Some people shouldn’t be farmers
A woman down the street bought a good chunk of our chickens and we gave her our geese since she has a pond.
Unfortunately her dog killed every one of them overnight.
I’m not sure how it happened, I don’t know if he got into the cage or what, but she definitely should have been better prepared. It’s difficult to introduce fowl once a dog has already been established on the property. You either need to bring the dog up with the fowl or you need to work hard to retrain the dog that fowl aren’t toys or food. The latter is even more difficult since certain dogs are very predatory (huskies for one, I’d never own a husky and chickens at the same time).
My pittbull has never killed a bird. He has killed squirrels and chipmunks, which we let him do because we become overrun with them otherwise. And because we allow him to kill chipmunks and squirrels, he does kill any rabbits that get out as well, because they are furry and small, just like the squirrels. But rabbits hardly ever get out, and those that do usually stay out of our fenced in area where the dog’s territory is anyway.
In fact we’d let the chickens out to stretch their legs and eat bugs in the backyard quite frequently, with my dog at the same time, and he’d never even bother to look at them. He just doesn’t care, he expects them to be there.
Ah well, guess she learned her lesson. I hope.
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