predators

  1. carlyducks

    Hawks- Please help

    My ducks were out free ranging with me this afternoon, and I was literally sitting 3 feet away from them scrolling through my phone when a hawk swooped down so fast. All 4 of my ducks scattered towards me and were trembling. The hawk pulled feathers out from one of them, but luckily that was all...
    • carlyducks
    • Thread
    • duck ducklings ducks hawk hawks help net nets predators suggestions
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Ducks
  2. AudieWarren

    Bobcat.... Maybe?

    found one of my bourbon reds this morning partially buried. We know for a fact bobcats, foxes, and coyotes are in the area. Last week a turkey was killed in broad daylight. He was still when we found him. Now we found a Jenny partially buried. I'm almost certain it's a bobcat. I just want to...
  3. DaWookie

    Meet the birds you people helped raise (2 months in newbie)

    Howdy BYC, ive been lurking around for about 4 months, and have just put my 2 month old birds outside into their long term coop. I figured now was a good time to show off and get some feedback on my coop and some other basic clucking questions. my girls are currently living in the coop for the...
  4. jayewallace

    What predator could have killed my chickens?

    this afternoon some time between 2:30 and 4:00 pm something ran through and managed to kill 2 of my hens and my guinea. There were not taken though. 2 of them had large bite marks, chunks missing, and one ripped open with intestines out. 2 more of my hens are missing. They were spread out with...
  5. queengallina

    Please Help! Chickens Dissappearing Without A Trace

    Over the past few days, my chooks have gone missing! Almost every night when I go to close the coop, a chicken is missing. No feathers, blood, nothing. It's like they just vanished. I see one during the day, and at around 8 when im out to count them, it's gone. I'v lost 7 bantams, and 2 large...
  6. Western North Carolina

    Gauge and layering of wire for run in WNC?

    I'm about to build a run for my bantams. I keep reading horror stories, so have researched a lot about predator proofing. Where I live it is forested and there are hawks, weasels, minks, racoons, possums, bobcats, neighboring loose dogs, coyotes, and occasional bear. I have never seen a bear...
  7. Chook to chook

    Retriever may have eaten fake eggs!

    Ok, so here is the scenario... Our chickens free range and decided to make a nest in the brush outside. We discovered it and took the eggs but replaced them with two fake eggs hoping they would continue to lay there and not find new place that we might not find. We live in the mountains /...
  8. Mixed flock enthusiast

    How to more safely free range guineas?

    Hi All, we hatched 15 guineas that are now about 10 weeks old. They’ve been raised with chickens and ducks, and they’ve all been in a coop/run for 6 weeks. My intention is to free range the guineas (maybe with a rooster/hen) and have them come back to the coop at night to roost. For three weeks...
  9. paigespeeps

    Under the run

    Hi all :frow So I've been dreaming about chickens for years, and am finally moving to a town that allows them! :celebrate I'm just now in the designing stage and could use some suggestions. We have a TON of predators. Our house is next to a cornfield and grain elevators so field mice are a huge...
  10. D

    My baby chicks

    Hi, I’m new to hens and my broody had chicks a couple of weeks ago. At the moment, we don’t have the right coop to keep predators away from baby chicks, so we’ve separated them from their mother unfortunately, and we’re hand rearing them, as some predators have sadly killed the other chicks and...
  11. Mixed flock enthusiast

    Only a pile of feathers left-help ID predator?

    Hi All, we are fairly new to poultry ownership, with 2-5 mo old chickens, ducks, and guinea fowl. They are in a secure coop with a run surrounding it. We live in fairly rural Oklahoma with prairie and oak forest bordering the coop, so predators include hawks, raccoons, coyotes, foxes, bobcats...
  12. IamRainey

    Rats inside my run!

    I went out to shoo my 5wo chicks into the coop tonight because they don't follow the hens up there. They just hunker together down in the darkness. So I'm out there in the run and I sense some movement. Up in the framing for the roof there are 3 small rats just waiting for their moment! I...
  13. S

    Run Materials Question

    Long story not very short, here. In the past, we've built our runs with chicken wire extending down into the ground and along parallel to the surface a foot or so down. When we were out west, we didn't have any large wild rodents, skunks, coyotes/wolves or predatory snakes to worry about, just...
  14. K

    Coop INSIDE a larger barn- chicken wire?

    We are planning a 25’X40’ open coop inside our metal pole barn. I’ve been stalking this site for all things chickens and have found so much info!! My question is - can we safely use 3’ high pallet walls around the bottom of the coop, and then use chicken wire from there to the ceiling 9+ feet...
  15. KHBaker

    Raccoon Issues!

    Today was the first time that my husband and I have seen a raccoon on our property. It was around 6am this morning, and once the raccoon saw our chickens out (we have 6 sex link hens), the raccoon started gradually getting closer. I put the chickens up at 6:30 to get ready for work, but went...
  16. N

    Baby Chicks Dead - Not Sure What Happened

    I am brand new to raising chickens. We moved to a house with 2 acres that already had a chicken coop. Since our three year old son is obsessed with animals we bought him some chickens from Tractor Supply at Easter. We bought 8. One died after a couple days and two got eaten by the dogs before we...
  17. ColleenRyan

    About to move my duckies outside...

    hi guys! So I incubated and hatched 6 ducklings this spring. They’re my little babies but they’re getting big now and I’m moving Them to their hutch outside soon. I have a secure hutch for them to be locked in at night. The whole area is going to be fenced in for them during the day. Hardware...
    • ColleenRyan
    • Thread
    • duck ducklings hutch outside living predators protection
    • Replies: 22
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. C

    Help finding the weak spots

    I apologize in advance for the copious use of pictures in this post. I am hoping to find help in determining the weak spot in my coop/run. The history is this: My son and I turned the play house / swing set into a coop and run about 5 years ago. One of the design flaws as far as I was concerned...
  19. A

    What can I do?

    So something went through my chicken wire to get to my chickens last night? It pulled one of my younger chicks out through it and killed her. What kind of predator will break chicken wire to get to my chickens? Is there something I can do to keep them away, will a stronger wire help or an animal...
  20. jimwaltman

    Stop predators tunneling under the coop walls

    Coop is pretty well protected except at the bottom of the walls. What can i do to keep animals from digging under bottom of walls? Thanks
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