You can't always be standing by with a gun. So if you are not there what happens? My choice is keeping them in the run unless they are supervised. My neighbors have been shooting raccoons for over a year. I think he has killed 8 or 9. I have not noticed the slightest drop in population, and...
I will only kill a 'predator' not for simply existing. Snakes, only venomous ones. I lost one to a hawk because I had netting on the top of their run, not wire.
I have a really hard time with people who pretty much leave the buffet open and blame the predators.
When I built my run, I tried to...