Man's best friend, Chickens worst nightmare!

[fancy]

lorije 1 love your lab...looks like my old barney dog. none of my labs ever got to meet chickens, I have a pitbull and a victorian bulldog.

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

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If a hunt / retrieving Lab chewed any part of a fowl it would be shot, sent to the pound or sold as a pet. Labs and Golden's are specifically bred for the soft mouths - proper delivery of a fowl by a master retrieve dog will leave feathers pretty much unruffled. Chewing on the head and necks bred into them? Not even close. My 14yr old Lab is great with any animal (pics from 2 years ago), my younger Lab is great unless he decides to play with the flappy squawky toys.

Buford with a young purple martin I raised

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I have no idea bout your lab but the drop off lab on my farm got 26 chicks in one day she bit the heads off in the coop then brought the birds outside the coop and set them down outside it almost in a pile. I have read several post here on this very forum of labs biting necks soft mouth or not my info came from first hand experience and BYC I simply meant that it is not instinctive for a lab to chew the breast or chew the feet off Or shred the back there target soft mouth or not is the neck head area and that trait (with a soft mouth) was bred genetically. But all dogs arent perfect and some obviously over do it.

 

[3chimama]

I am so very sorry for your loss. I had a dog once that killed a baby kitten...knowing that "one of my own" did it made it feel worse. Take care.

 

[badwolf7914]

we figured out our dog is going after them when the go up to my 2 yr old and scare her like he's protecting her...