My Dog Wants to Murder my Chickens

[GAhen]

Love you personal page....lots of good pictures!

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[Harley's girl]

My mom hatched some chicks her dog Shadow is SOOOOOO spoiled. She had to call me to come and get them. There was just no 2 ways about it. Shadow is her baby, or weather mom is Shadows baby! LOL

Anyways my point being. Mom would have to chose Shadow or chicks. She chose the Shadow. Some dogs just can't deal with chickens or cats or horses or other dogs. (You get the picture) I hope that things work out for you. I do not have a dog. But I would love to get a German Shepard. I don't know what I would do if it didn't get along with my chickens!!

I suppose you could get a small stuffed "chick" and get the real chicks scent on it and just continue to tell your dog that it is a baby and to be easy. Maybe.....just maybe you could get her used to it!!! Good luck!!


I really hope your post can make it without being closed. There are SO many people who can't handle this topic. Then they get on here rant and rave

then the post gets closed thanks to them. I feel if you can't handle what you are reading go back to the index and find a different topic. This forum is to help out each other not to run each other into the ground and call each other names, or to say that anther person is cruel. To each is his own. I feel like as long as I am paying the feed bill then my pets are my property!!!! And I should be able to do with them as I see fit!

 

[ladywolfe]

I'm a newbie to all the chickens and my dog for some reason when we bring home new chickens in cages he goes nuts! So we decided we could not be allowed to let the chickens free range. One day the dog was down at the pens and would not leave and i could not figure what was going on and went to invistigate when i got there their were 5 RIR's looking at me!!! out of their pen! he was just looking at them and walking around and not one was dead. I think he likes the chase only but i still don't let them free range because i still don't trust the dog completely. I also read somewhere here that if the dog kills a chicken to tie it around the dogs neck and leave it for awhile and that will break the dog killing the chickens. i haven't tried it thank goodness.

 

[eggchel]

I really dont think that the idea of tying a dead chicken around a dogs neck originated as a cure for chicken killing. It seems more likely to me that tying a dead chicken around the neck of a neighbor's dog after it killed the chicken would be a good cure for some neighbor's habit of letting their dog run loose.

I dont imagine that having a smelly dead chicken around its neck would bother the dog at all.
After all, dogs eat chicken poo and roll in other animal's poo. Fastidiousness is more of a cat trait.

Chel

 

[Dilly]

I see no reason for this thread to be closed, a question was asked and hard truths and replies are given. Fact is if you do not secure your chickens, they could be killed. Be it your dog or another, or some other predator.

If you do not, and you loose one, two or the entire flock, then own it. Or as they say "Man Up" To then cry about it, or play the woe is me card. Just too little too late.

Dilly

 

[erinschickens]

Thanks everyone for your ideas. Thanks particularly to ThreeBoysChicks for the info on how you reinforced your run. I'm headed out this morning to put reinforcement around the bottom third of my coop so that my dog can't chew through the wire. We'll see where we go from there.

Thanks!

 

[GAhen]

I hope all goes well for you, your dog and your flock!

 

[silkhope]

My two boys would love to have chicken for breakfast, lunch and dinner too. They're coop and run are secure but we also have the dogs on an underground safety fence and ran it so they couldn't even get within 10 foot of the chickens.

Good luck!

 

[lemurchaser]

I have 2 dogs, the one had it out for the chicks, and even tried to bite it when I was holding it. She is a very well trained dog, and I thought an introduction would help. Now the chicks are bigger, they aren't as tempting to her. As long as I'm out to keep an eye on things, she will pretend like she doesn't care, as the chickens walk right over her. I think by the time they reach full adult size ( and I got the heavy breeds for this reason) they won't be squirrel size and she'll leave them alone.

Chicks are hard for dogs to not want to chase, they excite every chase instinct. Adult birds are easier for the dogs.

 

[pattee]

My dad had a Brittany Spaniel on his farm. The nicest sweetest dog ever. My brother brought his black lab to stay with my day for a couple weeks. One night the dogs got out and went to the neighboring farm, and killed 20 sheep and made 13 ewes abort their babies... not to say that my dad and the other farmer had words! My dad paid the man.

3 weeks later the dogs went back and did the same thing. We had to put the dogs down.

I don't know why I told this story but I would be worried about dogs. Esp. if they are aggressive. Once they get a blood lust it's hard to train them out of it if ever.