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    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    From reading these replies, it seems like it has a lot to do with geography (here in the Willamette Valley it's raccoons and weasels). We have a good fence (with electric hot wire at the top) and a guardian dog, but an impenetrable nighttime coop has proven to be our best defense method.
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    Raccoon attack

    Thank you so much. That's good information to have. She is a duck and a fairly robust one, at that. She's doing remarkably well with our twice daily alcohol/betadine flush and Neosporin applications. I think she'll pull through without antibiotics, but I'll pick up a bottle from the vet for our...
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    Raccoon attack

    Bernaise, our female Silver Appleyard, was attacked at some point during the day, yesterday. We believe it may have been a raccoon (probably not a weasle since she's full grown) that was subsequently run off by our guardian dog. We treated her wounds (all head wounds) and stabilized her. In the...
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