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For a quick trip to bring eggs back an improptu incubator can be made out of a small drink cooler with some peat moss as a substrate to hold humidity. Did it many times with reptile eggs. I'm also another guy that does Schutzhund with GSD's and Mal's. Worked detection for many years as well.

Whats the end goal for your dog? Then it would be easier to advise on how to go about training. If your dog backs off under verbal command, you're off to a good start.

Quote: Sorry to hear about your chicken. At four months your pup should still have his puppy teeth. Those alone will tear up a chicken really well. Given his age I wouldn't trust him to police himself alone with the chickens. Even if he does well with the chickens now, once he matures it might...

Quote: The only sure fire way to ensure the dog doesn't go after the chickens is to not allow the dog around the chickens alone. If it was indeed the dog that did it, what tends to happen is the act of chasing and catching the chicken is self rewarding. The catching is the reward for the...