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  1. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    some suggest marshmallows, i used (storebought) chicken legs. all I trapped was my own cat. Good luck... sorry for your loss(es) hope the hen turns up from a good hiding spot.
  2. cheeka

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    MamaDoodle, we learn as we go along, sometimes the hard way... I think it's weasels that rip off heads and drink blood... but coons do it too... (the head thing) I'm so sorry for all your losses and trials, but it sounds like you've covered all the bases this time!
  3. cheeka

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    wow tenhens, that's seriously close! their strike will kill, not that it would have gotten away with your bird with DH right there, just landing on it is enough... I'm glad all are safe! bringing the outside in is a great method. when it's used throughout their run, it's known as the Deep...
  4. cheeka

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    colburg, got any pics of that? that's wild! as flimsy as chicken wire is... wouldn't the shepherd be able to go right through it? I'm lucky up here, most of my neighbors have hounds, who are mostly interested in rabbits... also, most of my neighbors have birds of one type or another, so we're...
  5. cheeka

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    nice setup Too Fast! my dome hasn't been penetrated in the slightest, so the pop doors to the coops stay open as well, it's so much easier that way... the human door is locked at all times, unless we are all out enjoying the day. I've never heard of a hawk getting in the .5" x .5" hardware...
  6. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    lcr123 gives a piece of very good advice. wait til the sun is fully up and predators are mostly back in their beds, but they wake before dusk. they are bold, opportunistic hunters, they may have the skills to catch much faster food, but they will always take the opportunity for an easy meal...
  7. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    Araucana16, the critters that can chew through chicken wire are mostly nocturnal, so if your birds are cooped at night, they would be safe, you would just need to inspect your run regularly for intrusions, chicken wire will keep a hawk out if it's covered... cloudy days does bring out the...
  8. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    JordanFamily, sorry for your loss, coons are bad news... good plan to lock them up at night... Love the video clip on your avatar, very funny! lcr123, sorry for you loss as well, so unfortunate that you were doing a good deed and paid the price with the loss of a nice pullet. Hopefully your...
  9. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    I love Mastiff's ~ like super enormous Pugs that drool. I always wanted one.
  10. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    the folks up here in the northern Catskills love the GP's as well, great protectors of flocks, herds... used to be the Aussie Shepherd in the lead of popularity, but in the last few years, that has shifted enormously... Aussie's are great for herding, but the GP are better at defending and...
  11. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    goshawk...? i have photos in another program, i'll have to dig them out later... see if it looks like it... they are smaller, darkish... I took a foolish risk, thankfully it has a quiet and happy ending... i took a section of hw cloth off the portable run... and used it on the apple crate...
  12. cheeka

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    Mimiko, I'm so sorry to hear, it's tragic to lose our friends, Nim Nim was a pretty girl, I have a dark torty, named Min Min, just thought I'd share that twist on color and letters... Eagle Eye was also a pretty girl ... I love BR's, they are such personable birds. your daughter is beautiful...
  13. cheeka

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    I have one feral cat... it makes very strange growling noises, so it's recognizable immediately... this year, he looks like he might have found a "home" because he sure looks in better shape, he's long haired and was horribly matted, now he looks cared for but still stalking the hill and gully...
  14. cheeka

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    PolloBaracho, I'm so sorry to hear of your loss, a chicken home needs to be Fort Knox, and even still... might be penetrated... I inspect all the area around my enclosure for signs of tracks, digging... there's not much area left that's open with the maple tree trunk lining the edges over the...
  15. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    I do hear you... I am like you, not into unnecessary killing, love all animals, can't even be too angry with the fox that took my 2... even tho' there is a lot of food for the fox besides our feathered families, we 3 families that live here year round all lost birds, my neighbor a duck and the...
  16. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    LaynaDon95, holy moly! what a nightmare you've endured... hope those moving neighbors move quickly... and Lady is one dang lucky dog... there is not one resident on this mountain top who would not have shot her by now. We all hope you can keep getting peaceful sleep!
  17. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    Salmonslayer76, I am so sorry for your losses. I know exactly how you feel... I know that mine were taken by a fox. I still have Lily's tail feathers, that's all I ever found of her. I did find some of Barney's feathers, normally shed ones.... after I mowed the lawn where the portable run...
  18. cheeka

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    just for now the sides of the apple crate coop are blocked by "stuff", i left it exposed just for the photo. tomorrow afternoon I will put hardware cloth on the two sides that have slats. the back of the coop is solid wood, and the coop has a full floor, the walls go all the way to the ground...
  19. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    the spaces do look large, but they are not really, and this coop was used for years in heavy coon territory with nary a loss... but i did think the same as you... the 2 roosts that are inside are each about 3 boards in and run parallel to the wall behind (on the right), so there is no way to...
  20. cheeka

    Tell How Predators Got Your Chickens. Save Somebody Else From The Bad Experience

    yea! the second coop is laced in and secure at least enough for today. I will lace just about every square, and I have a wheelbarrow full of large flat stones to lay on the skirt as well as a few more chunks of maple trunk.
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