Worries

[Daisy9696]

I am looking into raising geese, and wanted to know if my two labs and one dashound be a problem. The dashound is blind so I doubt she would get near the geese but she has a piercing bark. Will I need to be careful about the geese and dogs?

 

[Oregon Blues]

It depends upon your dogs and how good you are at dog training. Any dog can be trained to leave poultry alone if you make the effort.

Nearly 100% of adult dogs will chase poultry if they have never been exposed to them before and haven't been told it is not OK to chase.

 

[mominoz]

Concern is good. We we got our first geese years ago, we had labs, one still young. Both female. we kept them separate, but one day the younger lab tore the skin off the neck off our goose thru the field fence. We took him to a vet and he was sewn back up.However never happened again and they became fast friends later, as he was an only goose and liked to go sit by her, I think , because she was white, the other lab was black and he ignored her. They even ran away together one day, down the road and I had to herd them back as I drove up....LOL . The lab would run, and the goose would fly to keep up.. Just that one time, when she was young.
That said, I just had my 2 terriers grab a gooses head he'd stuck thru for grass in a 2x4 horse fence to get crab grass and got stuck, I saw it and got to him before the terriers killed him.He had a bite and scrape around his eye and neck.Seems to be healing fine,I am going back to hotwiring the inside of the dogs fence as I used to have it about 8" from the fence to keep them off.

 

[Daisy9696]

The dashound is normally inside most of the time. We have had chickens before and the labs were perfectly fine with them, so that kinda helps I think. During the day the labs are in a kennel so I shouldn't have to worry about them. Thanks!

 

[plantcityhomestead]

The dashound is normally inside most of the time. We have had chickens before and the labs were perfectly fine with them, so that kinda helps I think. During the day the labs are in a kennel so I shouldn't have to worry about them. Thanks!

My Australian Shepherd ignores the chickens, but used to go after the geese until they got older, and they went after him. He was totally unprepared and has given the geese a wide berth ever since. You may have to do some retraining with the labs. The geese are loud and will pursue a dog, unlike chickens. Judging by my dogs reaction to them, I don't think they put geese and chickens in the same category.

cindy