Training our dog to respect chicken boundaries
We've been having trouble
with Lucy breaking her way through the chicken wire to get to an egg or
food scraps thrown down for the flock.
I thought the Zareba
K9 electric fence controller fixed this problem for good last year
when I surrounded the first chicken pasture with electric wire and
watched her learn a shocking lesson on why it's important to stay away
from our poultry fence.
This year I only strung up
about 12 feet of wire within two small stakes for pasture #4 because I had a pretty
strong feeling she might try to re-enter through a recent hole she
chewed and we only half fixed. It only took a few minutes for her bad
side to take over and try another unauthorized entry.
Zap!
She didn't jump quite as high
as the first time, but it's obvious she got the message.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Maybe you would consider a nice big Rooster
I have a free roaming flock that weeds my berry patch. They where all hens, until they just started getting knocked off, between my dogs and nature... Earlier this year I chose a nice little Black Giant, Iv been hand raising him all year. Now, and better flock protector you wouldn't find! Hes big(13lbs big) hes mean(not to me;), my 3 mutts no longer dig under the berry patch fence...... And hes stopped the raccoon(what I believe it was) from killing them too!
OK, maybe its not the best idea though......I now have to lock him up just to let my dogs out of the truck.......... my girlfriend too..... and to mow the grass.. and hes very mean to my Little billy... he doesn't like feed bags either....
Yeah never mind, don't get a rooster to protect your flock.......