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[donnie]

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I have heelers, particularly the blue heeler is incredibly smart. They weigh from 40 - 50 lbs. I saw some for sale at the last blanchard auction. We just got the chickens and the dogs walked around smelling em then went and laid down. Had a chick on ones forhead just to test and he just looked at me like, really mom, this is degrading.

Also, I do not have fences that would necessarily keep my dogs in but for the most part they stay in. Only time they run out on the road is when some stray is passing.

Love love love my heelers.

I love heelers, and its great yours is that good with chickens, but yours would be more the exception than the rule, I have known more than 20 heelers in my life, and have owned 3, and that mentality in a heeler is definitely in the minority, but as I stated before i fyou can get one that lacks some of the intense drive they are bred for, they make great dogs....would love one myself if I didnt have so many dogs and could turn their 'drive dial' down a few notches...

ours has no issues with the chickens at all , but she works better than any other dog we have seen ever, and we have had her work next to other dogs and she can put them to shame

 

[GotGame]

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I love heelers, and its great yours is that good with chickens, but yours would be more the exception than the rule, I have known more than 20 heelers in my life, and have owned 3, and that mentality in a heeler is definitely in the minority, but as I stated before i fyou can get one that lacks some of the intense drive they are bred for, they make great dogs....would love one myself if I didnt have so many dogs and could turn their 'drive dial' down a few notches...

ours has no issues with the chickens at all , but she works better than any other dog we have seen ever, and we have had her work next to other dogs and she can put them to shame

that is awesome, might have to get one from you but the majority of heelers are not that way, nor are they bred for that type of work...they are bred to be aggressive heelers, aggressive enough to handle mean cattle in rough brush country....

 

[Okla-doodle-doo]

Thats awesome Donnie,now I know why you were looking for leghorn eggs back earlier!Wow wonder what a colored white silkie would be like!

Buckle down the hatches Robin! hope it blows over you and not at you!

 

[donnie]

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ours has no issues with the chickens at all , but she works better than any other dog we have seen ever, and we have had her work next to other dogs and she can put them to shame

that is awesome, might have to get one from you but the majority of heelers are not that way, nor are they bred for that type of work...they are bred to be aggressive heelers, aggressive enough to handle mean cattle in rough brush country....

thats what ours does, she loves , lives and breathes to work wild cows you can see it in her eye , you can say cows and she perks up

 

[donnie]

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i just colored an assortment of 30 eggs i got off the counter and had placed inthe bator , so some of the chicks will hatch chipmunk colored and dyed lol

 

[GotGame]

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that is awesome, might have to get one from you but the majority of heelers are not that way, nor are they bred for that type of work...they are bred to be aggressive heelers, aggressive enough to handle mean cattle in rough brush country....

thats what ours does, she loves , lives and breathes to work wild cows you can see it in her eye , you can say cows and she perks up

I had a great little red heeler male, but he was too protective of me, if you walked up to shake my hand he was liable to dart out of nowhere and you were bit before you were able to touch me...I figured out why he was in the shelter, lol....

 

[donnie]

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thats what ours does, she loves , lives and breathes to work wild cows you can see it in her eye , you can say cows and she perks up

I had a great little red heeler male, but he was too protective of me, if you walked up to shake my hand he was liable to dart out of nowhere and you were bit before you were able to touch me...I figured out why he was in the shelter, lol....

yeah ours is protective big time especially of kids and women , men are the last on her list , and for some reason she hates uniforms , kinda funny gettin pulled over with her in the truck and the police ''try'' to walk up to it and ask for id and insurance lol , she has gotten me out of a few tickets lol , and she is a bit discriminatory to other people too , but all and all she is an awesome dog

 

[CayuseRanch]

Sheesh...lots to catch up on...by the time I get to the last one it will be time for bed....skipping forward

Here I am.......

 

[donnie]

lol hey

 

[GotGame]

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I had a great little red heeler male, but he was too protective of me, if you walked up to shake my hand he was liable to dart out of nowhere and you were bit before you were able to touch me...I figured out why he was in the shelter, lol....

yeah ours is protective big time especially of kids and women , men are the last on her list , and for some reason she hates uniforms , kinda funny gettin pulled over with her in the truck and the police ''try'' to walk up to it and ask for id and insurance lol , she has gotten me out of a few tickets lol , and she is a bit discriminatory to other people too , but all and all she is an awesome dog

ya, he was super protective of my 3 year old niece, she was playing with my old boxer male, and that heeler jumped on the boxer, 'protecting' my niece, and she was in the middle of a dog fight...had to get rid of the heeler...