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[renart]

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Do they package feed and water necessary for the trip or does someone along the line tend to them? I understand this is a rather dumb question, but, I've been following the thread and have been quite curious as to how this is accomplished without the traveler becoming quite famished.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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Rob did play a great game.

 

[renart]

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Our "Finnish Spitz" loves to catch them, mice, voles, shrews, you name it. Luckily she doesn't do a lot of digging. She runs the pastures, and when she scares one up, the chase is on.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I have no experience with English Shepherd. But with all of my Aussies I have just shown / told them what is to be left alone. IMHO there are a few very important things to do. First start working with them when young, I do not use treats for training, I reward with love and praise (lots of it). And here is my big one. If you talk to them and treat them like a person they will respond accordingly. If you treat them like dog then that is all you will ever have is a dumb dog!!
For your dog I would hold a chick up and let the dog check it out while talking telling to be nice, leave it alone etc. Then any time you catch the dog watching say leave it and make them move away from where the birds are.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Doctor appointment today, and then random doing of things, including finishing the gate to the Hamburg Pavilion and work on the Wyandotte Palace.

Tired, though, although I took grave measures (in that I had a friendly little glass of Bailey's Irish Cream at bedtime) to sleep last night, and actually, outrageously, slept for nine hours instead of five or six. I need to back off on the hard labor: my fingers and shoulders are barking at me in chorus. But, but, but: I need a rooster for the Roches, and another hen for Ian (I'm thinking of getting something that would give sexlink chicks, any advice?) and I need to build a banty fence around the front flower bed and get a trio of something outrageous (Bantams of Exotic Outrageousness, any advice?) and around then I need to modify the old greenhouse into a sheep pen, broody hen retreat, seed-starting facility and potting shed. It's a total failure as a winter-warm greenhouse because it's north of the house and sits down slope to such an extent that it gets no sun from 1 November to Valentine's day.

Excelsior, and all that jazz.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

marndan Don't take this wrong. But the one dog we have had that was "trained to work" was just a terror on wanting to work the animals wether we were out there or not. Now kep in mind this one was a Border Collie and I think had some issues. But I think the dogs that have been trained to work tend to be more focused on stock than the ones that have the instinct but have never been tought how to use it. Quincy is my 4th Aussie and I will never have anything else.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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You probably won't. Most herding dogs have to be carefully watched around them and some can never be trusted. They can't help it.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Do they package feed and water necessary for the trip or does someone along the line tend to them? I understand this is a rather dumb question, but, I've been following the thread and have been quite curious as to how this is accomplished without the traveler becoming quite famished.

Yes--usually some fruit, bread, etc but they are always starved & hungry when they get here.

Express is supposed to be overnight but the fine print says "to most locations." When I got my LS from Greenfire, they took THREE days. They went from FL to Spokane to Seattle to Wenatchee to Okanogan. They had a hard trip and it was quite the temperature shock (FL in the fall, vs Okanogan in the fall). Their combs were VERY pale when they arrived, they were VERY thristy and cold....but all made it.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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You probably won't. Most herding dogs have to be carefully watched around them and some can never be trusted. They can't help it.

Sorry heather but I really disagree !!! and can show why. And here is one perfect example.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Someone had some GORGEOUS Citron Spangled Hamburgs for sale in the auctions....had it been a pair (and not as spendy, I would have gone for it). I think it was 3 roosters, 2 hens and some unsexed chicks for $200). No one bid.