I did this with my children and it worked amazing! Worked with food, tv remote, drinks, tools, everything! I might try it with my dogs and chickens next! Highly recommended!
I did everything in this video and my dogs (specifically one) I was very hesitant with, but this worked AWESOME! We practiced almost daily since Dec4th and now my birds are in the coops full time and I allow.my dogs in our run and they even keep watch over them now! Thank you
Yes! I have even referred your video to others in my online chicken group - I NEVER though one of my dogs would ever be capable, but here we are!!! This jas made my life so much better with your help!
Thank you so much for making this video. I acquired 16 chickens when my neighbor moved. I had just adopted a 4 year old pit bull that wanted nothing more than to "play" with the live squeaky toys. He'd lunge at the chicken tractor and sometimes bite the wire. I desperately wanted the birds to free range but that was impossible until I watched your video. It only took a couple times a day for 2 days for him to understand what I wanted of him. He still gets excited if a bird starts fussing and running but doesn't grab at them. Some days he just lays in the grass with them to share their scratch. Amazing transformation. God Bless.
Thank you for sharing this training. I shared your video with my daughter and son-in-law. They have chickens, rooster, ducks & rabbits. The volume is good on your video. I guess people forgot they have a volume button.
@@caragrandlegardens766 Haha yeah. I haven't made any videos myself yet. I save the recipes that I like. Yes the 3 dots on the side of the video description give you the choice to save and create playlists to save them in
Ty!!! Our doggies have seen our new baby chicks since five days old they are now six weeks old and they’ve seen him grow bud we haven’t initially let them meet. Thanks so much for the tips!!!
Thank you for the video! Likes and subscribed. Do you have recommendations on videos for how to "be dominant?" I've been trying this with my 8 month old Golden doodle but not she seems both super excited AND nervous around the chickens. :/
Cara i dont have dogs or chickens but was totally captivated by this video. Your dog completely wants to please you and thats apparent. Best wishes Patricia 💖
Thank you so much for your video! I never had issues with my dogs /chicken before, though I had them puppies….I am in Mexico now…and I adopted 2 dogs, . 1 is a mix between a dogo Argentinian and a pitbul, I had him when he was 3 months old, so pretty easy to have him submitted while staying gentle…in 1 week I had him coming back to me and sleeping with chickens and ducks around him…however, he is totally aware of how to guard me…and stop any ranchero he doesn’t know just at the gate ( he is now 5 months old and is …no issue…just a great puppy…though I also adopted a mix snauzer and??? From an association , she is a little bit less than 1 year old…she has the eyes of an angel but chases ducks and chickens…the ducks were so afraid they ran away…last night I heard noises…( I don’t know if it was a small panther or a coyote…) I spent my day searching my ducks…and finally got them back…the male is badly hurt. I now put them in a cage ( they used to sleep at my doorstep where they are safe…but with this “miss hunting” dog…how can I have her well submitted as she is adult, I don’t know her history ( hungry, street dog…?.?) I already had a French bulldog…the big dogs are usually keeping the farm/Rancho safe…as well as guarding the animals…chickens, ducks and goats… Any tips or suggestions?
I would expect it's the same. I have two pups and one has high prey drive and the other doesn't. I will be using this this afternoon with the younguns.
I’m going to try this with my collie pup. Well he’s a year and he’s giant. He’s taken to chasing and pinning my ducks and I’m at my wits end with it. I can call him off but he does it the minute I turn my back especially now the weather is cool. He seems to be more energetic than over the 100 deg summer. So the behavior popped back up. Collie are tough cuz they’re so sensitive you can’t be too harsh with them. Even yelling can hurt their feelings.
Thank you! I have a short haired German pointer/akita mix and I’m terrified she’s gonna kill my chickens. I want to be able to let her free and my chickens so I’m gonna try this
Sometimes it surprises me how well it works. My parents tried a lot of hard things to get the chickens to be left alone. It was hard and it never worked.
My dog knows he can’t do that but when I’m not around he chases them and I don’t know wat to do. I’m going to try this. He’s already attacked 1 and killed 1
Same for me. I had a lab that never touched my chicks and actually let them take his food and boss him around. Now I have a 6 month lab and 4 month GSD and my GSD has killed 4 hens and my rooster but only when I’m not around. They are free range but I’ve been mostly keeping them shut in. Since they were pups they have always gone to do chicken chores with me and never touched them but it was winter and they weren’t really out much. I think the first kill was a hawk and then my GSD came across the kill and learned from it. I will try this before the shock collar. I’ve tried everything including bringing them in the house. They are fine when I’m around.
I just got a 6 month old puppy. Most of the time he ignores my chickens but when they freak out because of his presence I think he want to play with them. Earlier today he ended up with a mouth full of feathers before I stopped him. I do something similar so hopefully after I incorporate your ideas I can get him to leave them alone and just gaurd the place like he's supposed to do. I'm just worried about something happening while I'm at work or something.
Have a bird slayer (Debbie) 😂in my yard, and I'm thinking of raising chickens... interested in seeing how it's gonna go down when I introduce the little bundles 🥺 using your techniques
We have a border Collie puppy who never tried to hurt, bite the chickens but would chase them. Of course a dog especially a Border Collie can literally run chickens into the ground and when chickens panic running at full speed they are liable to run into trees and things in the yard and can be killed. They enjoy foraging and resting and do not need to be running all day. Through a combo of training one which included kenneling him as a punishment we have reduced his activity by 85% but sometimes when we are in the fenced in yard with him he gets excited and hyper and will still chase a little. It's frustrating because he is so young and energetic he just likes to run. We used a technique similar to this and he should well know by now they are pets. We only have 6 chickens and all are grown.
I have 2 dogs and one of them is a chicken killer. My mother in law had around 20 chickens in a pin and we took the dogs there when we went on a weekend trip. While we were gone he jumped into the pin and killed all but one chicken 😕 will I be able to teach my dog to not kill chickens while he’s there and and we’re not? My other dog does not touch them and she has 2 dogs that don’t really bother them either.
We have a golden retriever dog that's not quite a year old, he is generally okay with the chickens when we're in the pen with him but will seek them out when they free range. Is the goal when doing this technique to have him not look at the chicken or chick? He needs to look away or at me?
I usually keep an I on them. For the first couple weeks to see if they are growing hyper fixated on the chickens again. You usually see the dog notice the chickens then make a distinct decision to leave them alone. My dogs will usually come back over towards me. It can take a little repetition and refreshers.
It has been my experience that dogs raised around chickens and not prone to attacking them can still be triggered accidentally. When the chickens start fighting or fussing and running the dog often has the instinct to reestablish order. When the dog attempts to dominate or threaten the chicken by instinct the chicken does not know how to read that and simply amplifies its squawking and flapping. The dog instinctually sees this as disobedience or a challenge and then amplifies the aggression. The chicken is incapable of submitting like a dog does by going still and maybe rolling on it's back. The chickens insincts vs. dog instincts will usually end up in injury or death. I just had a dog who ignores chicken 99% of the time murder one. The dogs was excited as the owner was driving away and the dog was excited and running around to see him off. When a chicken ran past, the excited dog gave chase and the chicken did not know how to submit in dog language. Dead chicken. Now I have to resort to unpleasant methods to save this dear dogs life. I will not have her death on my conscience because I didn't do all I could.
I just watched a video that someone had commented to tye the dead chicken to the dog & leave them, the guy had lost 5 chickens to this dog, he didn't think it would work but it did, so there's another option you could try. It made sense to me as a trainer had told me when my dog does something wrong or bad scold him & tye up or Kendall him & let him think about how he made you upset, that does seem to work too. &
@@pamschonfarber1041mine also killed 5 hens, most of the time he lives in peace with them even if im not home but once in a while he kills one and i dont know how to break this behaviour. very frustrating.
Thank you will use this with my heeler because she always listens really well but yesterday was the first day we worked with her around our chickens and she went after our rooster and would NOT listen to me when I called her name. She was bound and determined to kill him. Thankfully we got the rooster and our dog a part but it was terrifying to witness. I was so upset with her. Now she keeps eyeballing our chickens now more than ever like she wants to get in the pen with them so bad! Now I’m so afraid for my chickens cuz she is a digger and can dig deep deep holes in a matter of minutes. She can go under the gate in no time flat I’m sure. It’s pouring raining outside today though so no training today. But tomorrow I will be working with her on this. I just didn’t know how to go about doing it. She learns so quickly on everything else I taught her so I’m praying she picks up quickly on this too.
similar training worked great with my Labrador (retriever). a different set of rules is needed with mynJack Russel. Jack's need to be trained not to even look at a chicken. I't not hard but they have different DNA and 'mine' won't work. 'Don't look at chickens' works for killers, in my experience.
Ill have to try, i have a big dog im disabled so cant run after them but my dog, is shepard, retriever & st bernard, so i know he already will protect them from preditors, as he won't let the deer come in the yard,even when he's in the house he knows & wants out. Good protctor but he likes to run around the chickens are when they are pit & about, hes still a pup (1 ½) & wants to play
I also have an old dog that insists on living and sleeping with four or five chickens sleeping against or beside her. She lets them steel all her food even. And yet a few times a year she gets in a snit and kills a chicken. We haven't seen exactly what triggers her. Whether she thinks a rooster is hurting a hen or one of them tries to walk off with one of her toys, we are still unsure. As far as I can tell, no dog is 100% safe for chickens. We are just glad she didn't make a habit of it after the first one.
I tried this and my dog still eats and chases my chickens. I’ve tried just about everything in the book and still nothing has changed. I wire tied my hen to my dogs collar and she ate the damn thing whole. My dog is 7 months old and didn’t start killing or chasing until my other dog showed her. I rehomed my older dog that showed my pup because the same thing no matter what I did or said they didn’t care to listen. I’ve lost so much money because of my dogs.
I need to do this. But my chickens are not into me picking them up ever since we got a rooster. But I need to do something because my mastiff/cane corso pups killed two chickens on me that were born this year. I have 5 new chicks now and I wish they couldn’t find every escape route out of the pen I made for the chickens. It’s a pain to keep the chicks contained because every time I seal up a way out they find another.
We live on a farm with ducks, chickens, goats, pigs, and turkeys. When we got my puppy Bailey we were told by our friends (the breeders) we were told she was half husky and half Aussie shepherd. But when she was about 4 months old we realized she didnt have long hair and was getting beagle features. Turned out a blue tick hound jumped the fence durning hunting season and now we have a high prey drive dog running around with our very huntable animals and yeahhhh😅 its stressful
My dog knows she’s not allowed to kill our chickens but she still did now we only have like 6 because my dad got two but one ran away and the one we have now had kids!
My dog just go bonkers... Its like, everything else just disappears for him at that moment nd so he runs through them to get the chicken... He won't harm them though, just chase one down and stops them from moving...
I have 6 months old german shepherd. She has killed two of our beloved chickens. The kids and I are heartbroken and am upset because we do not know what to do. We will follow your tips and hope for the best.
@@tylerwrapson9003 She killed all of our chicken pets. We are not getting more. We have kept her but no more chickens. We followed the tips on the video but she is very stubborn.
@@gladismonarca2223 ahh I’m sorry to hear my dog isn’t fond either and will back off from the run if I have a go at him but I won’t trust him while they free roam
It sounds like you have some good ideas. But I just wished I could hear what you were saying. So you need to either crank up the microphone volume or get closer to the mic
My dog has been killing my sisters chickens when they get in the pin with him and then my sister gets mad at ME for it. So I'm hoping this works so she'll stop getting mad at me
for us this did not work,it seemed though it might have been working and then right after we did it, he went out and killed a chicken almost as though it was retaliation for us punishing him.
I hope this vid works for me because I have so much chickens and I have a puppy and her breed is a German shepherd so I’m kinda scare that when she grows up she’s going to kill all of them 1:30
I have 20 chickend and my neighbor 50+, my german shepherd(2) ate 2 mine and 2 neighbour's chickens in a spawn of several months, Don't tell me i need to do this for every single one... That's almost 100 chickens to teach him they're mine :D
Do your dogs live with the free range chickens and leave them alone? Or do they only get to be with the chickens while you are out there? And you are right....you CAN train a neighbor's dog on this. I did my neighbor's dog in under 5 min. right after she was chasing the chickens, having been allowed to do this at her own home. After that, she left my chickens alone, but still killed the chickens at her own home. Go figure.
My grandpa whenever a dog killed a chicken he would take the dead chicken and whoop that dog on the head with it it worked the dog quit killing chickens old school
You would be surprised how many crazy ideas people have tried. Some work, some don’t. I always wonder if the success has to do with the owners “dominant dog” stance rather than the actual tip. Thank you for stopping by.
