badkittyamy
Chirping
- Oct 20, 2012
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It does not work, how to fix it is kind of dependent on the situation. If the dog is high in prey drive you may end up simply having to not have the two come together unsupervised.
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I am so confused as to why you think a combination of a retriever and a collie both high prey drive dogs would make a good chicken dog combination. It's not rebellion or dominance it's PREY drive. You have two breeds of dogs that are high energy high prey this is normal dog behaviour. It's especially normal with two dogs bred to go after things in one way or the other.
Border Collies were bred AWAY from the prey drive. I'm not saying they don't still have it, but dogs are breed for specific things and BC's were breed to be farm dogs. And no, it wasn't the dogs fault. It was MY fault for not making it clear enough the birds are still mine when I'm out of sight....I am so confused as to why you think a combination of a retriever and a collie both high prey drive dogs would make a good chicken dog combination. It's not rebellion or dominance it's PREY drive. You have two breeds of dogs that are high energy high prey this is normal dog behaviour. It's especially normal with two dogs bred to go after things in one way or the other.
Border Collies were bred AWAY from the prey drive. I'm not saying they don't still have it, but dogs are breed for specific things and BC's were breed to be farm dogs. And no, it wasn't the dogs fault. It was MY fault for not making it clear enough the birds are still mine when I'm out of sight....
I'm having trouble putting into words what I want to sayHonestly, it depends on the dog. We've had hounds come through our yard and just ignore the birds. My sister's BC mix was GREAT with them from the beginning and she was adopted from the pound when she was 3. No idea what her background was.
It is difficult to try and explain things properly in type! Ok, IMO, Collies have had their "prey drive" bred out of them over the years in the sense that they still herd but they leave it at that although it is quite common for some to still go in too hard, if a collie is left unattended and it starts a chase it will probably get so excited it will not stop at the chase and it will kill, it will often only want to do this if the animal or bird runs, lots of collies live with cats but if they run the collie wants to chase, it is what they do! They also like things in order and will try to tidy up, your poor chickens could end up being organised all day long! Remember with the Border collie, they need a job and if they don't have one then they find their own, usually it is something totally unacceptable to us!! Keep going, I am sure you will sort your girls out and they will learn what is right and wrong but it could be that you will have to keep dogs and chooks seperateBorder Collies were bred AWAY from the prey drive. I'm not saying they don't still have it, but dogs are breed for specific things and BC's were breed to be farm dogs. And no, it wasn't the dogs fault. It was MY fault for not making it clear enough the birds are still mine when I'm out of sight....
I'm having trouble putting into words what I want to sayHonestly, it depends on the dog. We've had hounds come through our yard and just ignore the birds. My sister's BC mix was GREAT with them from the beginning and she was adopted from the pound when she was 3. No idea what her background was.