Thank you for your thoughts. We're making plans to set out some live traps and field cameras to spot the culprits.
I'm heading to a friend's place in Iowa next week to pick up 5 mature hens. He's nice enough to sell me a few birds.
Hard lesson. We live in a beautiful part of the country...
It's my first season of raising poultry and today we lost 13 of our mature birds. It's my fault because I was free ranging them during the day, but I had no idea that there could be such a significant loss during daylight hours when our family was home.
I left for work at 7:15 and by 11:00...