dead chickens

Sorry, this is long. It requires some background. BACKGROUND: I live in Washington State, in an unincorporated rural area 10 miles outside of Vancouver. I live with my boyfriend on a 9 acre property with 2 homes on it. The property is owned by my boyfriend's grandparents. They live in...

So my DH decided he would buy me a "chicken coop" last spring from traxmctor supply and put it together for me. During putting it together I thought to myself " it's a very piss poor excuse of a oop because this material is worthless" , but I didnt complain , i was grateful and just fallowed...

Something is killing my chickens. I have lost 5 in a week and a half. The chickens that were killed by this predator all have the feathers and skin on their necks ripped off. I know its not the chickens killing each other. I don't think its a racoon because nothing else is ripped or torn on...

My day wasn't started off on the right nor the left foot, more like on my knees. I woke to finding my coop slaughtered. Just completely slaughtered. A handful of my birds were still alive, around 5 or 6, I'd say. It was a massacre. The gore didn't bother me. The overwhelming feeling that I had...

Today pollygirl21 (my sister) went to check on our neighbor’s chickens. She found 3 dead in the henhouse. Their coop unfortunately is not predator proof, very unstable and insecure and we are pretty sure it was a fisher cat. I hate them so much :mad: We are also sure that one ate our uncle’s...

This last Friday a little boy next door went into my yard to retrieve his football (whole other issue there) and let my dogs out. He told me of it right away and I started trying to track them down. Around 20 minuets went by when I heard two shots. My dogs came running home, covered in their own...