How to Train a Dog Around Livestock When Chickens Are the Hard Part
The question came up at a feed store counter, the way most good questions do. A young fellow had forty acres with the coop set close to the house, twenty hens, and a shepherd mix about a year old who had started watching the birds a little too carefully. He wanted to know how to train a dog around livestock before something happened. The man behind him in line had been running cattle dogs since before the young fellow was born, and he answered with three questions of his own. What breed. How old. And had he caught one yet.