I'm looking into aviary netting to cover the whole area...I have a 40% shadecloth for my garden but it's no large enough.
What do you know about the flight feathers clipping? Would that help until the put on more weight?
Well if have an enclosed coop/run surrounded by a larger fenced in area. The fence is 4' and the area it encapsulates is about 1,200sqf. There is 18" of 1/2" hardware cloth buried below the fence around the area. There is a pretty good tree canopy to hide them from aerial predators but nothing...
They are in an enclosed coop with a smaller run at night, then I let them out to free-range during the day until dusk. Then they go back in the enclosed coop/run for the night.
I believe the eaten bird "flew the coop" over the 4' fence around their larger "open" run area.
I found her outside...
New member from South Carolina. I have 3 Astralorps and 4 Cream Legbars...
I had 4 Astralorps but unfortunately one got eaten by...what I believe was a raccoon or possum.
2 Of the Astralorps are roosters and the Legbars are all hens. The one Astralorp that was eaten was a hen...RIP