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I completely missed this, thank you for the suggestions. I've been keeping my chicks in a run but the ducks have been roaming. Today, I got my first duck egg and quickly after lost my first duck. Bobcat came and took our only male right out of his pool.

Thank you!

Hello. We recently lost two of our flock to a bobcat. I'm planning on creating a fenced in area of our backyard with an electric fence so that my girls can still roam. We're going to do what we did with our goats, but eight feet of fence instead of four, and it will be electrified. We are...

That's exactly what I'm thinking re: electric. I'll probably do eight feet tall in the "orchard" directly behind the house. I used to volunteer at a wolf sanctuary down here. We were on the other end re: dispatch and relocating. Now that I've been on a farm, I've 'switched sides' to some...

I think what I'm looking at is an electric fence with t-posts, the coop on the inside, and then I just need a way of closing the space in from the top (if this helps).

I posted a few days ago about two of our girls going missing without a trace (aside from some feathers). We ended up finding my bluebell's feathers in a different spot where we have a camera. A bobcat got both of them. If you look at the back of the picture below, I already have a run setup...

My neighbors actually all have a leg up because they have guard dogs. And some of them do bark all night and some don't. We live in the country. Everyone here has dogs, livestock, and a garden.

It was a bobcat.

Technically we have foxes in Florida (more in North Florida) but I've never seen anyone or spoken with anyone whose seen one or had their flock attacked by one down south here.

I did put in two application for Pyrenees/Retriever mixes this morning.

I'll look into that, thank you! I did give them a huge cup of sunflower seeds this AM (usually reserved for the goats). I will have to focus on some enclosure enrichment for the interim.

They're in the duck run currently, pacing back and forth and looking for a way out (but yes, alive <3). I've got your site up and will look at the netting. I was looking at the game cameras this morning, I thought the same thing. As an interim solution, I think I will fence in the immediate...

I really hope so. I've walked the property about two dozen times since yesterday looking for her.

I'm posting this for advice but also just to lament the loss of my Prairie Bluebell and Production Red. I did not know how absolutely devastated I would be. The red especially (named Red aka the Colonel) was the sweetest bird. She would run up and greet my husband when he got home from work. She...

Update: she just got back to me and said they're too young and I'll see something after a week :)