Скачать или смотреть Training your dogs with chicks using an xpen. Good vs bad body language

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!