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Cats, cats, and foxes. Oh my

Poll Results: What are The Worst in Your Negborhood

This is a multiple choice poll
  • 22% (2)
    Pets
  • 11% (1)
    Birds
  • 33% (3)
    Bears, Foxes, etc...
  • 11% (1)
    Weasel, Fisher Cat, Etc...
  • 22% (2)
    Other
9 Total Votes  
post #1 of 5
4/23/12 at 5:40am
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Cats can climb your fence and kill your little chicks and mabye even some fully grown chicans. Fisher Cats are also bad in NH. Some times you may have a fox problem.

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post #2 of 5
4/23/12 at 9:20am

Most of my recent losses are to hawks. When he's out, one of my dogs does an excellent job of watching for overhead predators and chasing them if they get too close. Last fall, he chased away a bald eagle that was sitting right outside of my duck pen.

 

We've also seen a fox in the distance, but this same dog is happy to do his part to mark his territory and patrol the perimeter. I do think it's helped keep the fox away.

 

He also helps herd the ducks back to their pen at night. He's an English shepherd, and a good example of why some of us like to let our dogs and poultry mix.

Blue & Splash Ameraucanas

Salmon Faverolles

Cuckoo, Blue Copper & Black Copper Marans

Blue Swedish Ducks

Muscovies with a death wish

 

English Shepherds

 

 

 

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Blue & Splash Ameraucanas

Salmon Faverolles

Cuckoo, Blue Copper & Black Copper Marans

Blue Swedish Ducks

Muscovies with a death wish

 

English Shepherds

 

 

 

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post #3 of 5
4/23/12 at 10:58pm

I just heard my babies yelling. I jumped up and saw a red fox in the pen.barnie.gif I yelled and it ran off. So my son and I moved them for the night. This time I didn't lose any. ya.gifThis fox is going to be meeting his maker!

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post #4 of 5
4/24/12 at 12:53am

anybody heard of quolls or ferrets, there quite bad too.

Also people, at our school some people just chopped off the ags chickens headsbarnie.gif

Also i don't know though, may vampire bats kill your birds (we don't have them though)

ANybody had bats kill your birds

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Look in a mirror and then look at the ground. Do this as many times as you want. If somebody sees you doing this gain a point. Remerber the mirror has eyes staring t you, so gain a point. If this thing down here didn't help you, lose a point. If you gain 10 points start again, but look at BYC.

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post #5 of 5
5/14/12 at 4:51pm
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We lost ours and got new ones. A weasel drank there blood. We now have 5 locks on our coop door and roof. 

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