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There's good tips here for retraining a confused Rooster. Maybe you can try again, we did and are Super happy with him. I make sure to "try and pet him" every day.and grab him off the roost every now and then, and give him treats to show the girls, he does not come close to us. Edited to...

Welcome!! But just hating a bit, "In Australia on the edge of rainforest property" How lucky are you? Awesome to have the tree cover for topside predators! So fun when the chickies have to stand by while yard work happens.

Friendly nice dog like that should be rehomed anyway, call the no kill rescue.

Who owns the fence, sounds like yours? Yep they will need to put something up for darling puppy...

Stinks but, I wouldn't let my chickens out if my back yard wasn't fenced with post and rail and woven wire (it was here when we moved in, people before had BIG dogs, lol Now it protects the chickies from wanderers. I only have minimal daytime predator pressure....too many people in and out...

shame about the bobcat, they are rare. Daytime attack?

Oh darn, hate to hear it. Did she turn up? That happened at my sweethearts when we had just gotten our first chickens. No sound no nothing, no feathers, just gone. She was a little pullet probably 14 weeks? We figured fox because it came back for another the next week.

First, thank you for being open minded :) So good that they have some hinding spots. I too moved into a yard with nothing but 1 silver maple, a fence, tiger lillies and hostas. I planted a tree out back, moved a sapling maple and let some mulberry and weeping cherry "volunteers" (bird...

Awesome! They look so good and healthy. Love your use of PVC. Hey, just a thought, please don't be offended... I can't see the rest of your yard, but around the shed and stuff looks like not much cover. Would you be able to throw a couple cheap shrubberies here and there. Mine really...

BTW, Glad I found this thread. I have nerves and guilt about letting the kids roam the yard all day. At first they were penned when we weren't home, and I let them out when I was, the yard is about 1/4 acre fenced. I was sure any moment a blitzkrieg of predators would descend like Zombie...

Interesting, trying to think like a predator I didn't hear a sound last week night/morning, just pouring rain on the baby monitor and figured, "well, nothing would be hunting in this weather". Yeah, fox got my pullets. I conclude they ARE wise to human activity, they have to be to survive...