Training your dogs with chicks using an xpen. Good vs bad body language
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2023
- Day one of training the dogs around chicks using an xpen. It’s been too cold up until now to move to stage 2 of bringing the chicks out into the xpen every day around the dogs.
Stage one we hold the chicks up around our dogs everyday and asking them to be calm and “leave it”.
We didn’t do much training on day one of the xpen training because I wanted to show the dogs natural behaviors so you can see what you want to see and what you do not want to see.
Our border collies Pete and June start out with the what not to do. Pete is fully chicken trained and safe so I’m not too worried about correcting this behavior on his part. It served as a good example.
Our one year old livestock guardian dog Judge does a great job of demonstrating good body language and then Pete and June start to loosen up and you can see how you start rewarding good behaviors.
If you do this everyday it will go a long way in training your dogs to be calm and trained around new chicks and pullets by the time they go out into the coop at 6 weeks old!
Judge looks like a champ. What a terrific character all your Anatolian Sheppards have. Judge is suoer sweet, for a 160lb dog, bred to take down predators all day.
Yep. All I can think about is Judge playing with his little 🐥 the other day and when he tries to eats with all of his buddies he protects.
Would you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make much longer videos! I'm disabled and stuck at home much of the time and your videos brings back so many great memories of my childhood. I love your animals but your dogs give people like me hours of joy and entertainment. God bless you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Praying for you Donna. Be healed in Jesus name.
And I agree with you in prayer for @donnaarbaugh7596 and her complete healing in the Holy and Life-Giving Name of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Amen.
Please make longer videos of the dogs. And ranch manager Luna
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Judge is a good boy.
I know they didn’t do well, but Pete and June make me smile with their goofiness.
My lab was so good with the chicks when we got them. He was interested but not showing predator behavior at all, I'd take him into the room with me when I'd go sit with them and he'd watch them with me, after a week I'd take them out and use his and my bodies as blocks from wandering too far and he's just watch them, it was so cute. He even started displaying a bit of a guardian streak towards them while outside, I believe he was copying me lol. When they would make a stranger danger call he would jump to action like he saw me do so many times, it only took my praising him once for doing it for him to start doing it every time.
Love Judge ❤❤❤❤
I love watching interactions with you and your dogs, explaining their behaviours and skills. I really enjoy your channel. You really Care about each one & it shows!💕
Once again, a great opportunity for important education! ❤️👏👍🥰
Judge is a real gentle giant.
Just found your channel today with the short of the cat luring the baddies in for the dogs. She’s just brilliant, of course the rest of the crew is amazing also.
That's clever the way you do that. This training is simple yet really clever. So great the Boarder Collies learn and it is incredible to see Judge the LGD just knowing the correct behaviour not to mention helping his new feather friends makde them feel like they are friend not foe.
I can tell w/ Pete and June w/o the explanation but it’s so hard w/ Judge because he always wants to greet every animal on the ranch with a full body sniff. I’m glad she explained about all of them but especially that Judge was doing great
Pete! 🤦🏼♀️
Glad to see the BCs are doing better and learning though. Judge, as always the prince of perfection 🥰
Judge comes in like a champ 💯❤️❤️
Judge to the rescue!
Judge is a special boy!
Such inspiring videos! Just subscribed!
Thank you and God bless you!
Thank you, this is so helpful!
This is really helpful! I have a nearly 13 month old Border Collie/Australian Shepherd with a sprinkle of Great Pyrenees and Blue Heeler and he isn’t great with cats or chickens or cows. A dog trainer friend did say though that he’s displaying bad impulse control, not prey drive, which is comforting. He’s getting better with the cats step by step, he’s just a bit heavy handed and doesn’t understand that he is so much bigger than them. The cows are less worrisome because if they turn to face him, he backs right down. It’s the chickens I’m mainly concerned about, so seeing this does offer a lot of tips!
Judge is such a good boy
It seemed like as soon as Judge layed down, pete layed down too❤❤
Aww...look at them three babies 🥰
Our cattle herding horse , would keep momma hen & chicks all nice & rounded up. When momma hen got tired of this, she would hide under the bee box with her brood. NOBODY bothered her under there. The bees protected the hen and chicks .
Had a Border Collie that naturally liked the chicks and ducklings. She kinda did what yours are doing, but didn't push the wire towards them. She ended up spending all her time with the Chickens and Ducks, but really liked eggs. lol We just had to pickup the eggs when we let the birds out of the coop, and O'Reilly in with them.
Haven't had a bird-friendly dog since her. A friend had a Collie that loved to just sit and watch them, no aggression or anything, but the friend didn't want to take any chances.
You are amazing
Your animals are a reflection of that
100% agree. These animals are a reflection of the time, care, and live they get from their humans.
My dogs learn most by watching the others in the family. Love your lot.
Great tips! Thanks for sharing. I live herding dogs - I have 3, but I enjoy seeing your LGDs, and Judge is a favorite! 😍
Out Chow was obsessed with “taking care of” the chicks. They were in their heated box in the garage. She insisted on checking them out first thing in the morning and last thing at night. However, her gentleness became a little predatory when they got big enough to go in the chicken yard. Then after about three weeks she utterly ignored them.
Perfect, all of it, well done Raventree 😊
We start our chickens and dogs/cats as soon as possible. Our Kangal looks alot like Judge and has a similar temperament 🤙
You are so smart and great with all these animals .
I love these videos, please do more of these training stage videos
Good ti know. Have heard so many times Anatolian don't do poultry. Or waterfowl. Nice to see it can be done with proper training.
Anadolu köylerinde neredeyse herkesin tavuğu vardır
Great tips, thanks
I just found your channel and binge watched all videos. I LOVE watching working dogs of all kinds. Your dogs are beautiful and so fun to watch. Can you answer whether they’ve actually fought a coyote/other dog/etc that was able to make it into the farm? I’m curious if the LGD would destroy the intruder or simply maim them to get them to leave.
Thanks so much for the videos. I can’t wait to watch more
Hi, they have gotten smaller chicken predators that come in like possums, skunks. Coyotes are risk averse so they see our dogs and do not try to enter their territory within our fencing. they find easier food elsewhere. we also have a problem with loose dogs that do a ton of damage to livestock locallly and they are not risk averse but even they tend to run. haha. if a dog or coyote were to try to dig under our fencing or jump the fence they will use lehtal force to protect their stock but they havent had to that i'm aware of
@@raventreeranch very interesting. Thank you so much for responding. I’m learning so much and goodness, watching their natural born instinct is just simply amazing.
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Way to go Judge!! ❤ Pete and June will get it, they have Judge to teach them😊
Can you talk more about this in more detail? And how and when to use or not use a long lead as they grow around your chickens? We introduce every day and supervise
I have had Australian Cattle dogs for 14 years. I have 24 rare chicken breeds. Peachicks. Poults. Guinea keets. Ducklings. They have found baby birds fallen from the trees.
They detest strangers but any animal but a rattlesnake and coyotes or predatory dogs, they love.
Judgie is good boy. Pete and June are trying their best!! xxx
This is so interesting!
I love the dogs! Really like this breakdown of behavior! Question: how are the chicks so calm?
Thank you!! I love chickens but wouldn't ever have them bec/ of my dogs. Now, at least I have a fighting chance.
“My dogs loves to watch the chicks”
Meanwhile: 🐶 💭 🍗
Wow, such an effective way to train it looks easy, though I know it's a lot of patience and work. I'm really proud of Judge and glad the bc got better. Did you have to do this to train Luna.
No, Luna was abandoned on the Ranch as a kitten. SHE took over & trained everyone. That cat is revered by all. ❤
Pistol Pete says please please please throw this ball please!!!
My task trained service dog, a German Mastiff Shepherd mix, passed away almost at 20 years old in relatively good in good shape for the age. It's taken me years to be able to replace her.
So sorry.
@banditeastlick2471 So sorry for ur loss. Blessings to u.
Dogs make good fertilizer lol
Do u know about greek shepherd dogs? They are really good!
Heres a dumb idea, are coyotes teratorial like wolves? I mean, could you get your doggos to pee in something and spray it on things away from the property, dunno if coyotes would smell that and 360?
that dog is so damn big and tough looking it doesnt bark, that dog literally says the word BARK
You Got Plenty of Time to work with Your pups &Cicks.
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We never had chickens when I had my Australian Cattle Dog yes she wanted to heard everything. I couldn't let her out with my horse because he had been attacked by dogs and he would have killed her he was not good with dogs. So I worked with her a little bit with my daughter's turkeys she was Raising for FFA. Nikki did pretty good she was always trying to chase my daughter's sheep that we had. We had a ewe named Buffy. Every time I went out to feed them especially Buffy, Nikki would sit by the fence and look at me and then look at Buffy like.." okay when do I get to go to work?"
What breed is judge? Such a pretty breed.
ANATOLIAN SHEPHERDS.
About how much money would the big guys c ist from a reputable dealer.....as well as the smaller ones. Is I t possible to insure your dogs...and your herd to ..
About $1200+ for each breed I would say but depends where you live and the specific breeder. These dogs from a reputable breeder would probably cost $1800+ where I live. And yes you can insure dogs and livestock
Thank you
Dog are predators and protectors. So that behavior is VERY GOOD according to the nature of dog!
Idk how accurate is using words such as “bad behavior” to describe actual good behavior. It’s just up to you to train them WHEN you want them to redirect from predator to protector.
You leave the border collies out all the time and they don't bother the livestock?
NOPE
Everyone loose focus if there's a chicks
Dogs look at things they want to attack.