PhantomSlayer
Songster
Were free ranging a flock of 14 and 2 daytime goslings. Usually our worry is toward the skys which we have a good and bad situation. Bad seems to be a bonded pair of red tail hawks. But the good. We have a rather large grouping of crows which seem to go after the hawks when their around so the hawks don't hang around for long.
However today we saw our first wild ground predator lol. With our coop on the back side of our house and a large field in the front separating us from my brother's house I was talking to my mom and out our front window I see a fox cross the field. I've never seen a fox in the day time. It was just crossing. It stopped for a minute seemed to be panting and yawned before continued across. I was standing there watching it. Low and behold my mom was freaking out. To satisfy her I went out and started rounding up chickens and unfortunately 4 of the 14 are still free ranging ignoring us for the treats. It just so happens to be our brahmas and easter eggers that havnt associated themselves with the flock yet.
We need to work on things it seems.
However today we saw our first wild ground predator lol. With our coop on the back side of our house and a large field in the front separating us from my brother's house I was talking to my mom and out our front window I see a fox cross the field. I've never seen a fox in the day time. It was just crossing. It stopped for a minute seemed to be panting and yawned before continued across. I was standing there watching it. Low and behold my mom was freaking out. To satisfy her I went out and started rounding up chickens and unfortunately 4 of the 14 are still free ranging ignoring us for the treats. It just so happens to be our brahmas and easter eggers that havnt associated themselves with the flock yet.
We need to work on things it seems.