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Quote: I have actually been trying that with no success. It really sounds like a simple and great idea, yet my girl is uncooperative! Now I can't even find her at night! She changes her place I think every night. Next year she will have her own pen inclosure and will not come out. We will just...

Quote: I can't believe I'm even saying it, but I'd rather have coyotes. We use to have real issues with them but not so much any more. We killed several and my large dog kills any that come around. She is part chow and coy dog mix we recently found out, and simply hates anything unfamiliar...

Quote: I have now seen it with my own eyes! There were three owls and they all went after her at once! She was sleeping less then 20 feet from the house with a motion light and lots of cover and yet they attacked her and took a little one! I'm guessing we have at least 5 Great Horned and 4...

Quote: OMG! Please not that now to! The thought crossed my mind sense I have had a few outdoor cats go missing to. The coyotes are very rare on my side of the lake, but at this point who knows. Sorry for my ignorance, but LDG?

Quote: I agree, strange, but they never mess with my Muscovies either. The claws are definitely a deterrent for me! Have you ever been scratched by them, terrible! If my runners leave the enclosed coop they die. Owls really seem to have a taste for them. That and anything opportunistic and...

First and foremost, thank you for your advice. This peahen has always avoided the coop ever sense I brought her home despite many efforts to train her to go in. We have had a big increase in racoons in our area due to the coyotes. The electric fence is well constructed and has five strands yet...

Pekins are noisy even when little. My Muscovy's are always quiet, even when little. Best I can tell till they get a bit bigger.

I am so not ready to incubate! Have a large fear of the birds falling victim to my ignorance. Maybe after a year or two of reading everything I can get my hands on and constant doses of this wonderful site, then I might be worthy enough to take the chance. Until then, best of luck to all you...

Two nights now in the last week something has attacked my peahen! The first time it got one of her three babies! She looses a great deal of feathers but does not receive any further injuries. She refuses to go in the coop at night, so now I have to find her and put her in by hand every night. I...

Know no one has wrote on this topic in a long while but, I have lost adult cats and ducks to Great Horned Owls. Now they are even after my peacocks!! They hunt all the time! Day and night! Impossible situation without locking everything up around the clock! So sorry for your losses

Beautiful!!!! So glad he is doing better!!!

Quote: Awesome!! Will do so tonight! I'll write with any news, good or bad. And "Welasharon", I do prefer to shoot them, as does my husband, but sometimes we can't with our Autistic daughter. If she hears gunshots on a day (or night) she may not be doing well it can cause real problems. I...

Quote: Lights work very well in the coop for me. Just doesn't help the ones that won't perch in the coop. I train them early, but with some currant trauma having taken place in there, they are scared.

Quote: you can throw a conibear trap over their head it works just as good as drowning them I use the belisle brand there is a drowner that is sold if you google trap drowner several links will come up the animal will drown itself Thanks!! I will have to try it!! Desperate! Had three baby...

I know how you feel with the guilt but I envy you for your ability to do it. I can trap them but have yet to kill one. My wonderful husband takes care of them once they are in the cage. Usually drown them sense we live on a lake. I have had seven in the last two weeks! I even found a family...