I am looking into some security cameras, but they must be able to withstand double digits below zero temps in the winter. the best I have found so far is only good to -4 degrees.
My girls slept up in their coop last night without a problem, but tonight they were very agitated, vocalizing and pacing and they wouldn't go up into the roost area, and stay there. I finally had to put them in the storage box I used for a brooder and brought them into the house, once I got them...
I have never seen a weasel here, but that doesn't mean they aren't around. My husband and I put hardware cloth around all the ventilation openings around the coop. Two of the girls have pretty bad leg injuries... it looks like the feathers have been ripped out, but I don't see any puncture type...
I am definitely closing off all the ventilation gaps with hardware cloth... that is the only way anything could have gotten in. as the coop is in the garage I don't worry about the larger predators and I have only seen chipmunks and squirrels in the garage, but that doesn't mean that there isn't...
I don't know exactly what happened, I had 4 Sapphire gems 12 weeks old. I went in to the garage this morning to let the girls out of their coop and found 1 laying dead and the other 3 standing nearby. They have a 2 story coop with the roost area up top and an attached run at the bottom. we keep...