Training a poultry gaurd dog.

[nzpouter]

Well I messed up then! darn it!

nah... I dealt with chicken killers before and turn them around... the main idea is to teach the dog to ignore the chooks, always keep calm around the chickens even when they are squawking and flapping around.. divert the dog's attention and keep it on you. The biggest problem with dog and chickens is the chase instinct, stop this and half your problem solved.
We always keep our dogs with other animals, and they are fed raw. Anybody that tell you about "the taste of blood" is not worth listening to.

 

[jrz9]

I have seen a method similar to this one work on a very barky and snappy dog.

Dogs are good learners you just have to teach the right lessons.

 

[Lewbylew99]

What i did was got the dog on her collar and picked up the chicken to let my dog sniff the chicken and lastime a fox came into the garden my dog ran to the hutch/coop and scared the fox away... And so thats how i trained my dog obvs it took a couple of days... but it works just dont let the dog sniff the chicken right into her feathers make sure you have got the dog on a tight collar.

Hope this works,
By the way i have a German Sheppard,

Lewbylew99

 

[furbabymum]

nah... I dealt with chicken killers before and turn them around... the main idea is to teach the dog to ignore the chooks, always keep calm around the chickens even when they are squawking and flapping around.. divert the dog's attention and keep it on you. The biggest problem with dog and chickens is the chase instinct, stop this and half your problem solved.
We always keep our dogs with other animals, and they are fed raw. Anybody that tell you about "the taste of blood" is not worth listening to.

Ha. Don't worry. I don't believe in the taste of blood. Or if they bite a human they'll want to do it again. I've been bit a couple times interrupting fights and they've never tried to do it again.

And yes. He most certainly wants to chase them which is the biggest problem. Otherwise he will sit out there all calm...until they run.

 

[EmAbTo48]

We are getting a Great Pyrenees this coming Spring as a puppy to be a LGD on our farm she will be raised outside to the point the animal will want to stay outside to run its boundaries for danger. We are buying from a family that has these dogs as working dogs the puppies will be raised by the parents and introduced to chickens, ducks, sheep, cows you name it. They will learn quickly by their parents that these are not toys to chase. These dogs are bred to be guard dogs so for yours to be actually chasing another animal clearly means this is not why you bought the dog in the first place. They make wonderful pets but their instinct is to protect. I really don't know how you can get a adult dog from stopping this behavior as a puppy they learn right away that this is something I need to guard and take care off.

You could try leash training where he drags a leash around and if he runs after the chickens/ducks he gets corrected with a NO Chase. But how he will understand to protect from this point I am not sure. This is for a dog trainer to deal with.

 

[furbabymum]

We are getting a Great Pyrenees this coming Spring as a puppy to be a LGD on our farm she will be raised outside to the point the animal will want to stay outside to run its boundaries for danger. We are buying from a family that has these dogs as working dogs the puppies will be raised by the parents and introduced to chickens, ducks, sheep, cows you name it. They will learn quickly by their parents that these are not toys to chase. These dogs are bred to be guard dogs so for yours to be actually chasing another animal clearly means this is not why you bought the dog in the first place. They make wonderful pets but their instinct is to protect. I really don't know how you can get a adult dog from stopping this behavior as a puppy they learn right away that this is something I need to guard and take care off.

You could try leash training where he drags a leash around and if he runs after the chickens/ducks he gets corrected with a NO Chase. But how he will understand to protect from this point I am not sure. This is for a dog trainer to deal with.

Well he's almost 4 and we've had chickens since March so yeah. Protecting isn't the problem. He protects anything on our property. It's getting him not to chase that's the problem.

 

[Katcynth]

I hope I can get mine trained to not chase my chicks. She's a german shepherd also and has been snipping at the chicks. I can't tell if she's trying to playfully do it or if it is really I want to just eat you.