Tips on training puppies to manage my flock, please...

[azygous]

You would gain more helpful advice on training puppies on a dog blog than on a chicken blog. But here's the answer to your last question : http://www.kountrylife.com/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?bd=forum&th=7217 You tie the dead bird around the dog's neck and isolate her from the other puppies for a week until the bird is rotten. Click the link to read the details.

There's a wealth of info on training puppies to guard chickens and not to harm them on the internet. It's done all the time with great success.

 

[RachelLeigh]

Thank you. I don't want to train a dog to be a regular dog. I am training my dog to be a livestock guardian dog and the rules are different. Can be different. Basic stuff, yes....but scolding it for harming a bird...I'm not going to find that on a regular dog site, they wont have chickens.

 

[RachelLeigh]

I know there is information online for everything under the sun we want to know. We gather here to swap stories. Why else do we have forums? I was just asking for personal tips. Its for conversation. I wasn't wanting someone to give me exact steps.

 

[RachelLeigh]

I wonder what is the next best thing BESIDES humiliating my shepherd by a rotting carcass. Sick. lol

 

[dan26552]

I wonder what is the next best thing BESIDES humiliating my shepherd by a rotting carcass.  Sick. lol

My dad beat a cat with a died chick it killed, it never touched another chicken....... My currant dog bite a chick when he first met them, my mom gave him a scolding and put him in time out, he has yet to hurt another chicken.

 

[RachelLeigh]

hmmm, ok. I bought a german shepherd magazine at rural king. its a good edition with lots on the breed in just a short magazine. What do you all think of me moving her kennel into the chicken coop to be with them? It's a big coop and her kennel was used in there to provide an extra pen and is really nice. Plenty big for her at her size and for everyone to see everyone. Will teach her patience and learning them as animal friends and part of her own, as someone suggested? Bad idea?

 

[aart]

Thank you. I don't want to train a dog to be a regular dog. I am training my dog to be a livestock guardian dog and the rules are different. Can be different. Basic stuff, yes....but scolding it for harming a bird...I'm not going to find that on a regular dog site, they wont have chickens.

Go to http://http://www.homesteadingtoday.com/guard-animals/
Post your questions there, there are at least a couple really good LGD trainers there.

 

[csaiz100]

GSD's are not flock guardian dogs, they are tending dogs

 

[RachelLeigh]

Typically? Sure. But according to a huge thread I read on here, its not the breed, its all about how you raise them, and train them and also the individual dogs personality.

 

[dan26552]

Typically? Sure. But according to a huge thread I read on here, its not the breed, its all about how you raise them, and train them and also the individual dogs personality.

Yeah it's mostly, when they were first bred German shepherds were both a fence AND guardian.