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  1. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Wisdom comes with the things we experience in life, both good and bad.
  2. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    She looks very guilty. Sorry for your losses but the labs and mixed labs that I have had in my lifetime could not be trusted around fowl. They have been sweethearts though.
  3. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    By chance, is your BYC avatar the perp? It has a guilty look on its face.
  4. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I understand your sentiments as there are far too many predators stirring and flying about in our area to free range my chickens.
  5. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Ole Brer Fox made his rounds this morning at daybreak around my coops and even lunged twice at the fence at my flock of fourteen large breed hens and one rooster. But he was no match for the 16 gauge wire he threw himself against. It was a handsome example of the predator type though.
  6. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Sounds like a mink or weasel but they are generally nocturnal as are racoons. Foxes tend to take one bird at a time but keep coming back once they find a source of food. I feel for your losses.
  7. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I think all creatures have a purpose but like you do wonder about raccoons. This week I have also had a predator hanging around my property that I have never seen up close and personal before, a Bald Eagle. Luckily, my chickens are in secure coops/pens or they would be in serious jeopardy...
  8. Chicken Heel

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Crows will definitely take baby poultry and other baby birds as they are opportunists but the ones around my place also keep the various hawks on the run so they are okay with me.
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