Posted: 6/14/2013 5:35:16 PM EDT
| Came home to two dead chickens. Pissed me off since they were about to start laying. One dead RI Red and 1 cuckoo maran. The cuckoo was about 80% eaten and the red just killed. Looks like a bite to the throat. What do you think? I think there's gonna be some missing cats. |
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Guarantee you it was a Dog.
A Domestic Dog will kill chickens for fun. The other animals will eat their kill and all you would be left is feathers and drag the rest away. Since the chicken just shows bite marks to the neck (signature dog kill), it has to be a domestic dog. ETA: You can't untrain a dog not to kill chickens. If it's your dog, you either have to get rid of your chickens or your dog. Cats don't go after chickens. Never in all my years have I ever heard of a cat killing a chicken. Not that I like cats (I don't), but they are not your quarry here. Most in the 1800's used to keep cats near the coup to keep out mice from eating the chicken food. My Grandmother used to call them Coop Cats. |
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Quoted: Guarantee you it was a Dog. ETA: You can't untrain a dog not to kill chickens. If it's your dog, you either have to get rid of your chickens or your dog. That's simply not true based off my 1st hand experiences. I had a Rottweiler that killed 4 chickens that my neighbor owned. A bit of training and that dog would run from them when he saw them. This dog loved to kill. Killed squirrels and rabbits like it was its job, yet, I did train it to leave the chickens alone. |
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Guarantee you it was a Dog. ETA: You can't untrain a dog not to kill chickens. If it's your dog, you either have to get rid of your chickens or your dog. That's simply not true based off my 1st hand experiences. I had a Rottweiler that killed 4 chickens that my neighbor owned. A bit of training and that dog would run from them when he saw them.
This dog loved to kill. Killed squirrels and rabbits like it was its job, yet, I did train it to leave the chickens alone.
Not saying I disbelieve you, but you are the only person I have ever heard of doing it. |
| I agree. I lived on a horse ranch for a couple of years. The old guy who ran the place had a Great Piranesi (spelling). The dog was great but was a chicken slayer. He finally grabbed up a dead chicken and beat the dog with it. Very unsubtle but that dog never even looked at a chicken again. |
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Guarantee you it was a Dog. ETA: You can't untrain a dog not to kill chickens. If it's your dog, you either have to get rid of your chickens or your dog. That's simply not true based off my 1st hand experiences. I had a Rottweiler that killed 4 chickens that my neighbor owned. A bit of training and that dog would run from them when he saw them.
This dog loved to kill. Killed squirrels and rabbits like it was its job, yet, I did train it to leave the chickens alone.
Not saying I disbelieve you, but you are the only person I have ever heard of doing it. I was trying to find a picture the dog trainer we go to had of his pit with a chicken standing on the dog after the pit decided it was going to kill some chickens. You can train them not to, just like anything. |
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I agree. I lived on a horse ranch for a couple of years. The old guy who ran the place had a Great Piranesi (spelling). The dog was great but was a chicken slayer. He finally grabbed up a dead chicken and beat the dog with it. Very unsubtle but that dog never even looked at a chicken again. My FIL tried that and also tying the dead chicken around the dogs neck for a day. Nothing worked. Black Lab. |
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Came home to two dead chickens. Pissed me off since they were about to start laying. One dead RI Red and 1 cuckoo maran. The cuckoo was about 80% eaten and the red just killed. Looks like a bite to the throat. What do you think? I think there's gonna be some missing cats. Man, now I know where those feathers in my poop came from. |
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I agree. I lived on a horse ranch for a couple of years. The old guy who ran the place had a Great Piranesi (spelling). The dog was great but was a chicken slayer. He finally grabbed up a dead chicken and beat the dog with it. Very unsubtle but that dog never even looked at a chicken again. My FIL tried that and also tying the dead chicken around the dogs neck for a day. Nothing worked. Black Lab. LOL, I was just going to mention that! My brother's dog went through half his flock until a old farmer said tie a chicken to her collar. We let it hang on there for "three" days, she never looked at a chicken again. |
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Quoted: Not saying I disbelieve you, but you are the only person I have ever heard of doing it. LOL. You must not know many people who know how to train a dog. After training schutzhund iii dogs, mondio ring dogs and fh titles, teaching a dog to leave chickens alone is easy. Lol. |
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Dogs too. I had a Min Schnauzer cut my flock in half last year. Domestic dogs that run in packs are a real problem. Take a look around for tracks or other evidence of what varmint did the deed. Feral dogs are the likely culprit, they kill for fun, wild animals do it for food. |
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Guarantee you it was a Dog. A Domestic Dog will kill chickens for fun. The other animals will eat their kill and all you would be left is feathers and drag the rest away. Since the chicken just shows bite marks to the neck (signature dog kill), it has to be a domestic dog. ETA: You can't untrain a dog not to kill chickens. If it's your dog, you either have to get rid of your chickens or your dog. Cats don't go after chickens. Never in all my years have I ever heard of a cat killing a chicken. Not that I like cats (I don't), but they are not your quarry here. Most in the 1800's used to keep cats near the coup to keep out mice from eating the chicken food. My Grandmother used to call them Coop Cats. Cats do kill chickens, I have shot neighbors cats stalking my chickens. One method to untrain a dog from killing chickens is to tie a dead chicken around the dogs neck so it cannot get at the chicken. Let it rot. It will break the dog but not recommended for a bird dog as they will not go after birds after the treatment. We broke a sheep chaser with an electric collar. Not fun to watch, but after we lit the dog up the third time , he decided it was too painful to chase sheep. Some dogs will not break, but most will. |
| I am with Baldmonk on this one going with a domestic dog. I have a buddy that grew up on a farm and one of their dogs got to the chickens one day, Dad took one of the dead chickens and tied it around the dogs collar for a couple of weeks, he said the dog never went near the chickens again. |
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Guarantee you it was a Dog. ETA: You can't untrain a dog not to kill chickens. If it's your dog, you either have to get rid of your chickens or your dog. That's simply not true based off my 1st hand experiences. I had a Rottweiler that killed 4 chickens that my neighbor owned. A bit of training and that dog would run from them when he saw them.
This dog loved to kill. Killed squirrels and rabbits like it was its job, yet, I did train it to leave the chickens alone.
Not saying I disbelieve you, but you are the only person I have ever heard of doing it. Our pointer killed 2 chickens. We trained her off the chickens, by verbally correcting her if she approached the chickens. We both stayed pretty vigilant the first couple weeks after the slaying. We're still correcting her whenever she's within 3-4 feet of a chicken. She'll still kill squirrels and groundhogs, but submits and runs around/away from the chickens. I wouldn't leave her and the chickens alone for long periods (yet) but it looks promising. We can work in the yard/garden and just keep tabs on the dog and chickens every couple minutes. The other dogs are fine with the birds. |