I NEED SOME ADVICE PLEASE

With her breeding, she is a high energy dog that needs LOTS of work every day.  I would suggest finding a good obedience class.  Once you find out what motivates her (food, praise, toy), then you can also use it for training.

I agree with Marklorna.  Obedience training with help her alot!  I did this with my Great Dane puppy for the fact that I didn't want to be the one being taken for a walk.  The first two weeks were easy for us because we already knew sit and lay down.  But she picked up very quickly when it came to sit/stay..down/stay... heal..and leave it.  Every time she would do something correctly she got a tiny treat.  It's a committment but if you want your dog to mind you it is well worth it.  This would help your dog to leave the chickens alone and after training, all you would have to say is "leave it" and she shoudl mind you. 

If you want to try this before you get training what you will need to do is invest in ALOT of treats that can be easily cut into small taste only size peices.  About the size of your fingernail.  Leash her and take her by the chickens..walking past them as if you are going for a walk.  Any time she turns towards them, say Leave It and keep going.  If she still tries DO NOT treat her and repeat the process.  You want her to look at you when you say leave it, and when she does, treat her.  Praise her and tell her what a good girl she is.  If you do this every day for 15-30 minutes a day, in about a week she SHOULD learn that the chickens are a no no.  Most important, any time you tell her to leave it and she looks at you or even in the opposite direction of the chickens, treat her.  This way she will know that if she does what she is told, she gets a good tasting treat immediately afterwards, and you'll be amazed at how quickly she will pick things up. 

Quoting marklorna:

With her breeding, she is a high energy dog that needs LOTS of work every day.  I would suggest finding a good obedience class.  Once you find out what motivates her (food, praise, toy), then you can also use it for training.

 

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For me,I watched some of the episodes of " The Dog Whisperer" and his stuff really works. I have a lab mix and he is high energy too. My cockerspaniel is highly active too. You could try watching some of those for ideas.

Good luck

thanks for the advice i am a member of ceaser millans website maybe i can get more help from there. ill try the leash training and see what she learns from that. i do walk her every day and i also let her outside in a dog run we have here. my brother ilaw has her sister he has simular  problems with her. he dosent have chickens so that part isnt a problem for him. he has horses and goats but his dog has no intrest in them. my husband brought lacy home because my kelpie is getting old and he figured she would learn from her how to heard the goats, we never taught baby how to do it she is self taught, so far lacy hasnt learned how yet i always have to keep her on the leash. which for me is sad  

Heelers are extremely active dogs.  They need tons of time to run and get out all of their energy.  I know of places that won't even adopt them out unless you can show you have a really big yard or fenced acerage.  So making sure she is getting enough exercise and has room to get out all of her energy is important.  She may tend to misbehave less if she is more tired.

Also, heelers are extremely hard headed.  We had a neighbor who put it pretty well.  We were talking abou the differences in our two dogs, one was a heeler mix and one a border collie mix.  He said that he had both breeds before and with heelers he basically had to beat them to get anything into them and with border collies you had to be gentle and move slowly and they would respond.  Now, please don't think I am trying to suggest you beat the dog, I am just saying they need a lot of work and motivation. 

I think the dog training classes would be good if you have never had a heeler.  They are wonderful dogs.  Incrediblly smart, loyal and once trained the best dogs we have ever had.  Getting them to that point nearly drove us mad though!  Good luck.

By the way, she is beautiful!

Quoting countrygirlkat:

Heelers are extremely active dogs.  They need tons of time to run and get out all of their energy.  I know of places that won't even adopt them out unless you can show you have a really big yard or fenced acerage.  So making sure she is getting enough exercise and has room to get out all of her energy is important.  She may tend to misbehave less if she is more tired.

Also, heelers are extremely hard headed.  We had a neighbor who put it pretty well.  We were talking abou the differences in our two dogs, one was a heeler mix and one a border collie mix.  He said that he had both breeds before and with heelers he basically had to beat them to get anything into them and with border collies you had to be gentle and move slowly and they would respond.  Now, please don't think I am trying to suggest you beat the dog, I am just saying they need a lot of work and motivation. 

I think the dog training classes would be good if you have never had a heeler.  They are wonderful dogs.  Incrediblly smart, loyal and once trained the best dogs we have ever had.  Getting them to that point nearly drove us mad though!  Good luck.

By the way, she is beautiful!

im no stranger to heelers but lacy takes the cake ive been leash training her and she dose wounderful its when the leash is off the chase is on she refuses to listen to any commands recently she tryed to tear up one of my house plants so she got the old spanking with the news paper lol she wont even look at the plant now I dont want to do that to her but hey i am useing what ever works to make her mind

Quoting Budlady:

 

Quoting countrygirlkat:

Heelers are extremely active dogs.  They need tons of time to run and get out all of their energy.  I know of places that won't even adopt them out unless you can show you have a really big yard or fenced acerage.  So making sure she is getting enough exercise and has room to get out all of her energy is important.  She may tend to misbehave less if she is more tired.

Also, heelers are extremely hard headed.  We had a neighbor who put it pretty well.  We were talking abou the differences in our two dogs, one was a heeler mix and one a border collie mix.  He said that he had both breeds before and with heelers he basically had to beat them to get anything into them and with border collies you had to be gentle and move slowly and they would respond.  Now, please don't think I am trying to suggest you beat the dog, I am just saying they need a lot of work and motivation. 

I think the dog training classes would be good if you have never had a heeler.  They are wonderful dogs.  Incrediblly smart, loyal and once trained the best dogs we have ever had.  Getting them to that point nearly drove us mad though!  Good luck.

By the way, she is beautiful!

im no stranger to heelers but lacy takes the cake ive been leash training her and she dose wounderful its when the leash is off the chase is on she refuses to listen to any commands recently she tryed to tear up one of my house plants so she got the old spanking with the news paper lol she wont even look at the plant now I dont want to do that to her but hey i am useing what ever works to make her mind

Oh, I get what you are saying now!  Yeah, we had one heeler that was like that.  My husband had to resort to spanking her too!  When I spanked her she looked at me like so, what do I care......  Good luck!