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That is not my approach as have been doing so for a long time.

Dogs can discern birds by species as well as we can. The burden on you as the trainer is getting the dog to use that information to decide what the appropriate action is. They can even discern individuals.

I have had free-range dogs around free-range chickens for a long time. Most of the dogs functioned as guardians even though that was not intended purpose (most were hounds with a few farm / companion dogs). During pup phase (until about 2 years of age) they would almost at least periodically...