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Well, I haven't been on here in a bit. We had a terrible attack in two of our pens, three days apart about a week and a half ago. The first was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO awful. I lost one of my blue mottled hens & a black mottled hen, had another (black) get beat up pretty bad & lost about 15- 1-1/2week old chicks, several 6 week olds & 4- 3 month olds. It was total carnage in the pen and needless to say heartbreaking.
Of course, these were all my beautiful bantam cochins. I was having such a great breeding/hatching season & lost two very nice (costly) hens. Of course, I guess the shock has stopped all egg laying & right now I'm not sure I even want to go there again with hatching anymore for a bit. Right now my priorty is just to get the few little ones I have left grown out.
We've been VERY BUSY reinforcing, even more & we have caught one coon so far.
The surviving hen is doing really well & healing nicely but just yesterday I had to seperate her because I guess Buddha realized she was feeling better and started mating with her again, thus opening up her wounds! She really took a hard hit and lost a huge chunk out of her back, no skin left, down to the muscle/meat about a 2x2in size are or maybe bigger. Just don't like her being put up no by herself but it's for the better until she completely heals.
Both attacks happened on rainy nights so I am now nervous when it rains but I hope the additional steps we've taken will prevent anymore intruders.
We've been VERY BUSY reinforcing, even more & we have caught one coon so far.
The surviving hen is doing really well & healing nicely but just yesterday I had to seperate her because I guess Buddha realized she was feeling better and started mating with her again, thus opening up her wounds! She really took a hard hit and lost a huge chunk out of her back, no skin left, down to the muscle/meat about a 2x2in size are or maybe bigger. Just don't like her being put up no by herself but it's for the better until she completely heals.
Both attacks happened on rainy nights so I am now nervous when it rains but I hope the additional steps we've taken will prevent anymore intruders.