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[superchemicalgirl]

Do you have a license? Is it in season?

 

[ronott1]

I have been hunting fruit stripe gum at almost everywhere within a 50 mile radius. Im wondering if they stopped making it....or if the mice stole it all

Amazon sells it:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=fruit+stripe+gum

 

[bamadude]

Do you have a license? Is it in season?

Ha

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Thanks, Ron.

 

[Alaskan]

 

As to dogs and chickens... I have had lots of "how to train the dogs not to kill the chickens" talks...

First, the dog needs an immediate negative when he looks at a chicken the wrong way, but it depends on how you want to do it, and how smart your dogs are.

Choices:

1. A bb gun is good to shoot the dog from a distance and from hiding. (These come in different strengths... You want one that smarts but doesn't break skin)

2. A training electric collar can do the same thing... But a smart dog will know that it is only shocked when the collar is on, and you are in sight.

3. You can take a dead chicken, and hook it up to an electric fence (you need to check the charge, and how strong the shock is before you let the dog out). The nice thing about this one is that the dog gets shocked only when he actually actually touches the chicken, but it is also a bit tricky since a dead chicken isn't jumping around, so might not trigger the dog.

We did #1, and after a week of setting up the dog, (i had kids hiding in trees and upper story house windows, then I would let out the dog all by himself)

Good luck, and super cute chicks!

 

[Latestarter]

OK, now that AL said it, it will be OK... Had I suggested shooting your dog with a BB gun, I'm sure I would have raised all kinds of hate and discontent... Thanks AL!

 

[ronott1]

OK, now that AL said it, it will be OK... Had I suggested shooting your dog with a BB gun, I'm sure I would have raised all kinds of hate and discontent... Thanks AL!

Not on this thread!

I am so old that I read the post and then could not remember if I should be outraged by it or not

 

[Latestarter]

Well.. I guess because the word "gun" is included in the training scenario it has to be bad. But you can put an electroshock collar on a dog and that is perfectly acceptable...

The only thing is, Al never finished the final sentence...

"We did #1, and after a week of setting up the dog, (i had kids hiding in trees and upper story house windows, then I would let out the dog all by himself)"

And after a week... what were the results? I would hazard a guess they were superb.

 

[vehve]

I'd say there is no right answer to how to train your dogs to be around chickens. With our labs, all we've had to do is say "no" twice to them. That's it. They know to leave them alone. Sure, they follow them around, but just to eat their poop. I trust each of our lab alone out with the chickens. The dachshund has been more of a project though. She has such a strong hunting instinct, that we haven't been able to get her to stop hounding them. Now, after a year and a half of chickens it seems that she might have mellowed out to them though. Karin had her loose in the yard with the chickens out, and she didn't care about them. I wouldn't trust her alone with them though, the wrong kind of sprint from the chickens might trigger her instincts at any moment. And she kills in an instant, only needs a second or two to dispatch a chicken.

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Al.

I had a Chow that killed my SIL's cats. One day my SIL called me and told me she was going to shoot my dog in the behind with her bb gun for killing her cats. I told her to go ahead, we had already tried everything else and she would not stop killing her cats. So when my dog went back over to her house she shot my dog in her behind. That stopped her from ever touching a cat or even looking at a cat again.

We did buy a bb gun for the rats that keep entering the pens and coop. I did try to use it to detour the dogs from messing with the chickens however it does not have enough power to go even 4'.

My dog that got into the chicken run and dispatched so many of my chickens went out to the road to greet my DH she thought and got hit and she is gone.
This is difficult as we adopted her as a 6 week old pup that was thrown out of a car while the driver was going down the highway.