we have 5 cats to keep the mice down, some winters we let them into the coop; haven't ever lost a chicken to them... but then again, that might be because of their attitude toward chickens; i think they see them as pests not pray. they (the cats) do like the occasional broken egg though...
looks great, but you might want to expand..... people tend to get chickenphilia around here
(philia = love, friendship therefore chickenphilia = love of chickens)
We had a Mink get in our coop last night, i think it might of escaped from one of the mink farms nearby. it killed all our baby chicks (8 in all), all the ones we got last year (10 in all), roughly 30 of our other chickens, two silkie roos (only 7 months and our only roos as we got rid of our...
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No words can truly convey the sadness of one's loss... or the comfort another wishes to pass on....
Hope that you won't lose another,
Knowing that you love the rest.
Hope that God will spare ye sorrow,
That we can share tomorrow's joys.