Your own dogs: Good or Bad

[tiffanyg2]

I'd say my dogs are good dogs

...... except if your a squirrel!!

I think Maximus knew what was going to happen next!!

She just likes to sniff their butt~ what's wrong with that??

 

[justafewchickens]

My dog is kind of tricky. I dont trust her around my flock, she chases them, mostly for fun (her own of course ) but she never tries to catch them. She has even ran some over and didn't care. But last summer she earned her kibble. She heard my flock being attacked by a fox. I opened the door to check it out and she took off for it. This happened twice, the last time the fox was taking off with my slw rooster. Fox dropped him and ran. Rooster was okay. Funny enough tho the fox wouldn't stop for just me. I make sure my dog separate from chicks, but i still listen and look closely when she barks at the windows. She knows their warning clucks.

 

[chicknerd]

My cocker spaniel has raised each and every chick to a hen. They are HER babies. Even now she has to go into the run every day and check on them. They ignore her as she sniffs around to see if anyone has been in the run. I now have hatchlings and again they are HER babies.

My goofy great Pyr loves the chickens and is VERY protective. She has beaten us to the run to chase away a fox at dusk. But she is too rough on them. We cannot leave her alone, she doesn't mean to hurt them she just doesn't know her own size. She is very gentle and loves the chicks, when we let her see them with supervision. She will even lie down and sleep next to their brooder. She seems to know they are her charges. She just is too rough.

 

[AndersonFolk]

Would you trust this guy?

He got one of our babys, so now I've been working with him every day trying to break him of paying them attention while they free range. Hopefully in due time he'll protect instead of thinking dinner.
He loves anything that moves fast and wants to play is the problem....

BTW, he's a Catahoula.

 

[schellie69]

I have 5 that are great with the chicks and chickens they can be left out to watch over them. My DS's husky nope she has killed 1 pullet and 1 hen and 5 chicks. She has the they are chew toys. She is never left out with out someone watching her. We are working on training but I don't see that she will ever be trusted with the chickens 100%

 

[Okie Amazon]

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This is the problem with having dogs that are OK with the birds. Unfortunately, a glaring example of this yesterday. My young guineas got chased by a darn neighbors loose dog and 5 of the ten were missing last night. Two more made it home this morning, so I guess losing 3 is better than losing 5. They just sat there looking at him while I ran my butt off yelling and screaming at him. I "should" have turned some of mine loose to tear him to shreds and chances are that is what I will do if the intrusions don't stop. We have 2 and 1/2 acres and none of my dogs are loose all the time. They are either kenneled, in the house, or in the fenced front yard. We have LOTS of German Shepherds and they are all O.K. with the birds. Ozeta killed a guinea when we first got them, but the stupid thing flew right into her kennel and literally up her nose. She got a good scolding and spanking, and she is fine with them now. How you could make the guineas and chickens afraid of "some" dogs when they aren't threatened by others is a problem I haven't come up with a solution for.

 

[naakte]

this picture says a lot. this is henry (when he was a lil chickie) keeping warm against Helen the chinese crested. I have another crested named Eliza who guards the coop on my back deck. My crested named Girlie licks them and mothers them. I put a stop to her cleaning their butts though. here is Helen and Henry

 

[Kaitie09]

Our black lab(8) listens well. She is never allowed in the coop or the run, and when she does go near the run, she just smells around. Our Chocolate(4) will chase anything that runs from her. She is never allowed near the run or coop. A few years back, a hen got out of the run and both the dogs tag-teamed her. the prey drive was too high and they went with a pack instinct to kill. Luckily they stay away from the goats after the pygmy rammed both of them.

 

[PaleMelanesian]

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Be careful. I lost one of mine to a friend's tiny dachshund. She took down a hen twice her size in about 10 seconds.

My own year-old shepherd-lab mix thinks everything is a toy. That includes balls, leashes, squirrels, sticks, dirt in the ground (craters now) and sadly the chickens. I'm working on her but she is a bouncy bundle of energy.

 

[aggie9296]

My Chihuahua has recently started chasing the chickens. They are bigger than she is. And she is old, fat, and slow. So I see it as some good exercise for her and no worries to the chickens. One chicken will stand up to her and peck her on the head. So she will leave them alone for a little while until her pea sized brain forgets and then she chases them. Then gets pecked. Repeat cycle.

The terrier mix is not interested in the chickens as prey. She is also smaller than the chickens. Nor does she protect anything from anything. If it does not rub her belly or give her treats, she could not care less one way or the other.