Depends on the dog.
Simba will hide somewhere and chew on the chicken. If he manages to escape my property, he will also kill chickens given the opportunity.
Rex kills it...... just because
Brings it to his house and stores it with the 12 toys, 9 avocados and the 5
intresting rocks. Whereas outside of our property Rex wont go after chickens- or anything else- unless i tell him to.
So 2 distinct behaviours. The first is hunting, the second is protecting his/our land. At least thats my take.
My own chickens know how to "play dead" and the dogs lose intrest.
If it flutters around making panicky noises, it stands no chance.
It’s rough when you have a chicken killer in the campo. We had a male rottie who totally ignored them. His female mate was a whole different story. She went after anything that made it into our property. Mostly chickens, but she just killed them and would let them rot if we didn’t pick them up. One morning at about 7 am we heard squealing right under our bedroom window, I looked at Mr AE and said “uh oh, she’s got a pig”. Neighbor started yelling Mr AEs name about 15 minutes later, saying that our dog came onto his property, killed the pig, then dragged it over to our house. When he heard that we’d witnessed it, his story changed to “well a dog that kills pigs should be killed”. We ended up giving him money, 1000-1200 pesos, don’t remember exactly, to keep peace and keep him from poisoning the dog. There was the understanding that from that day on any pig on our property was fair game. Never happened again.
A few months later, our darling male, who I adored, died a terrible death from poisoning. Our caretaker was with him as he died. We’re sure it was meant for the female.
And the female, a few months later, went after a cow who wandered in through a small broken area of the fence at the very back of our property (fault of our cousin, who has opened the fence for a reason I don’t remember, then never closed it). If you know anything about rotties, you know they were bred to herd cattle, and this girl tried to herd this ornery Dominican cow. She was viciously kicked by the cow several times. Vet came, but she died from internal injuries a few days later.
Got another female rottie. Carbon copy of the other female. Kill and leave chicken rotting in the sun.
Now we have three mutts, and life is quieter.
Back in NJ, we have the daughter of our rotties. She’s a carbon copy of her father, massive and mellow. 120 pounds. She’s 4 now. First two years we lived on a barrier island, only animals roaming around were seagulls, and from the reaction she had when they landed on our deck, we knew she had inherited her mother’s predatory gene. Two years ago, we moved to the mainland, large lot on a lake. Back yard is full of geese, ducks, squirrels, birds of varying sizes, osprey, woodpeckers and turtles. She goes nuts when she sees them. She’s never off leash here. When we’re in DR, she stays back on the barrier island, in a house with a fenced yard. She’s killed chipmunks, squirrels, etc, and she brings them back into the house as a gift for my friend, who is less than appreciative