LGD - Tie the dead chicken around her neck?

haypoint · #41 04/20/09, 07:49 AM

Seems like either way would work.
You can tie a dead chicken to your LGD or tie a live chicken to a dead LGD.
I've never had a chicken eating dog or a dog eating chicken. But a preditor is a preditor, with or without a collar.

Hawkfamily · #42 04/20/09, 11:23 PM

Thought I'd provide an update, as promised - seeing as how someone revived this poor chicken necklace thread.
CC wore the chicken necklace for a good 9 days or so - she didn't notice it after about Day 2. We were more shocked that the darn thing actually stayed on there and wanted to see how long it would last. lol

If I had posted about the success of this treatment a few days following the necklace removal, I'd have been saying "You were right. It didn't work. Go ahead and tell me 'you told me so'." But, now, a few weeks later..... she's done with them. While wearing the necklace, she stopped bothering the ducks and hasn't looked at another one since. But, we caught her carrying the odd chicken around (didn't kill another one, though) a couple of times, and I had to redirect her a couple of times. I started carrying treats in my pocket and worked really hard on positive reinforcement and redirection techniques. And, her chicken chasing days have subsided completely right now.
I know. I know. It has nothing to do with the chicken necklace, right? You're probably right. In any case, she is cured.
Thanks for humouring me!

jodi

wyld thang · #43 04/21/09, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Hawkfamily

. But, we caught her carrying the odd chicken around (didn't kill another one, though) a couple of times, and I had to redirect her a couple of times. I started carrying treats in my pocket and worked really hard on positive reinforcement and redirection techniques. And, her chicken chasing days have subsided completely right now.
I know. I know. It has nothing to do with the chicken necklace, right? You're probably right. In any case, she is cured.
Thanks for humouring me!

jodi

sooooo, it was completely wearing the dead chicken and nothing to do with the "redirection techniques". okay! gotcha! (sorry, couldn't help it

) hope the cure sticks

Hawkfamily · #44 04/21/09, 12:46 AM

It was everything to do with the redirection techniques.
Just to clarify: I didn't work to train her while she was wearing the necklace. She really required no redirection while she was wearing the chicken, so it wasn't necessary anyway. But, also, I really wanted to see if the necklace itself would work.
When it didn't, (cuz her chicken chasing resumed after the necklace was gone) (but, she DID stop bugging the ducks), I began to redirect her and even bring her right into the chicken pen to completely subject her to the birds.
THAT was totally successful.

pheasantplucker · #45 04/21/09, 09:30 AM

My Brittany eats poop. Should I make her wear the doo doo bag around her collar?

#46 04/21/09, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by westbrook

tying a chicken around a dogs neck is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of doing to get a dog to stop killing chickens!

where is the logic?

sure go ahead.. tie one on... you will feel really dumb when the dog lays down and dines! like a candy necklace for kids!

this is a livestock guardian dog!!!! not a herding dog (border collie, collie, rotty, german shepherd), it is not a reteriver, not a pointer, or a whole host of other high pray drive dogs.

LGD's are low pray drive!!! what are you doing letting you puppy run with livestock with out supervision? pen the dog in a run next to the livestock, pen the dog in the center of the paddock or put said pup with some aggressive livestock but plenty of room for her to get away.

this may help http://www.anatoliandog.org/poultry.htm

you are asking a 6 month old puppy to behave line an adult.. like leaving an 8 year old child alone with a new born and expecting the child to know what to do in an emergency.

It takes awhile for a puppy to understand that they are to protect it not play with it!

your first dog/pup, you have to be the alpha dog. you need to stay on top of the pups behavior... expect to loose a few more before she figures out she is to protect it not eat it!

tying a dead anything around your dogs neck... don't, you are just asking the dog to kill again, after all it is a reward.. dinner on a string!

a little trick used and sometimes it works... spray livestock with bitter apple.

shock collars are great tools but the dog can't see you ... shock collars are even better when you put the collars on the kids, the remotes in a bag and have them reach in and grab one! well, never mind.

I agree..and I'd add that LGD's don't fully mature until they are over 2 YEARS old..they are big puppies..if you cannot spend time teaching her every day, perhaps there's a neighbor who has an LGD who CAN teach her..none of my dogs ever whacked poultry/livestock..of course it took more than several months of daily training for them to be 100% on track..ya know..LGD's tend to think for themselves and act ..for all that you know, that now-dead chicken was behaving aggressively towards another chicken and didn't stop when your LGD intervened..a threat is a threat until the dog learns otherwise