@Mrs. K , that's a good idea, I've done that before, put everyone on lockdown for a few days.
Yes... turtles. And I've lost full grown ducks to snapping turtles. Found them, and a chick or duckling a couple times, floating in the pond. Usually just a bunch of feathers, or a wing.
They've...
I'm in NE oklahoma. It's been a wet year, so disease is in the forefront of my mind.
-they're disappearing during the day. Sometimes they show up. But for all intents and purposes, I've lost 7.
I need to build a hutch inside the run, so the adults can come and go, but I can keep the chicks...
Sooo, I've had chickens for 20 ish years. Not a pro, but not new to any aspect either. I've sold eggs, hatched and sold chicks, bought/ raised and sold laying hens, butchered my own meat birds, hatched for others, let broody hens sit, I've had them contained and free ranged.
So when I tell you...