Poultry and Dogs - Who Has Happy Pictures and Stories?

[teach1rusl]

Here's my sweet Bear (RIP 2010) with our outgoing BR Dixie when she was just a pullet.



Here's Diesel, who we brought home as a pup after we lost Bear. I worried that another dog wouldn't do as well as Bear with my girls. But he's great with them, although his tail can sure send them squawking at times:

 

[chickenlover237]

my dog hasnt really seen any chickens yet (except on youtube) but she really likes to look at the eggs and she likes watching chicks on youtube. when she hears peeping from the computer she often tries to find the source of the noise and when she does she just walks away. she loves me...

 

[mommissan]

Nixie is a German Shorthaired Pointer, a bird hunting dog. She hunts birds with me, but our chickens aren't birds, they're pack members. Many days she sits in the yard guarding them. She's even driven away a Broad-winged hawk. Nothing is funnier than watching the flock AND her eat scratch off the driveway.

 

[Dolly1218]

This is my Shih Tzu Benjamin, he is turning 5 years old in a couple months. He is always checking on his 3 Indian Runner duckling sisters. The ducklings are kept in my room and he will whine to come in just to check. When they are all out playing, he is soo gentle. He knows they are babies, and will just move over 2in when they pull his tail, but lay right back down to cuddle. He is such a sweetie. He keeps a very watchful eye on them, he does this with the human babies that come over too.



As you can see Rachel just pulled his tail, and is still trying to. She is such a bully to everyone lol.

 

[Dudu]

Wonderful photos and stories.... I haven't even gone through all the pages yet, I will be back on this thread for sure...

My mixed breed dog Chilly turned out to be VERY gentle with my chickies. She mostly gets to see the ones we bring home (i.e. are unwell). Surprisingly, she really pays attention when there's a newcomer - if she hasn't seen the chicken before, she gives it a thorough sniffing examination, as if asking - "And who are you? I don't reckon I've met you before"

Here are a few pics.

Chilly with my little rooster Pawlu who cannot walk, suspected Marek's (in this photo he was doing better).

Here she's trying to invite Indy, our very thin and weak Aseel mix baby, to play with her:


Indy loves to pick on Chilly's toenails too, LOL, she sometimes has to retreat up on my bed but even then Indy will notice her paws hanging off the bed and come bite her nails, LOL.

Chilly trying to get Indy's attention but Indy is just chilling, LOL.


And here is a very recent one of Chilly with our layer hen Dorothy who suddenly went blind. Dorothy loved to walk around the box room and when she wanted to rest, she stayed near Chilly where it's warm and at times tried to climb on Chilly's back or step over her nose. It was amazing to observe Chilly afraid to move a muscle not to disturb or scare the old girl. Sadly Dorothy developed strange seizures and is no longer with us. I miss her so.




Needless to say I'm thankful for my Chilly who is ever so gentle with my chickies (and when she does want to play, she never hits anyone with her paws accidentally - she really does take care....)

 

[Dudu]

Nixie is a German Shorthaired Pointer, a bird hunting dog. She hunts birds with me, but our chickens aren't birds, they're pack members.

Good girl!!! My Weimaraner Audry was the same way - I didn't have chickies then but we visited friends who had geese and swans and she was just amazingly calm around them. And she too used to participate in hunt tests and hunt. Just goes to show how intelligent our babies are.

 

[tinamommy727]

I have the best animal family in the world, I have a 6 month old Saint Benard Sampson, a two year old English Mastiff Brutus, I also have five cats. My chickens are two buff orphingtons and two leg horn hens, and my rooster is either a Barred Rock or leghorn, They ALL get along great. The dogs and chickens share the backyard, the chickens are free range, they have a coop in the backyard and in the garage, they pick which one they want to sleep at night in, My coop in the garage opens up in the front and yesterday morning I couldn't find Sampson, he was sound asleep in the coop and the chickens decided that if he was in there they wanted to be in there too, I have a Saint Benard laying on one side and four hens laying there eggs on the other side while the rooster looked on disaprovingly.

 

[OmeletMan]

There are some great pics and stories in this thread.

We have been trying to instruct our dog to be indifferent to poultry. We are getting chicks at the end of the month.

He is fascinated with wild turkeys, but seems less interested in the free range chickens in the neighborhood. Its all about training.

 

[Snoopy712]

When I was a kid, on Easter morning we had a chick wander into our yard. So we took it in and started caring for it. The dog we had at the time (mix breed) was suprisingly gentle with it. They became best friends it seemed. The chicken would jump on our dogs back and ride around the yard on him. And our dog wouldn't mind. All the time we'd see the chicken riding on his back. If the chicken was out of her pen there was a good chance she would be riding the dog!

 

[AnimalCrazed]

I love that!!!
This is koda my 7 year golden retriever! He was once a trained bird dog but we don't have time to go anymore.... but he makes the best chicken dog! When we are out in the yard with the chickens he watches them roam and doesn't bother them at all! If anything comes onto our yard koda chases it off with the most ferocious bark he has... he never ever barks at anything not even other barking dogs so to all of the sudden hear him barking and chasing something off was a new thing for me the first time i heard it!!

(i have a thread about him called "night watch dog?")