My pen is not enclosed. I was planning on redesigning it in the spring due to a construction project that's going to happen where the current pen sits. I'm a bad chicken dad. I've done the catch and release in the past but this varmint drew first blood. He came back too the next night but my...
Darn ground is too froze to dig a proper grave so I chucked em in the trash bin. I will surely know if it is a coon if that dirty diaper eating chicken killing heathen tears up my trash bin too.
Oh your hind sight is impeccable. Kick a man for his stupidity as he mourns why don't ya?? Was it you?? Was it??????????? They didn't deserve this!!!!!
I doubt it. This was a cold and calculated vicious attack by a heartless blood thirsty tyrant. Bridget and Furious probably flew the coop as Mrs Dabs had her head torn clean off only to be tracked and hunted down and torn apart in a feather flying tornado of violence and pain. They will be...
I've have yotes in the area a year ago but they've been non existent since a road work project. It could be but they typically would eat them and not leave em laying around
I've caught several coons hangin around under my deck near the pen to steal food at night but never any attacks. Its been cold here but not terrible. I'd think there'd be lower hanging fruit for coons.
I came home from work to find one of my four chickens missing, one headless in the pen, another cowering in the food barn under the feed tray and the last one headless and 1/4 eaten in the yard. My pen is roughly 10x10 with a 3-3.5 foot high metal fence around it. I live in the Chicago suburbs...