anyone got any tips to break a dog from eating eggs

[maransfan16]

thanks i try not to get mad and just brush stuff off but that was a little agravating

 

[suebee]

Yep. People are looking for meaningful advice but sometimes you get more of a generalization from some. "Control your dog" isn't really what your looking for...it's how.

 

[maransfan16]

yeah thats what i was thinking when i saw it the post i kinda felt like the little orange guy

 

[suebee]

Perfect!

 

[maransfan16]

 

[angusrooster]

many years ago my grandfather would do as someone else said and ive done it my self on my egg eating chickens i took a basting syringe for marinate put small hole in egg mix old english mustard red caynne pepper and tumirin have a go at it.it cure my 6 rir after 4 eggs.good luck.my sons dog killed one of my white maran hens sat. i fenced off a good sized lot around there coop and lot put elec fence around that .like others here i dont like to tie or chain .again wish you luck

 

[joan1708]

My dog is a notorious counter-surfer and she recently stole an egg out of the cartoon on the kitchen counter and snuck it outside and ate it (I found her licking the shell). Since then, every time I have an egg in my hand, she is right there mugging/sniffing my hand. If she had access to the chicken coop, I know I would have no eggs and likely no chickens either. She is a bird dog, and I use a tri-tronics electronic collar on her in the fields/parks to reinforce her recall. It works perfectly. But I had her professionally trained first. I think you have to be careful with these things, I've heard and believe you can ruin a dog with an electronic collar if you don't know what your doing. Don't be unintentionally cruel and turn your dog into a frightened nervous wreck. I would consult an e-collar trainer and have a solid plan before I would shock my dog for anything she has not already been trained for. For my-self, keeping the eggs in the refrigerator and dog out of the chicken yard will have to do.

 

[aart]

If you don't want to confine your birds or your dog then you need to train your dog so you can control him...
but it sounds like you adamantly don't want to do any of those things so.....
I was the orange guy wasn't going to try and explain it, was just my own personal little vent. My mistake.

I also have to wonder if your dogs are bothering anyone else's livestock. Sorry, I've got a pet peeve about people who own dogs that are out of 'control', ie untrained to behave in a way that doesn't damage anyone's property including their owners'.

 

[maransfan16]

If you don't want to confine your birds or your dog then you need to train your dog so you can control him...
but it sounds like you adamantly don't want to do any of those things so.....
I was the orange guy wasn't going to try and explain it, was just my own personal little vent. My mistake.

I also have to wonder if your dogs are bothering anyone else's livestock. Sorry, I've got a pet peeve about people who own dogs that are out of 'control', ie untrained to behave in a way that doesn't damage anyone's property including their owners'.

well as i have said he is still young we ARE training him but he is STUBBORN but he is NOT out of control and the only livestock problem he has is eating eggs he only bothers our livestock and he doesn't even chase or kill them if anything they chase him as he is afraid of his own shadow and if he did bother anyones livestock around here he'd be dead since it's all horses and cows so he isn't untrained as you say but he still has a few issues we are working out hence the WHOLE REASON of this thread in the first place and your right i don't want to confine either of them because they are all healthier and happier because of it. also i share you peeve of uncontrolable dogs as there are two in this area that if they had been in range would be on the back forty in a hole right now and if i didn't care enough to train him and make him a better farmdog again WHY WOULD I HAVE WASTED MY TIME ON THIS THREAD

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