Tying a dead chicken around their neck

[Countrypunk92]

Well, My Ag Teacher did this, He beat the dog, then tied it to his neck..the dog never hurt the chickens agitan... I believe that some breeds of dog will harm chickens no matter what, due to their genetics...( Wolves, pits, rotweilers, etc) But that does not mean you cant punish them for what they have done...You spend hundreds of dollars and time into the birds to have the dog eat them...You punish them in HOPE they will leave them alone...Either way the word gets to them that they are in trouble if they do it..Its not like peeing in the floor or chewing a shoe, its killing another pet...So you dont pop him one on the nose and then go back to playing with him..it is a more immense *crime*. for a more immense Punishment.. Thats me anyway...

 

[tomjoad]

I have a pit that runs in my yard with about forty birds. She will run off wild turkeys and can distinguish them from our turkeys. Once she killed one hen that pecked her nose but she seems to understand what will happen if she kills unprovoked. She's seen me shoot plenty of varmints. You have to make your dog know who the boss is. Dogs understand hierarchy well- you just can't be wishy washy.

 

[Hoss1975]

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If you know how to properly train a dog there is no need to beat it!It just confuse's the dog and is just plain mean and inhumane.

 

[Pele]

I too have read several posts in the pred/pest forum that talk about this method. I think it could possibly work if done correctly with the right type of dog.

For one thing, no you wouldn't tie the chicken where the dog could eat it, because the dog WILL eat it. If you tied it around behind the neck, or so close to the neck the dog couldn't get it, then viola, no eating problem

I think another component to this working is time period. Just a day is not enough to gross out your dog. And yes they DO roll in carcasses, but I think it's a lot like the difference between wearing your favorite perfume dabbed on your neck, and emptying a bottle into you hair and not washing it off for a week. You WILL hate that perfume afterwards.

The last and probably biggest factor is your dog's breed and temperament. If you have a dog bred for hunting, you can't combat centuries of human genetic tinkering with just a week. Prey is all those dogs think about. If your dog is just playful and doesn't have a high prey drive, you betcha that they'll figure out chickens arn't fun, and say 'to heck with this'.

On the Poodle note, they are known for being hard to train (too high of intelligence and love to challenge authority). Plus as another poster pointed out, it's actually supposed to be a hunting dog. I wouldn't even bother with trying to train one away from your chickens. Just keep it away from them.

Also, I do not recommend beating your dog under any circumstances. I intensely dislike dogs myself (was mauled by one as a child), and have made a study of their behavior because I never want to be attacked again. Even so, I would never beat a dog other than to save my life during an attack. Beating dogs just gives them personality disorders, which leads to worse behavior patterns.

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

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If you know how to properly train a dog there is no need to beat it!It just confuse's the dog and is just plain mean and inhumane.

I have to agree with you never beat your dog even with the dead chicken, Poodles (as the OP has) were bred to be hunting dogs even though not used for hunting much anymore it's in their nature but they can be trained,

My dogs, (I have a Rottie and a Bull Mastif) have never killed a chicken they aren't bothered by them and the chickens trust them they will scratch and peck the ground all around them and they get along fine.

Last year I had let the chickens out for a while and I saw my Rottie come out of some tall grass and it surprised the chickens and my rooster attacked her she just trotted off with the roo still flogging her back side and the look on her face was like "What did I Do?" but she never offered to hurt them

The key is watching the dog while the chickens are out to teach them, after a while of reinforcement they will understand your expectations,

This may sound funny to some people but I swear by it, My dogs didn't like cats so I never had one but was given one and asked to put it down if I couldn't find a home for it, Well no one wanted it and I didn't want to kill it so I let it out of the carrier after having a "Talk" with the cat and both of my dogs I told the dogs that the cat was mine and theirs and they couldn't hurt it nor chase it and I told the cat she was welcome to stay and to be nice to the dogs, And that she could hunt all the mice, rats and rabbits she wanted as long as she left the songbirds alone (I feed them outside this window) She has never had a single problem from the dogs is a great mouser even drug a rabbit over half her size thru the dog door and woke me up cause she couldn't kill it herself LOL She lays on my desk and watches the birds come and go from the feeders and has never looked twice at them as prey that I know of, SO talk to your animals it works, the neighbors may think it strange but take a look at my avatar and see that a cat a rabbit and two 100+ pound dogs are proof it really does work.

An old GF of mine said once "When your dog makes a mistake take a newspaper and roll it up then smack yourself on the head while repeating, "I forgot to watch the puppy!, I forgot to watch the puppy!""

And when I was a kid we tried the chickens around their necks and it didn't work...

 

[Gmsg01]

An old GF of mine said once "When your dog makes a mistake take a newspaper and roll it up then smack yourself on the head while repeating, "I forgot to watch the puppy!, I forgot to watch the puppy!""

 

[storeman]

After reading all the post there appears to be a group of people this has worked for. There is also some it didn't work for, and then there are those who know everything about anything who have never actually tried it (kind of like our government ) I say try it and see if it works! What could happen other than your dog stops killing the chicken. Then again it may not. Either way you never know until you try. Good luck.

 

[Hoss1975]

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Thats the funniest thing i have heard all week

,thanks for the laugh!

 

[mhwc56]

i had a doberman given to me b/c she wouldn't stop picking fights with her MUCH larger sister.She was( mostly) an extremely intelligent dog and you could get her to learn almost anything at all HOWEVER she LOVED to kill chickens! the owner tried everything he could think of to stop her but NOTHNG worked and he had a natural talent for training dogs. His wife had show chickens and Teak would jump the fence( 6 foot) and get at those birds no matter what.
An "old timer" told him to tie the next chicken she killed around her neck until it pretty much rotted off...after that you couldn't drag her to a chicken ...she'd nip you first...
She did continue to go after other birds after that though. she would point and flush quail right into your hands and even CLIMB up trees after birds...she was a great dog but she was a little NUTS! LOL
i would say the chicken around the neck thing works as long as you don't give up and remove it too quickly.

 

[Mountain Man Jim]

Really, with all we have learned in the last couple of decades about dog training, we're talking about tying chickens onto dogs. Really.