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    Massive chicken ambush

    We are in the Hudson Valley area of NY (north of NYC by 90 miles.) We have 12.9 acres, 3 of which are landscaped. I am wondering if I should leave the carcasses in hopes of catching the predator red-handed or depose of them. Unfortunately I won't be home most of the day to keep an eye out if I...
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    Massive chicken ambush

    Those remaining 4 girls are locked up like Fort Knox. Not coming out until I solve the mystery and take precautions. Thinking an electric fence top and bottom are on my to-do list.
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    Massive chicken ambush

    My 9-year-old son made a very upsetting discovery this evening. Of our 14 fully grown chickens, 5 totally disappeared today and 5 are dead but visibly intact from what I can tell at night. (I will investigate the carcasses better in the daylight.) The birds have a secure coop but free range...
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    Options for cramped run...predator protection during free roaming

    I can just see your little boys in a line, guiding them to the free range area :lol: Or the three of them chasing the flock while waving their arms madly like escapees from a mental ward... oh, and screaming like the wild animals they are. But then again, what do you expect from 5, 7 and 8...
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    Options for cramped run...predator protection during free roaming

    Wow, I already have a lot of good ideas from the responses. Thanks! First, I picked up a little Rhode Island red rooster today. He was being raised in the same group where my 7 assorted hens I purchased yesterday came from. He is about 8 weeks old. Very sweet, docile little fellow. Only got one...
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    Options for cramped run...predator protection during free roaming

    Okay, so I have multiple questions I need help with. This is an amazing forum with so many educated folks helping out! Here it goes... Started out with 8 chicks last year. Lost 3 girls over the summer / fall. Did well with the 5 remaining during the winter, kept decent egg production and...
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    I Need Pictures of LADDER ROOSTS and What would you use?

    Does anyone know from the pictures posted by Chicken Boo at the start of this thread, what the black, plastic trays are? I'm guessing they might have something to do with gardening, plant / soil containers? I'm trying to find a similar product to build some manure boxes under our roosts. Thanks!
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