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    chickens attacked last night

    Quote: Here's a link with photos of different types of hardware cloth. http://www.twpinc.com/twpinc/control/category/~category_id=TWPCAT_14 If you use the small hole type even snakes can't get in but they can get through chicken wire. ok thanks, as far as snakes go all we really have is...
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    chickens attacked last night

    Quote: yea im hoping they do to, i dont have any idea what to clean the wounds with, just water?, koolaid?,ok j/k bout that 1...lol
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    chickens attacked last night

    Quote: well i talked to a trapper the next day too, his 1st idea was mink or weasel, however, the birds that got hurt were sliced, he had mentioned that weasels/minks will kill by tearing of heads and basicly tearing out throats and such only 1 was missing skin, the rest looked like they were...
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    chickens attacked last night

    Quote: ptsd?, as in post traumatic something or another?, i wondered that about 1 for a minute then i thought i was giving them too much credit..lol but 1 never got up after the attack, however i noticed its crap was very green so i shoved her in the house and gave her tetracycline in her...
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    chickens attacked last night

    ok ive heard hardware cloth mentioned many times, i have no idea what it is as far as minks and weasels, i know we have them farther north, maybe 30-45 min drive but noone around here has ever seen any what i know we have, by sight or have heard skunks, lotta skunks dogs hawks eagles raccoons...
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    chickens attacked last night

    mom,wewantchicks! : this may already be in here and i could have missed it,but by mutant chickens do you mean meat birds. i am also new to chickens and had that happen to me, got birds,some where huge and once finding this site, found out i had meat birds. we only had two and after some...
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    chickens attacked last night

    ok ill agree chicken wire isnt the strongest however, heres a pic of my coop along with the 2x4 frame i have screwed furring strips so the chickenwire cannot pull out, also since this last attack i have now put up 2 foot plywood along the entire bottom of the coop o also, the chickens, mainly...
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    chickens attacked last night

    well i know it asnt a hawk this time, we lost 1 to a hawk but now its fully covered, only 1 inch holes in the chickenwires
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    chickens attacked last night

    ok im new here so hello all but what made me jump in is i had a few, well a bunch of chickens attacked last night to fill yall in, in new to chickens and coming up fast in the area of chicken predators unfortunately, lost 1 to a hawk and 2 to a skunk and 3 more i have no clue about, but so heres...
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