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Do you have any Roosters? My rooster cut a large wound on the back of one of my hens. It was a cut and not a puncture. A puncture could be fangs or talons. Did this chicken not make into the coup and is it possible to happen in daylight? Most predators come during the dark hours. Owls hunt...

I apologize for starting the post of what to do with predators. I do really appreciate posted opinions and I believe all are correctly stated. My chicken experience is now three years. Learn as you go. In three years we have lost one rooster and one hen to a predator and one egg to a rat...

I have reinforced my fenced coup area to end the free chicken dinner. Most all of these predator animals are eventually killed crossing the road.

We just increased the size of our flock by five new hens. Lucky all chicks were all hens. I finally felt they were ready to go into the main population and coup area with fence. Problem: Something came in somewhat under the fence and through it. The wire fence is buried into the ground but...

Snakes. "Why did it have to be snakes?" Indiana Jones. One thing I have been considering is building a ladder so they can climb to their roost in the rafters but the ladder could also help a varmint get to them. The coop seems to be water tight and I don't see any place for a predator to get...

Some people think it is an Owl, while others believe Possum or Raccoon. Who knows for certain? My solution was to replace the flimsy door to my coop. It was ripped off when I lost our chicken. I now have an automatic door opening at sunrise and setting at sunset. Nothing has bothered the...

What was your trapping method? We have not had a problem since I fortified the chicken house with a vault door or heavy duty door.

Is it OK to reply to your own post? Polar Vortex? Man was that cold. My 24 watt light bulb was not enough to keep the water from freezing. The fix was to switch to a 40 watt light bulb. More heat solved the problem. Concerns? Yes. I believe too much heat could be bad and might cook some of...

Thermocube? Neat device. I learned something new today, because I did not know anything that convenient was available for purchase. Thanks JackE for the great tip. The heat is on!

Our chicken water froze a couple of weeks ago and I built a cookie tin heater in no time. The construction would have been quicker but I used stuff I had in the garage to build the Cookie tin heater without buying anything. I used an old cookie tin, parts from a broken exterior motion spot...

Two nights ago we had the same thing happen to our Rooster. What ever it was, came into the coup by ripping our flimsy sliding door off and pulling out our little Mille Fleur Cochin Rooster. He was taken from the coup and his head was eaten off. A week ago, we did see a small fox prowling about...