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  1. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Oh that is so sad, I am sorry. I love that my boy plays with my chickens, he often stands there while they just mull around him he looks bored. Happily he never hurt any of them. Our problem here is hawks and foxes.
  2. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    My hen just broke her wing and i was told to keep her isolated for awhile. I have learned from experience that they will not lay eggs if they have just been traumatized. At least mine doesn't. Mine won’t even go in the coop so she is isolating herself,I don’t know if it is on purpose or she is...
  3. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    (prĕd'ə-tər, -tôr') n. 1.An organism that lives by preying on other organisms. 2.One that victimizes, plunders, or destroys, especially for one's own gain In defense of man, this is not a description of a human. We kill systematically for food. Normally, and there are exception, man eats...
  4. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I lost another last night, somehow a groundhog got into the coop, now groundhogs do not eat chickens, so he must have gone in to eat their food and then scared my girls, one hen got a broken wing. She was in bad shape, I could not catch her to fix her wing and she hid under my very low deck. I...
  5. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    That chickenguy: Wow what a story so happy your chicken fought so hard to save herself. Labaze: Man is not a predator: It is called the cycle of life: hawks kill to survive, man kills to survive. If no one ate animals we wouild be over run by them, even if we did not encourage their growth.
  6. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Well first of all, for me, I believe that hawks are just part of the circle of life, they have to eat to survive. If that means eating our chickens then I cannot fault them, that would be me like me getting mad at you for eating a hamburger. It is their food. Of course I do not like it and I...
  7. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I am so sorry to hear all the loses of your precious chickens. I lost two this year also, I believe it was a fox, do racoons come out at night? one was a hawk I saw that one, those were my only in about 4 years. I guess I am very lucky. The fox found a way to get in to the coop, I was remiss...
  8. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Oh that is horribly my dog plays with my chickens and protects them, it is funny. Isn't there anythig you can do, dogs are supposed to b on leashes, doesn't that count in your area? In NJ we just aqhd a terrible storm, as it started to hit I tried to get my girls in th coop since I had new...
  9. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Hal, you are 100% correct, unfortunetly. I was a vegan ofr 5 years then a vegetarian for about 12. Now I feel I deserve to eat meat now and again, I do eat mostly chicken. I do feel guilty a bit when I do. I know the chicken "farmers" are starving also. But ikt still doesn't mean we ahve...
  10. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    You are right, it is the way the poor things live before they die is what upsets me. I even understand why hawks and fox etc kill. But for the intelligent man to treat their food that way is deplorable
  11. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Can't you put all of them in your "Max Security"? I would think if you lose all those birds at one time it might be cost effective to do so. I have only lost one hen since I started and that upsets me, I cannot imagine losing 30 that must be terrible on you. Whether of not they are slated for...
  12. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Hal, even though I have a small Pug dog, I feel a little safer also, I live on a wild life preserve so i get my share of animals trying to enjoy the chicken feed etc. Problem is I cannot kill them they are protected by law. I think not only the baking but the urine and feces and hair that out...
  13. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    That is too bad Hal, I have a dog and he is my girls' protector he saved one from a hawk once, the hawk had the chicken in his grip. He is now the king of the Roost so to speak he goes out on the deck and looks around as if he is the top dog, he is a pug. He eats all raw meat and his favorite...
  14. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Oh what a shame, but you did what you had to do to keep your girls safe. It is sad they are only tryng to eat. Can you do something with the mink pelt so it is not a total waste. I understand why the fox and the hawk came after mine but it still is upsetting. Mine came in the middle of the night...
  15. Churkenduse

    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I have had my girls for over three years, once a hawk got one and my dog, a pug no less, jumped him and saved her. He is now the king of the chickens. :o) Last week I lost my first little girl she was half bantam and half Polish, she was so cute. I live on a wildlife preserve an never had a...
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