Recent content by herbalwriter

You all were right! It was a coon. Caught the little booger in the Havahart last night. I'd post a picture but I don't know how to yet. I have caught who knows how many raccoons in my years of chicken keeping. I just didn't know one could do this. I learn something new about those wily...

Thanks for the advice, all. We have a big raccoon problem out here, so that may well have been it. I have lost many a chicken to coons. I wonder, though, how it could have gotten hold of the chicken...I think she was sleeping in the nesting box, and the opening was facing well away from the...

Hello all, I have been keeping chickens for 5 years, and thought I'd seen everything in terms of predators - but this is a new one. I had a sick hen isolated in a dog crate overnight (stupid - I should have brought her indoors). Anyhow, this morning a nightmarish scene awaited me inside the...

Looks like I am not the only one joining today! I have kept chickens for 5 years on a small piece of property on the edge of the woods. It's been an interesting venture and I hope to be able to help others and glean helpful information. Nice to be here!