Re: chucks and pups

Michael Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Well Dachshund's were originaly bread to hunt rabbits in Syira (?) .   Not
a
> German dog....  Australian
> Shepard's were bread to heard and they can be a bit high strung.  Mine can
> play ball 24/7 and want more.

..and I've got four lunatic dogs (3 collies, 1 half collie/half black lab)
and they get on really well with our chickens! I don't worry at all now
about leaving all out together -  dogs ignore chickens, chickens move out of
the way of fast-moving dogs. I swear this is why we're about the only people
around here not to have suffered the trauma of losing chickens to mink. Mind
you, it did take a bit of dog training to get to this happy state - one of
the collies comes from a long line of working sheepdogs, and she wanted to
herd the chooks, who didn't want to be herded at all! We only started
keeping chickens last spring, and I suppose the dog acclimatisation took
around 4 months. I'm not saying that all dogs will end up being safe with
chickens, but I'm saying that some will, and it's not written in stone that
the two don't mix.

If my dogs ever let me down and decide to eat the chooks, I'll let you know!
(But I don't think it's going to happen)

Jo


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