One of the dogs I've had for many years killed two of my chickens today with NO warning.
She wasn't trained at all to protect them, and honestly I was worried when we first got chickens that she might be aggressive towards them because she will chase and kill any small animal she gets her jaws on. But from the first day she saw them she acted like they didn't even exist, never even a look from her towards them, so after ten months we were pretty certain she would be okay with them. Wrong!
She got two of them right in front of my husband, too fast to stop it.
I have no idea what got into her, but she will never be trusted around our chickens again.
She's a boxer/pit mix, btw.
She wasn't trained at all to protect them, and honestly I was worried when we first got chickens that she might be aggressive towards them because she will chase and kill any small animal she gets her jaws on. But from the first day she saw them she acted like they didn't even exist, never even a look from her towards them, so after ten months we were pretty certain she would be okay with them. Wrong!
She got two of them right in front of my husband, too fast to stop it.
I have no idea what got into her, but she will never be trusted around our chickens again.
She's a boxer/pit mix, btw.