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I’m happy to hear all ideas for keeping chickens inside the fence. I don’t agree with wing clipping being barbaric though lol

Resurrecting this thread but I have some EE young hens and they jump Over my 5’ fence at will. My NHR don’t do it. I tried clipping just one wing and didn’t work so I clipped both wings on the one left in my yard today and I’ll report my results

I free ranged my chickens at 7 weeks old. It was my first time owning chickens and I had placed them in a bad location and they got under some gaps in my fence as youngsters and I’m assuming paid the price with neighbors dog farm although I’m not 100% sure about that, but I moved them to a...

Yeah my chickens are kind of scared of me too but they're all young hens so hoping they lighten up a bit when they get older. I'm the nicest owner too? I even put ice in their water feeder and give them watermelon and meal worms and run misters in this terrible heat? Their coop is high dollar...

Also how many chickens do you guys have in your free range flocks? I currently have 8 hens 4 NHR's and 4 Ameroucanas. Was thinking of adding some buff orpingtons and a couple more Ameroucanas for 12-15 hens. They free range on about 3/4 of my 1 acre parcel. I have 2 coops with total capacity of...

So I free range and have had my chickens for about 3 months now. I lost 2 hens to lord knows what predator because I can't quite pinpoint what it is cause no feathers and have only cats on my trail cams. I think they might have got under my fence and got killed by neighbors dangerous dogs they...

I know that a cat can get over any fence, but I’m just wondering how it can get a full grown hen over a fence too? I don’t have any real gaps in the bottom of the fence. also I’m going to get a black hen to add to the flock, thanks for the tips!

Wow thanks a lot folks for all of the posts! So my coop is predator proof for anything around here with maybe the exception of a really big dog. And the chickens both disappeared middle of the day when I let the hens free range until it starts to get dark. I do leave the door of the coop open...

Thanks for the reply! I’ve set a couple of traps so hoping to eliminate the problem soon. I still think it’s the cat but just hoping not hawks

I also wanted to mention that I really don’t have any gaps in my fence where a cat could even drag a chicken though so I’m dumbfounded by what this could be other than a bird of prey of some sort. The fence is 5’ tall. I will report back if I can figure it out

Hello, so I decided to get some chickens about 10 weeks ago or so. I started with 6 hens and raised them to about 7 weeks old and then turned them loose on my 1 acre of chain link fenced, grass type property. It’s a great place for chickens and I was hoping to let them free range. Anyway they...