There is always something that wants to kill our birds All we an do is provide the best protection we can and hope it's enough. Never let your guard down.
Proper precautions is locking them up at night in a secure coop or making the pen very secure which means hardware cloth top bottom and sides. And a hardware skirt at least buried a foot into the ground or attached to bottom of pen and laid a foot on the ground to keep diggers away. Was the...
Yes they will, and a member had a mink kill one of her geese last year. very sorry for your losses I hope you are working to secure your barn now from 4 legged and flying predators.
I saw a very disturbing u tube video of a falcon taking down a Canada goose. I'm thinking even though we have eagles It would be hard for them to maneuver around all our trees. Hawks I do worry about especially once the leaves fall.