I have started to sit in the yard with my hens. We had a fox get into the fenced yard and kill 8 of my hens and injured one. We are now going to run an electric fence around the other fence. So sad
I'm pretty new to this forum and this is my first time posting anything. Just a funny story about my girls. I woke up to snow this morning and went to the coop to let the girls out to free range (in a fenced yard). I opened the little chicken ramp and the girls come piling out the door, get...
I live in a very rural area as well. We had a lot of bear activity over the summer and the thing that we heard to protect the chickens was an electric fence. One of our coops is very secure...it is actually a Amish-made shed converted into a coop. There is a solid floor and locking windows...
We lock our coop every night even though we have a fenced area for the girls. We have a lot of predators in our area. If we are out of town over night, we hire a gal to come to our place to take care of them (and the four cats too).