Has anyone succesfully rehabilitated a chicken eating Dog?

[Guinea Goonie]

Once a dog tastes the blood, it is almost impossible to stop this behaviour. You can tie chicken that it has killed until they rot off the color. You can use the shockcollor, but it is darn near impossible to catch them in the act and this becomes as useless as anything else. You can tie him up. Now that will work. Most people will not do this and there is alwayst the occansional opps, and a dead chicken is again found. You can keep your chickens in an encloser for the rest of their lifes or get rid of them. I have a Corgi dog that is older, she is out and about with the chickens ALL the time. She has NEVER even looked at them twice. Why ? We trailned her from an early age, it took months of hard work, but now we have a dog and chickens. Most people will not take the time to train early and the dog or the chicikens end up dead. It is too late to train your pit bull, it has already killed. You can try an electric fence and collar, but I have seen dogs run right throught these things, especially after a flapping clucking play toy.

 

[PurpleMoon]

Not true; it just depends on the breed of the dog.

 

[FlaChickenMan]

I had a similar situation where my chickens were out (5 RIR), didn't realize my dachsund was out, went inside and came back out and he was laying in the middle of 2 of my biggest hens, one on each side! I was livid! I raised them from chicks! He on the otherhand is bred to hunt, but not my chickens! I roughed him up a bit (well a lot) with the dead chickens, and I mean roughed him up! Well now he won't even go near the chicken pen or even look in their direction! He actually was out when 2 of my Domineques were out the other day and walked around them (I was hiding in the gazeebo just in case). I would not trust him alone though. I do not think they ever get it out of their minds, but a thrashing about with the dead ones seems to work??
P.S. I am not condoning beating but a stern moment with them may help

 

[BFeathered]

I'm following this thread with great interest, since my Rhodesian Ridgeback and Airedale have a taste for chicken. I'm currently birdless, but plotting the return of chickens.... Fort Knox, complete with electric wire is my current favorite. And dogs won't be in the yard unsupervised EVER again.

 

[scooter147]

Too late for this post but training as a pup that chickens are off limits has not failed me.
The first thing I do when I bring a new pup home is to turn a couple of broody hens loose on them. WORKS LIKE A CHARMe

 

[kstaven]

Even a dog that has killed a chicken can be retrained. It is a long hard road, but can be done.

 

[jacyjones]

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We borrowed a collar and did this with our old spaniel who had killed a neighbour's chicken that came in our garden. As soon as we got our chickens we used the collar and it took a couple of shocks. She then would not even look at a chicken and if they were in the garden she would deliberately look the other way. she is 13 now and has never reverted to her old ways. She has taught our young dog the right way to be with them too. All he wants is to eat their poo!!

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

My chocolate lab/mutt killed one of mine. I hung it from a tree branch right above his head when he was on a chain and every time he looked at it I gave the leave it command. As the chickens free ranged and they got near enough to eat the food out of his bowl I gave the same command. One week of intensive training...daily follow up for a few weeks.
My dog is not exceptionally smart or well trained, he is excellent with kids and has learned to be excellent with the chickens as well. If he barks at night I know it is because there was something in the yard that didn't belong there so I go give him a treat and a pat on the head. In my coon, fox, and stray dog and cat area I have had no losses from preditors and I think it is because of my dog. He was worth investing the time in training.

 

[horsechick]

My boss said he put a muzzle on his dog really good and put a bunch of chickens and the dog in a 10X10 cage and left them together.
He said it worked for him. The dog couldn't get any of the chickens, the chickens ran everywhere, the dog got used to them and got over its "need" to run them and chase them and kill them.
Since it was so close to them and couldn't.
Don't know if it will work for you or not. just thought I'd write,
Best of luck,
Angela

 

[Highlander]

We had this problem too. Unfortunately none of the methods we tried worked with one stubborn dog (labradoodle). My 3 dogs are now penned up during the day while my chickens freerange. When it is walkies time I have to drive the car right to the door of their shed and open the boot (trunk). Quickly open the shed door and herd them into the boot of the car, drive 20 yards to the field where I walk them and repeat the process on the way back. It is completely ridiculous but its what I need to do so that they don't get a free chicken dinner.