I've been lurking BYC for awhile, but I decided to make an account in light of getting some new birds soon.
I live in NC, in the Triangle area, and this will be my third year raising chickens. I've had two separate flocks, and sadly, one one of the second is living, with heavy predator attacks...
Thank you!
I don't have a camera to set up that can hold a charge through the night, so in the case of the traps not working, or whatever it is being too big, I plan to stay up with a shotgun at my side at the expense of school. I'm way too mad at this thing to let it go until I've got a pile...
New member, orange county here!
Recent weather and desperate predators have been extremely unkind this week, leaving our flock down to one tough survivor. We are getting ready to raise a new flock of chicks, as we do every time at this point of the year.
I've been lurking BYC for about two...
Something vicious is attacking my chickens, and where opossum seems the most likely, it's also somewhat of a stretch.
We've had predator problems for the past two years, and had a flock of 8 get wiped out--always during the night, where they'd simply disappear from the pen, or found without...