Our beagle (Bagel) is 2 yrs old. We go to our farm about once a month and chickens run free there. There is no way to pen them up or keep them out of her sight. Also, putting her on a leash is not ideal as she loves to run free, and other than her chicken killing habit is a good girl.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this habit may be broken?
You’ll need to restrain the dog for at least the short term. There’s no other way to interrupt the behavior.
You can work on teaching Leave It, but casing and hunting is what the dog was bred to do. It’s going to take awhile to train a reliable enough Leave It to protect small game around the dog.She might never be reliable around chickens because she’s succeeded many many times in getting them.