predator

  1. si1entshad0w

    What predator is this and how do I deter it?

    I had something (I'm guessing opossum or raccoon) get one chicken early in September - it ate the head and guts only - but hadn't seen anything since until I was examining the chicken coop after coming back from being out of town today. There's what appears to be fresh scratch and bite marks...
  2. Hentooth

    Mystery hen..

    So yesterday my neighbour turns up at my door with an injured, skinny, sorry looking hen.. she’d been for a walk in the forest and found her (it’s England and raining and 11 degrees in the day) so she was pretty beat up.. she looked like she’d been out there a while, boney and flat crop.. and...
  3. P

    Fox problem...

    We have had our 5 chickens for about a year now. No issues with predators up to this point - this weekend one of our girls passed naturally. The next day one was snatched up by a fox and it ran off into the woods with her. I think our coop is very secure - hence not having an issue with this...
  4. BluebirdHomestead

    How to predator-proof this coop. Wwyd.

    Hi there. New around here. Just moved to a 1.5 acre lot that has an existing coop that I’d like to fix up. Wwyd to predator-proof this? I’m in Colorado near Longmont, raccoons, foxes, birds of prey, maybe even a wandering bear. The run just has normal chicken wire on it. Do I need to do a...
  5. T

    Flock Up and Quits Laying...to a Hen

    Thank you for the sticky post and the links. Our flock was being aggressively hunted by the neighborhood bobcat, so we spent over a month confining the layers, the ducks, and the toy box bantams while we baited for the bobcat. When we never caught anything, and news of another neighbor...
  6. BigBlueHen53

    Trying to Foil a Red-Tailed Hawk

    "Well, it's finally, happened, Zachary..." After years of letting my chickens free-range with hardly an incident of aerial predation, a red-tailed hawk has discovered the bounty. Yesterday there was a lot of cackling going which I thought was just a hen and one of the roosters bragging about an...
  7. M

    Pheasant roofing and predator proofing!?

    Hi everyone! I'm building a pheasant enclosure and am wondering what everybody uses as roofing material, and what predator proofing measures you have taken! I'm in the UK so there aren't as many predators as there are in places like the US but I'm definitely not taking any chances. I will be...
  8. famerzellman

    What killed the chicken?

    this morning I went to let out my ladies and noticed one dead BIG hen in the yard (3 years old heavy hen). I coop up the ladies every night and I check around to make sure I didn’t miss any (they free range) Well last night I missed her, and something found her. It looks like it was a chase...
  9. PNWhens

    Free ranging pullets

    I have 4 rhodies that are 5-6 weeks old. I let them run around the yard when I am watching, but am afraid to let them explore when I'm not there for fear of predators. Should I let them run on their own, or maybe put up a netting for protection of some sort? They do have an enclosed run, but I...
  10. Henhaven2090

    What killed her?

    need some opinions here. Been losing a few chickens, it’s never more than one per day. Just find the feathers, but no body. No blood either. It has been at the edges of my property, a couple in the pine trees and one in the field. Some I havent even found the feathers for. I took a pic of the...
  11. Dinosaur Village Keeper

    Feathers, but not sure if guinea is missing...

    We do not have any guinea, but we fenced in 1.25 acres of our yard with a special cat fence (deer fence, curved in like a prison, 3 feet of hardwire on the bottom). As we were building it, the neighbors adult Guineas kept getting in. After the fence was built, we noticed that they would fly out...
  12. slejdad

    My protective rooster (Cockerel)

    We're still new at chicken raising so this was very exciting for us....We got our first five chickens in April and one had been mis-sexed as a pullet. Once Dottie started crowing we changed her name to Dobby and resigned ourselves to having a rooster. Anyway Dobby the barrred rock rooster was...
  13. MattyBowman

    Someone spotted my girls!

    Today in the middle of refreshing the hay in the run, I heard the chickens squawk “what the flock!!!” and turned around to see this guy. He can’t get into the run so it’s okay, but it’s still a little unnerving.
  14. Tilly6

    Lost a duck the other night

    2 days ago one of my ducks was found dead with the head gone. We thought a raccoon. I found where something had dug trying to get into the run that night too. We haven’t caught anything in the traps or on camera until last night. Located in MI, Upper Peninsula. (The time and date on the camera...
    • Tilly6
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    • advice needed ducks fox predator predator attack trap fox
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  15. L

    Raccoon or Weasel?

    The first time it happened was a couple of weeks ago when i ealked out to find one of my hens up against the fence eith its head pulled off. Then two days ago i went out to feed and onr of my ducks had its head and neck almost pulled off but not quite. Then yesterday morning i walk into my coop...
  16. hsrryw73002

    Pile of feathers but no body

    My chickens free range during the day on a fenced-in acre. Found a pile of feathers by the fence which is close to a tree. No body found. This is the second day in a row it's happened. Chickens are mostly 3-4 months old. Happens around 9am the past two mornings. I'm leaving them locked in...
  17. K

    All but one died

    Sorry for the morbid title, but I came home today from a short trip to 4 of 5 of my ducks laying dead in the backyard. I had 4 pekins and 1 mallard. They were about 4 months old and just started to lay eggs two days ago. We had someone watching them while away, but it seems overnight they...
    • Kjbst8
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    • dead ducks predator
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. DuckMama9

    How to keep Owls Away

    I am raising backyard ducklings and there’s an owl(s) in the neighborhood. One swooped down over my flock twice one morning and I had to scare it off. This morning it picked up and took the head clean off of a young dove in my yard! I can’t help but think that could’ve been one of my...
  19. A

    What predator killed my Muscovy ducks? (Graphic images)

    I had three Muscovy ducks set up on my pond. I didn’t feel the need to keep them locked up at night, so I let them roam free. But they stayed in the area. About a few weeks into this, which was a couple nights ago, one of my ducks shows up dead. With just a head, and two wings. I thought it was...
  20. J

    Skunks/predator problems.

    We had skunks that we think live under our shed because we see them walking around in the front lawn every other night. We also have 2 ducks that are about 4/5 months old a male pekin and a female roen duck. The skunks haven't been a problem so far but this morning I walk out into my front yard...
    • Joey6392
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    • predation predator predator attack skunk
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Ducks
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