PLANNED POULTRY GUARDING DOG

[centrarchid]

Have any ever touched it?
And is it expensive to run for electricity?

I recal vaguely birds getting zapped. Feathers do not conduct as well as exposed skin or short hair. Chickens also seem more pain tolerant than most mammals. They complained less than hogs, dogs or myself. Electricity requirments cheap. You can also power off grid using solar fence charger.

 

[aoxa]

I recal vaguely birds getting zapped.  Feathers do not conduct as well as exposed skin or short hair.  Chickens also seem more pain tolerant than most mammals.  They complained less than hogs, dogs or myself.  Electricity requirments cheap. You can also power off grid using solar fence charger.

Oh yes I knew they had solar electric fences

SO you've zapped yourself?

I also have a pre-existing underground electric fence. In combination with what you mentioned, should I use it or just leave it be?

 

[centrarchid]

Oh yes I knew they had solar electric fences

SO you've zapped yourself?
I also have a pre-existing underground electric fence. In combination with what you mentioned, should I use it or just leave it be?

I have been shocked many times as child and as an adult. It is not pleasant and the degree varies with how hot (free of shorts and energy imparted to fence and how good your contact with wire and ground are). Still here. For me, getting zapped occurs mostly at night when I miss judge location of fence or during winter when conditions and clothing making getting over fence more difficult.

The pre-existing invisible fence would be reinforced by a hot wire so if once fails, then other may still repell your dog. Once invisible fence needs servicing, the hot wire may be in way, so off set so they are not on top of each other.

 

[centrarchid]

NEW PUP ADVANCING


Lucy appears completely past effects of the Parvo infection. Weighs more now than before infection. She is also begining to bark when Scoob does at potential threats (lately deer eating my rose of sharon again). Scoobs just barks at deer and rolls in their poop when the deer are at most a couple hundred feet away. When he patrols he simply trots past deer. Deer are about useless anyway.

Lucy now trots ahead of me as I walk down pens each night. A couple hens with chicks I locate and place a pen over just in case predator comes through before Scoob gets onto them. Lucy gives them a sniff and then walks to next point on patrol as she knows route. We also have a cockerel with serious visual problems that was used to train Lucy a month or so ago. Bird is so visually deficient that he follows Miss Lucey even when she is annoying other birds. Lucey has no interest in him even when I boot him gently into a more protected location before placing a pen over him as well. Birds walking on ground after dark are no longer molested and she is only about 12 weeks old. Lucey is progressing faster than Scoob did.

 

[LavendarFeather]

I love reading these stories of dogs growing up with chickens! I'm now endeavoring to get my large dog to behave around my birds. I would love to be able to have the birds and dogs out at the same time. My 4 little dogs are fine around chickens, but Roman is another story. I had to rehome my Border Collie, as she had the most intense prey drive of any dog I've ever had, and was not even safe with the small dogs, much less the chickens.

I've gotten Roman to the point where I can walk him around the chicken runs when I'm checking for eggs, and he doesn't strain on the lead or worry the birds, but we've got a long way to go before everyone can be loose (if ever).

I'm so glad to hear the Lucy recovered from the parvo. Kudos to you and your vet. Parvo is a nasty thing, but in my experience, at least, when it's over, it's over. Thank God it was parvo and not distemper. That one can ruin a dog and it's never really over.

 

[mstricer]

Pits actually weigh in about 35-45 lbs.    100 lbs is going to be some type of Mastiff breed, with who knows what mixed in.

MAJOR SHAKEUP THIS EVENING

.  It was a pitbull pushing nearly 100 lbs. 

What kind of pitbull, do you have, that weighs only 35 to 45. My pit/mix weighs 72 lbs. My son has two that weigh, boy 85 lbs and hos girl weighs 75 lbs. Hell my Border Collie weighs 69 lbs and is slim. As for the wolf thing, you will need more then one LGD dog to kill a wolf, it takes at least 2 pyr's to take down a coyote. Yes pits can weigh up to 100 lbs.

 

[centrarchid]

What kind of pitbull, do you have, that weighs only 35 to 45. My pit/mix weighs 72 lbs. My son has two that weigh, boy 85 lbs and hos girl weighs 75 lbs. Hell my Border Collie weighs 69 lbs and is slim. As for the wolf thing, you will need more then one LGD dog to kill a wolf, it takes at least 2 pyr's to take down a coyote. Yes pits can weigh up to 100 lbs.

Pit Bull in function, not breed was intended statement. The big guys had an American Pitbull dam and Bull Mastiff sire. Sire is a lot bigger than 100 lbs but appears to be suffering from arthiritus. Dam may be a mix herself since she looks about 65 lbs.


My coyotes do not require two pyr's to whip. You have the big wolf intergrades, mine are the little 35 lb pure version.

Encounters involving most wildlife does not involve actuall contact. I question credibility of those in my area indicating coyotes are challenge to standard sized LGD' since the coyotes do not operate in proper packs like your version.

 

[centrarchid]

SCOOB CAN BACK TRACK POTENTIAL THREAT BY WATCHING FLIGHT DIRECTION OF CHICKENS

Today when I got home Scoob came up to greet me as I pulled in on motorcycle. We went to check on mail box and as we came back three gamestags flew towards house from field to SE. Flight distance I could see was about 100 feet, long enough to determine direction. Birds did not appear alarmed even though they flew from direction that fox would try to jump them. Scoob sprinted over where birds flew over road then turned not to where birds landed but towards the direction they flew from and then began stotting like a deer to see better over the high weeds. He was trying to find whatever flushed his birds into air. He found nothing but went into woods anyway and ran a circuit around area he patrols.

 

[LavendarFeather]

Wow! That is some dog. Love hearing about a dog using his full potential like this.

 

[centrarchid]

Wow! That is some dog. Love hearing about a dog using his full potential like this.

He is doing great but not an everything yet. That will be another couple years.