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I had adopted a real mean rooster without knowing his personality. He was so mean that he would attack anybody at any time. My kids stopped going out of the house. One day I was picking up eggs from the floor and heard some rustling. When I turned my back, that rooster was in the air exactly...

Good for you (really). But you can't judge us for protecting our birds in OUR OWN backyard. You say that animal is doing what its meant to, and I am doing what I'm meant to. Foxes are extremely smart. Smart enough to understand that they shouldn't be in my backyard, terrorizing my chickens. Last...

I know that feeling very well. I had woken up to the screams of my chickens. When I went to my backyard I saw feathers everywhere and dead birds scattered around the yard. Of course there were other attacks too, but this is just one example.

I'm not looking for your support, my friend. You do what you see as fit to protect your flock and I'll do what I see fit to protect my flock. My brain is programmed to protect my birds in the way I think is proper. So have our ancestors as far back as we can trace ;)

You can lay hardware cloth on the immediate outside perimeter of the run like a carpet. Then secure them nicely to the ground in any way you can. Throw some dirt on it and let some grass grow. That's what I have and no raccoon, skunk, fox has been able to make it through.

Wild animals are part of nature and I am a part of nature, as well. Just like the rest of the animals in nature, us humans are doing the same thing - protecting our flock - in our territories. I do not just go out and hunt around wild animals because I leave them be. If there's a threat to my...

I have predator proofed my run/coop. If their door is closed, pretty much nothing can get in The run has a steel roof. I built a motorized door that I can open and close with my phone anywhere But when they free range, those dreaded foxes keep coming. After an attack, I have a trap box where I...