how do i teach my puppy not to eat the chickens?

[mom wewantchicks!]

UPDATE
thanks everyone for the great advice!! we have been really working on it,along with all the other puppy things you have to work thru!!i think in the long run it is going to be easier to train a puppy to do what you want then maybe a fully grown dog.(we had thought about adopting a full grown dog,but decided on a puppy!)i can already tell she is picking things up,like the not chasing chickens and not jumping! so im hoping this is a sign she will be easily trained!!!

 

[Beekissed]

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Not all retrievers retrieve!

I have two that would rather have there tails removed than fetch something. They will point, however. They are wonderful around my birds, but will catch and eat a songbird. There are no dyed in the wool standards of animal behavior here.

Just because they are a certain breed it does not always follow that they will adhere to breed instincts. If you truly believe this, tell a pit bull owner that all pit bulls have the deeply ingrained instinct to fight and kill! That should open up a can of worms!

Its also a dog's instinct to jump up on someone, to not come when they are called, etc. We manage to train that out of them and are pretty successful. Some dogs are smart enough to train, others are not. Basic facts. If they don't respond to training, it may not be due to instinctive drives, it just may be due to a stubborn, not very bright animal. At which time, electric line at the bottom of the coop, and half way up, will be an effective deterent.

 

[UnttouchableRose]

Out of our 8 dogs 3 love chickens, 2 will kill them if given the chance and 1 just plays hard with them, I'm afraid she'll be the same as the others if I don't watch closely. (2 are labs and 1 is a sheperd) However, what got them started all three of them is I have a VERY NASTY Golden Campine Rooster who scared them as pups (except for the sheperd) he would wait till I wasn't looking and spur them good. So now that they are grown up they retaliate on him and the others. I have two roosters the Campine and a Cukoo Maran that are very aggressive and they start on the labs and it's like a war. It's actually kinda funny but I know one of these days it won't be.

My JRT hated chickens and would eat them any chance given. One day he got out of the house and I couldn't tell you how many chicken feathers he had in his mouth before I caught him. It was like a circus trying to keep him away from the chickens. But anyway when I caught him, I took him straight to the house and put him in his kennel, he has never chased a chicken since, he is actually buddies with them all and they follow him like he's their leader.

 

[Poler]

I have a three year old lab and a 8 month old Sheppard. Neither one of them were raised around chickens, three months ago I started getting my chickens and they killed two. I asked a friend at work and his suggestion was to take one of the carcasses and stuff it with jalapeno peppers, then give it to the dogs. They haven't gotten to another bird since, but I plan on doing this if they do. It would show the dogs that the chickens are no good to eat, and if they arent good to eat, they wouldnt attack/kill them.

 

[BEGINNINGCHICKIE]

Don't know how to "prevent" an unfortunate incident, but, my parents have a friend whose dog got ahold of one of the chickens and killed it. They tied the dead chicken to the dogs collar and left it on the animal for a week. He was pretty smelly and they left him to sleep in the barn instead of in the house like her normally did. Dog never bothered another chicken.