Thanks everyone for the help and well wishes. We've ordered some bird netting to put over the electified pen as a defense against hawks. Hopefully that will help.
Probably? It's the mountains of Virginia. I don't think I've ever seen a weasel around here, but I'd be surprised if they aren't here.
I have seen many large hawks (in fact there was one out there this morning circling our yard), black bears come through all the time, raccoons and possum are...
We are new to chickens and have tried to do our best to keep them safe (electric pen, enclosed run with hardware cloth floor, etc.), but we got sloppy and were letting them free range in our backyard (they seemed so happy to run around out there! :( ). One day, around midday, while they were...
