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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    We have tight fencing everywhere, but found its burrow. It comes up from our neighbor's woods and the hole comes up into our yard.
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    I know. I think it's ridiculous too. This is my personal property, my food, and the lives of my chickens. I should be able to defend those. I do have electric wire around the chicken run around the coop. My chickens had access to a paddock that was a little larger that didn't have the wire. They...
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    They are a "protected fur bearing species".
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    Unfortunately I do not live in Rhode Island. I live in Georgia. They have some strict laws about hunting and trapping down here. You can only trap foxes from December to February. It seems I may just need to start doing that every year. It is sadly true that it is illegal for me to kill it even...
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    Got videos of a fox last night trying to get into the run with my chickens! I believe this was the culprit and that it was just going to come back for them. I read a lot about them doing that yesterday. This fox WILL get the rest of my chickens, which are only 7 now, because it is illegal to...
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    We also did place a camera out there tonight.
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    Exactly! They were safely in their coop last night. It must've happened early this morning as they have an automatic door that opens when it gets light out. We have woven wire fencing all around the area they were in. Each one was found far from the other right up against the fencing as if they...
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    I failed to mention that the first one I found had feathers sticking out of its beak. It was also next to the fence where there were feathers stuck to one of the openings in the wire fencing as if something had tried to pull it through. This would've led me to believe a raccoon, except that none...
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    HELP! What attacked my chickens???

    This morning I found 5 chickens spread out all over their fenced in area. They were all dead. They still had their heads and I couldn't see that anything had been eaten from them. They also didn't look mauled though. There were feathers in bunches everywhere. The chickens were intact, with only...
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    Unexpected death, no apparent previous symptoms

    And I walked around checking for puddles. I don't see any, but it doesn't mean there weren't any the other day that could've dried up now.
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    Unexpected death, no apparent previous symptoms

    Yes, they have their own waterer, out of the sun, with the spouts that you push the button and water comes out. It's also go a cover. They just got into the sheep waterer. We've made it impossible to get to now.
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    Help! 3 Dead Chickens!

    Mine might've had access to algae! That might be a good thing to check for! Any standing water? Containers that filled up with rain and then sat?
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    Unexpected death, no apparent previous symptoms

    There was one hanging out in the coop...haven't seen that today that. Could've been that chicken. She would sit on the roosting bars. I saw on another post something about algae poisoning. They did drink from my sheep's water trough, but haven't had access to that for over a week now. We clean...
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    Unexpected death, no apparent previous symptoms

    My chicken was only about 2 years old. I do not have her body, I was concerned about disease so we disposed of it. We did inspect it before disposition, and before she died as much as possible. We couldn't tell much about the crop by the time she was sick, she was very limp and it was difficult...
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    Help! 3 Dead Chickens!

    I'm sorry I have no good answers for you, because this just happened to one of my chickens. All seemed fine, then went to check on them and she wouldn't get up. Lethargy was the only symptom. Comb/wattle was bright red. No egg stuck in the vent. She died that night. I hope someone else can...
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