I respectfully disagree. When I began ranching on my Grandparents place, I know there had not been chickens in the area for more than 30 years. And my predators, coons, coyotes and hawks and eagles picked them off fairly regularly from pretty much the get go. There are almost no people, people...
I live pretty rural, 45 miles from a grocery store, more than a mile to my closest neighbor and not another neighbor for more than 3 miles. The predators of all kind have found my chickens. While they may not have eaten domesticated chicken, they are close enough to wild turkeys, and prairie...