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Chicken Predators & Pests - How To Protect & Treat Your Flock

supportNifty-ChickenBYC Project Manager
By: support, Nifty-Chicken, and BYC Project Manager
Posted 01/11/12 • Last updated 09/17/12 • 61084 views • 5 comments

These pages provide information about some of the predators & pests that might impact your backyard chickens.

 

Also, check out the chicken predators and pests section of our community forum.

 

 

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Raccoon

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Dog
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Red-Tailed Hawk

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Red Fox
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Coyote

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Weasel
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Mites

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Lice
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Possum

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Mink
 

Cat

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Snake
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Rat

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Mouse
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Bobcat

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Bear
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Owl

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Skunk
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Mountain Lions

 

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Fisher Cat
 

 

Crow

 

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Squirrel
               

 

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Comments (5)

desedar 4/18/12 at 11:02pm
has anyone heard of using white dirt to treat for lice
bquillen 5/27/12 at 9:16pm
A groundhog killed three of my chickens today. I had no idea they would do that.
awesomechicken 7/17/12 at 11:23am
i know why they would maby you put the coop on there home and they got mad?
chicki-vicki 2/12/13 at 1:01pm
I had not thought about snakes -- I'll have to give extra attention to even the samllest opening
Thought I was doing good by burying my run post and wire in concrete several feet down, having 7 feeet walls, and a run coverer 1/2 solid and 1/2 netting.. And a mouse, well if it can get it,s head through it,s in - so I guess on the outside and well as the insie of the acctual coop will have to be boarded up and sit on the same buried 2 ft of in ground cement. I dont know what else I could do?
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