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Thank you matthewschickens for that link which cleared up a lot of confusion for me on the electric fences. I sent the link to my hubby so he can look at it as well! This might be something we can do! Thank you!

I wouldn't mind the guard dog or an electric fence. Are electric fences safe for my dog, cat and kid. I might be a little confused when it comes to the electric fence idea but I thought they were used to keep a dog in so a collar is required? How would that work to keep something out? I will...

Thank you all that have responded. I should clarify that the yips/barks we heard were back in the summer time July or so, we just thought since we never got a good view plus no real confirmation of what it was attacking the roosters though my husband saw it(still dark so not a good view) and it...

Thank you for the offer backdoorchicken. I understand. My husband blames himself for the weak construction of the coup, plus we had some wind from some storms in November and on Friday/Saturday night which did not help. We will tear it down and rebuild it maybe.

It is our plan to shoot it as for trapping I don't know if it is legal around my area as we are in the more rural part of VB but I have other animals and do not want them to get hurt on a trap. I have read that if an animal poses a risk to your livestock it is acceptable to kill it, I'll take...

Not a fox for sure....it stands to tall to be a fox....taller than my black lab. ALso it was almost white with some very slight grey. I suppose it could be a stray dog but when I went on line to see pics of foxes and coyotes it looked a lot like a coyote, it was dog-like. I have seen the...

We leave near the wildlfe refuge so not sure if that matters. I know it sounds crazy but I saw it and so did my husband otherwise we would have blames it on something else for sure. It left nothing but feathers from the bantams.

Good Morning, though I am having a hard time calling it good still. I need to help and suggestions. Here is as much info on my issue as I can think of now but feel free to ask questions. I had over 12 Bantams in our coup and they ALL gone. We have 2 remaining ones only because they sleep in...