Hi from SW Ohio

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Sorry to hear about the losses from your own dog. I wonder if socializing your dog to the chickens would help... on leash in a controlled environment of course. I trained my highly excitable dog the "leave it" command and gave her a very high value treat (hot dog pieces or grilled chicken) every time she looked away from my birds. Sometimes just taking away the mystery of something so exciting and creating a different situation will work wonders. Now Daisy can be in the yard together with the chickens. She leaves them alone because she discovered her own high value reward... chicken poop! :sick

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After 18 months we've never had an incident, because she's still supervised. But I've heard of many people training their chicken-killing dogs to actually become great flock protectors.

Here's a thread with some other ideas as well:
How did YOU train dogs to leave chickens alone
 

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