray also tortured him the first time he came close. She said" Come here" in an aggressive tone and grabbed his nose in her beak and bit down. He squealed and ran off from her and has been stand offish ever since. I still don't trust them completely though.

What i used as a deterent was keeping him on a leash separated from the rest of the indoor family for a couple months when he first came to us as a stray. Then I introduced him to the others holding him on a strong metal cable leash. If he became too interested in a bird i spanked him and yelled NO. There was a lot of yelling NO in this house for the next couple months.

When i finally let him off the leash a few months later, he was so conditioned to the word NO meaning a swift tap on the nose or the rump that he was trained like a military man straight out of boot camp.

When i bring one of my birds to the bed with me for their play time with me, i tell him NO this is their time. He will back off from jumping up on the bed and sit there looking with understanding eyes. Only once i have returned the parrot to the cage will he freely jump on the bed.

DH's parrot is a whole other thing. He lets him walk loose all around. So you will often see the parrot walking on the floor and the dog walking pass him. I've told him i do not think that is wise but it is his choice so what can i do.

If the dog goes outside and sees a chuckie, he is all over their pen jumping. Since he is primarily an indoor dog, I will just keep him separate from them.

Good luck with training. Some will say a swift slap on the hindquarters or nose with a sharp no is not acceptable to them. Well it worked for me. To each his own. I look at it this way, it is my homemade version of a shock collar.

PS Dont forget it is to be judiciously balanced with the gratuitous use of praise, petting and a "Good Boy!" when they do what you desire.

 

[Dar]

This is Tala..and she is my baby..and because of this I am allowed to say that she is not the bightest bulb in the pack..

as you can see she is not a small dog she is 120 LBS..

my solution was very simple..
I have atached her lead to my cloths line and she has the length of the cloths line to run...

I did this for about 4 weeks when my hens first came from the little coop in the basement to the coop in the yard..

after she realised that the hens were not her own buffet she is ok with them but I would NEVER let her roam in the yard alone with them, and when she gets a little to playful with them I simply reattach the lead and she settles down again...(i used a different leash from her walking lead so that its almost like the "punishment" lead and the "good girl" lead one for walks and one for business..)