My dog is a chicken eater, don't know what to do

[David61]

I have and use one. Sport Dog brand. It comes with a training video and you rarely us the shock as it has a audible tone and two vibration modes as well as shock. Its a training collar and you train your dog. The shock is dial able and you use the lowest setting to "stop" very bad behavior. Sport Dog warns you to not use the shock but as last resort to like fighting, running into the road... Its a training tool to communicate your needs not punish. If my American Bull dog see a deer while walking off leash in the park, i can now stop her with just a word and vibration at the same time. Its all on the training CD that comes with it. Don't buy the $30-$55 cheap collars. They don't last long or work well. Sport Dog is water resistant, rubber plug seal. I had my dog at the creek all day today. My collar is two years old and battery still last 12 hours before charging. $125-$165 but you get what you pay for. They full support and will sell replacement parts. Professional training tool. Its the bomb if you will just follow instructions to the Tee EVERYDAY a few times a day for at lest three or four WEEKS. Constancy is the key. The method/ training is simple and anyone can follow. The hard part and key is to not miss a day what so every.
LOL After 8 weeks i was down at my friends pond and she was doing everything i told her to do while using the collar and controller. you give verbal command at the same time you push the button on the controller using tone or vibrate. When we got in the truck to leave i noticed i forgot to turn the collar on!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It’s been my experience shock collars don’t work. Dogs hair is too thick to bother them.
Or my dogs just didn’t care.
Cyclone fencing with chicken wire perimeter on the inside of the cage to keep dog from digging out. Much like you’d do for chicken coop with wire on the outside

Get your groomer or vet to shave the dog's neck where the collar fits. The dog will certainly care!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I think I sent you a pm (private message). Look at the top of the page and see if there is a number on the little envelope. If so, click it. If not, let me know and I will try again. I'm a retired professional trainer.

 

[David61]

Get your groomer or vet to shave the dog's neck where the collar fits. The dog will certainly care!

A good collars come with long and short contacts for different coats of hair so no need to shave. And like i posted before, shock is rearly needed once you have trained. They know what you want and with just a little sound or touch/vibration they come around. Like Caesar does on TV, just a reminder. but when they bolt in a parking heading into traffic chasing a cat and tone or vibrate doesn't work? Roll the knob to shock and they stop on the spot. Then give the verbal comand and a vibrate. They are right back on track. They work if you put the time in.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Why on earth did you think tying a dead chicken to a dog's neck would do anything other than give the dog easy access to what she didn't finish eating first time around.? You mention "spent a couple hundred on her since" as maybe a reason for keeping the dog...good breeders spend thousands getting championships and health clearances and learning . You can't do the championship part because she's a mixed breed, like you could get at the shelter. None of this is Rosie's fault but please spend your time learning more about keeping chickens and dogs responsibly, and in the meantime please don't make more of either. Someone who can't figure out how to even keep them apart has no business doing either.

That was a common practice back in the day.
The idea was that you leave it till it rots and then some. The nastiness of it would "cure" the dog's habit. Many swore by it and have passed it down I guess all the way till now.
I love these posts. Lots of ridiculous ideas out there now days. Sometimes I think lack of sense is a new thing. These posts remind me it's always been around.

 

[Painted Calls]

That was a common practice back in the day.
The idea was that you leave it till it rots and then some. The nastiness of it would "cure" the dog's habit. Many swore by it and have passed it down I guess all the way till now.
I love these posts. Lots of ridiculous ideas out there now days. Sometimes I think lack of sense is a new thing. These posts remind me it's always been around.

I've never understood the "logic" behind this practice either. My dogs purposely seek out rotting carcasses to eat/roll in. Strapping one to their collar would be a reward and a treat. Dogs love nasty stuff.

To the OP - I think training and a SECURE area for both the dog and the chickens is in order.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I've never understood the "logic" behind this practice either. My dogs purposely seek out rotting carcasses to eat/roll in. Strapping one to their collar would be a reward and a treat. Dogs love nasty stuff.

To the OP - I think training and a SECURE area for both the dog and the chickens is in order.

You have had some nasty dogs. It would not work on yours.
I image used motor oil wouldn't work on them for mange either.

 

[Painted Calls]

You have had some nasty dogs. It would not work on yours.
I image used motor oil wouldn't work on them for mange either.

I'll never forget the time Kahlua found a nasty rotting fish on the beach and rolled all over it. I was camping. She had to sleep in the tent with me that night.

 

[Isadora]

I'll never forget the time Kahlua found a nasty rotting fish on the beach and rolled all over it. I was camping. She had to sleep in the tent with me that night.

 

[Shadrach]

I have an Aussiedoodle dog, just barely a year old, and we didn't socialize her very much with chickens when she was younger, and now we're worried it's too late. Her name is Rosie. She is a little over 40 pounds.

She tries to "play" with our cat, but he can take care of himself. She had one close call with my OEGB hen but I stopped her.

Late August she caught and killed one of my Australorps while we were gone. We tried to tie the hen to her neck, but she got it off and ate more of her. It was a mess.

I have had all my chickens confined in their coops since then, except sometimes in the evenings when I watch over them while they play in the chicken yard (which is fenced off from the rest of the yard, and we do our best to keep Rosie out of).

Today I had one rooster isolated from the others in a small pen. But in the matter of a few hours Rosie broke into the chicken yard and broke his pen open. This time she ate him pretty fast and all I found was feathers.

Both of these losses weren't chickens I loved, and they don't matter to my breeding programs, but that's not the point.

Rosie doesn't know that killing chickens is wrong. But if it came down to it, I would choose my chickens over her. But my whole family loves her (including myself) and we've had her since she was a puppy. And we bought her for over $1000 to breed her, and have spent a couple hundred on her since.

Please help, we don't know what to do. I've heard mixed results about shock colors.

Thanks in advace!

Dogs and chickens can live together. In fact you can get dogs that are trained to guard chickens, or you can train dogs to do it.
It seems from your post that you already had chickens when you got the dog.

The most informative part of your post is this.

And we bought her for over $1000 to breed her, and have spent a couple hundred on her since.

and to read later that while your coops are secure, the run isn't.

Say you were successful with breeding your dog. How were you going to cope with a litter of excitable pups running around and the chickens?
True, hindsight is a wonderful thing, but then again, so is a bit of planning.
Everywhere I've lived where there has been livestock or even pets, if a dog kills an animal then you shoot the dog. Harsh perhaps but in the long run it's the only sensible option. Once a dog has done it once it is unreasonable not to expect it to do it again. If you give, or sell the dog to someoone else, you are just moving a problem dog on, not addressing your responsibility as the owner.

There are a few posts where people have written that they never let their dog have access to thhe chickens. One day someone will forget. It's almost inevitable.

For others who read this post who have chickens and want a dog, get a farm dog who is farm animal trained. Better still, get a young dog from parents who are farm animal trained.

There is no such thing as a completely secure coop or run. You can deter most predators with security measures but accidents and carelessness happen. Better by far in the long run is to have dogs that know not to bother the other creatures where they live.