Dog killing chickens

I don't even reprimand my dogs anymore when they kill my chickens. I think it's just a retriever instinct and leaving them unsupervised will cause them to go after the chickens more. Socializing your dog around chickens or other species of birds might help when you are beside him. (It worked with one of my dogs) but teaching your dog not to go after your chickens is okay, but don't let your brother teach it to be a bird dog then he will get confused.
 
You need a shock collar for the dogs. Once or twice when they take off chasing and it is done. I train mine with only the noise. If they disobey then they get a light shock. I do not place shock mechanism on the vocal cords like they tell you. We place ours right below the ear. We train sound first, shock next. The dogs are playing a game and just need correction.

Sorry, once a chicken killer always a chicken killer if not bred to do that as in pointers etc. Pointers... my son has one. They are very intellegent, learn quick and need differentiations between what bird is correct to collect and which is not. Hunters know what I am talking about. They should only be going after a bird if asked to do so.
 
The dog can still be used to hunt birds so long as birds are not chickens. The dog can distinguish birds based on smell, sounds and sight. This where the trashing concept comes in. Hunting dog needs to ignore all but quarry you are after. You want a hound that goes after raccoons, fox, rabbits, or rabbit; not all four or something else like deer house cats.
 
My dogs do not mess with my chickens, but they do chase squirrels, wild rabbits, etc that come into the yard. I think what cured one of my dogs from getting too close to the chickens was a mild encounter with my light Brahma rooster. He got a little too close the the Brahma, and the Brahma let him know it!
I don’t advocate this, but it sure worked with my pug. He’s not a hunting dog, of course, but he has learned to share his yard.
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Shock collars should only be used as a last-ditch effort to save the birds when absolutely nothing else (including keeping the dogs away) is working. Hurting an animal in any way is not appropriate if anything else will work, and shock collars are only acceptable (barely) because the dog doesn't understand that the shock comes from you.
 
When I first got my chickens I was worried that my dog would attack them, so I tried to slowly introduce them by bringing him near one hen, she was bolder then I thought and gave him a peck on the nose. He now avoids all chickens!
 
This. The dog instinctively desires to hunt. It should never be trusted with chickens unsupervised. And please don't even consider kicking the dog.
It is my experience that a dog bends to the will of its owner. I had a dog wipe out my first flock. That dog shares my yard just fine with my chicken now and I trust her to keep them safe. Some folks wont train their animals and others do, accepting bad behavior from a dog is kind of silly.
 

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