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Bobcats are often spotted.

I see fluttering insects that make white trails across the lens and have seen beams SORT OF like this, but never with a deer around paying any attention. Maybe the deer is an entomologist. That would explain it. I bet that’s what it is.....

I hate unexplained things. But I guess this will have to stay in that category. If this were a person with a flashlight, that doe would be in the next county. She seems curious and unafraid. It’s nuts.

My guineas fly out of the pen and free range as well, I keep the predators around here well fed too. Expensive hobby lol.

Well, I thought it may be about average, but I haven’t done the math, just noticed I’m a lot lighter in the wallet these days. I buy 5 50lb bags of mash and 5 of scratch every month or 5 weeks and keep it in front of them 24/7. They seem to waste very little. 10 bags a month at around $13.00 per...

I have no idea? Insect in the dead of winter? Deer interested in insects? No clue.

Usually a buck rub is smoothly worn down, as though the tree has been sanded down. This looks almost like the tree has been gouged with something, or torn off with claws? Or metal? If a whitetail did this with his horns I hope I am up a tree when he comes by lol.

And vice versa, I have heard hawks making blue jay calls, for whatever reason.

My coons are too busy stealing corn from deer to bother my guineas. I suppose you can buy them off awhile this way, but when the corn stops the poultry problems will likely start.

I’ve heard of a weasel slaughtering a whole house full of poultry in one night.

I have noticed, over time, that my flock of 20 adult jumbo guineas, 25 six month old guineas, and two adult chickens, appear to be consuming 500 pounds of scratch/layer feed mix every 30-40 days. Is this about right, or are they being pigs? I’ve kept guineas, in numbers up to 75, for 26+ years...

Thanks for your response! Yes, they have all roosted together for several years. I have about 15 guineas and 4 chickens that roost there, minus two now. Perhaps that’s the answer. I guess that means there probably was no way to prevent what happened other than lock them up with no free ranging...

Another strange true tale from the Smith diaries with spouse as a witness. Have you had a similar experience? If you have, can you please explain to me what the hey is going on? Much obliged. Mysteries keep piling up around here. I own a number of guineas and also one very large chicken...

Hawks and owls are definitely protected species, but they are most definitely NOT endangered species in my neck of the woods. THEY do the endangering in these parts lol....rats, mice, squirrels, rabbits...............chickens. Fortunately there are more chickens than humans on the earth. No...

Owl standing on small unused pen, trying to figure out how to access guinea keets. Bright eyed keets likely totally oblivious to the horror less than a foot away. Lost 6 to birds of prey the day before this pic was taken.

We ‘talk radio’ 24/7 in our chicken yard at wide open volume. Seems to work 99% of the time. When power fails for whatever reason, slaughter ensues.

It IS a game (for them) they kill for sport, like weasels. Seldom eat any of their kills.

I’ve never heard of the web of strings, but am going to give it a try, it sounds logical. My chicken yard is too large to cover with netting.

I used to think fox only attacked at night. I learned differently after a few broad daylight kills.

Sounds like a fox with the insides being pulled out. Hawks and owls usually head and neck only, maybe a little shoulder if they have an opportunity to return to their kill. Then again, could have been a little of both predators.