The chickens will eat the pool noodle or pipe insulation. We have a split system heat pump for the studio in the garage and look what they do with access during range time (I've fixed this a couple of times, it's obviously due again). Not sure why but they tore through duct tape to get at that foam.
As I understand it, the weasels do their chicken killing at night -- chickens are easy targets while sleeping.
Turkey vultures startle the chickens but they don't harm them. Ditto on the bald eagles if you're lucky enough to have them around.
Hawks are another story. The migration comes...
I have a dog kennel run that gets a lot of larger predator attention. The hardware cloth down low keeps everything out for now but if any of the smaller critters get the notion to climb, the stuff will hit the fan. I'd like to 1) reinforce the upper part with the smaller wire and 2) rebuild the...