Stock Breaking

[rick12345 181]

I would be interested to hear people's different methods.....

[Saltmoon 2,208]

Lead walking near say sheep keeping to heal and saying no when they look at them do that until it sinks in a few walks then off lead to heal doing the same. Eventually working towards them having seen them and paying no interest towards them. If able to try and force the sheep to run and if/when dog pulls correct straight away as it's no good if the dog chases them while your calling it back and then when it dose come back you give it hell as in my view it won't want to come back in future. I've done it this way with both my spaniels and my old lurcher works for me. Time and lots of effort. But there are the extream cases which I've heard of the electric collar being bought into play but that would be my absolute last resort and personally I'd take that as I'd failed

[bird 9,898]

Get them out young, with steady adult dogs. Also search stock breaking in Thl search bar.atb Joe

spot on it really makes massive difference to the training , because your pup will see the other dogs , chilled with the sheep, and it will follow fact . what i do as well , is train them in with the sheep off the lead all the while , just few sits and short recalls , with the pup, it will be by the mature dogs , it piss easy really. i do the same with all my dogs, and it works as done for 30 odd years

[dazbrowne 13 338]

Pretty simple really can't do with lads who don't do it or say it just chases them it won't pull it so no harm done get the dog out when young so it's familiar with surroundings of live stock and other country things just one thing to add after dogs very first kill I always take it through sheep again just so it doesn't get thoughts in its head that it can kill anything once you done that enjoy your dog's atb

[Wales1234 5,513]

Never understand when dogs are not stock broken it's just laziness, I just take my pups for a walk everyday most my walks have sheep on them , if they show interest a quick no they usually ignore them as the adult dogs do mine are spot on a sometimes will run towards sheep while hunting even seen my bitch run behind them on a line and the sheep turned and she carried on hunting got to watch it as some pups might think their chasing , I also try get them in as many different situations not just group sheep find single sheep on there own in cover and all summer I send my time in ferns hunting up rabbits with sheep there I don't mind if a sheep breaks cover a quick look anything more I don't accept

[rabbit demon 302]

I just took my pup up to a field with a donkey and a goat in it. I kept the pup on the leash while I was feeding the donkey and goat through the fence and Just watched her reaction to them. Once she had a sniff of them the curiosity was gone and she wasnt bothered with livestock in the slightest. She works beside sheep and doesn’t look at them and gives cattle and horses a wide berth.

[bird 9,898]

I just took my pup up to a field with a donkey and a goat in it. I kept the pup on the leash while I was feeding the donkey and goat through the fence and Just watched her reaction to them. Once she had a sniff of them the curiosity was gone and she wasnt bothered with livestock in the slightest. She works beside sheep and doesn’t look at them and gives cattle and horses a wide berth.

i remember the 1st time my big dog , seen a alpaca , there were sheep in the field, and couple of white alpaca's that were not over big , he looked and took no notice , same as my old dog . i had to then walk a lane that as few cars go down it , so put both dogs on there leads. a tractor was coming down the lane, so got in close to the edge , when all of a sudden a big brown/black thing came trotting to the fence , i wasn't proper looking as was keeping a eye on the tractor coming towards me . The big dog Buck seen this big thing and nearly pulled me over the feckin gate to get at it , i t was a big male alpaca the dog must have thought it was feckin deer or something lol, i give him few yanks on the lead , he was ok after it bloody woke me up

[keepdiggin 9,561]

just a quick question if you used dogs on boar could u stock break them to domestic pigs?

[jiggy 3,209]

Take a dead sheep pick it up and beat the dog with it. This is harder to do with cattle as they are quiet heavy.

[jiggy 3,209]

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[straight2hand 303]

I walk the dog on the lead for a bit until it don't pay much attention, as a young pup it hopefully can't do too much damage when you let it off in the end then it will usually and quite obviously chase a sheep the first time or at some point, couple of slaps and it never looked at one again since...simple. Key is do it young really.

[mushroom 12,925]

I like to take my pups into the field on a lead. As soon as they look at stock, I kick the living shit out of them, while pressing the shock collar button (obviously it's wearing the collar). After 5mins I stop, let the pup catch it's breath then start walking... repeat as soon as the pup looks at stock

[rick12345 181]

Thanks for the replies, chaps. Nothing unusual then (other than trying to beat the dog with a dead sheep). My old dog is 9 now and never been a problem around sheep, alpacas or llamas, but still doesn't like cattle. He doesn't go out of his way to chase them, but curious/young cattle usually approach and he has a pop.

[Squeamish5 309]

When you say 'has a pop' do you think he wants to chase and kill them or is he being defensive?

[mushroom 12,925]

If you rape him, he will cum